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Changelog

Track the features, improvements, and fixes shipped in Zion.

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Version 1.0.0: Launch (2025-11-22)

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Initial Release

Zion Phase 1 (Micro-MVP) launched with Epic 1 and Epic 2 complete.

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Epic 1: Foundation & School Setup

School Administration:

• School account setup
• School profile configuration with logo upload
• Academic term management (create, edit, activate terms)
• Learning centre creation and management
• Timezone configuration for accurate date and time handling

User Management:

• Role-based access control (Administrator, Supervisor, Monitor, Student, Parent)
• Staff invitation system via email
• Centre-based user assignments
• User activation and deactivation

Student Roster:

• Individual student profile creation
• CSV bulk import for roster setup
• Student assignment to learning centres
• Parent contact information

PACE Curriculum:

• Complete ACE PACE catalog (144 PACEs, 1001 to 1144)
• 12 subjects across 12 levels
• Individualized PACE assignments per student
• Search and filter across the PACE catalog

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Epic 2: Goal Check Intelligence

Daily Goal Setting:

• Quick goal entry interface for all students
• Auto-calculated goal total pages
• Copy previous day’s goals
• Auto-save
• Tablet-optimized touch interface

Progress Tracking:

• End-of-day progress marking
• Actual vs. goal variance calculation
• Optional notes for struggling students
• Color-coded completion status
• Real-time dashboard updates

Dashboards:

• Administrator Dashboard:
  • Today’s school-wide snapshot
  • Weekly trends visualization
  • Centre performance comparison
  • At-risk student alerts
  • Quick action cards
• Supervisor Dashboard:
  • Centre-scoped data view
  • Student progress table
  • Trends for the supervisor’s centres
  • Centre-specific alerts
  • Report readiness indicators

Automated Reporting:

• Daily centre reports (PDF and CSV)
• Weekly school reports (PDF and CSV)
• Centre summary statistics
• Student-by-student breakdowns
• At-risk student identification
• Subject performance analysis
• Trend indicators (current vs. previous week)

Data Export:

• CSV export with flexible filters
• Full audit trail included in exports
• Background processing for large exports
• Export history tracking
• Filters by date range, centre, student, status, and subject

Mobile Optimization:

• Responsive design for tablets
• Touch-friendly interface (>=44px touch targets)
• Native mobile inputs (number pads, date pickers)
• Offline detection with status banner
• Load times under 3 seconds

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Documentation

• Documentation site at docs.zionapp.co
• Quickstart guide
• Administrator onboarding handbook
• Supervisor daily workflow guide
• Feature documentation
• FAQ and support resources

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Since Launch

The following capabilities have shipped since the initial release. Ship dates for individual features are not tracked in this changelog. See each feature’s overview page for current behavior.

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Attendance Tracking

• Fast attendance marking (Present, Absent, Late)
• Attendance dashboard
• Chronic absence alerts, with a cool-down so an absence you have already acknowledged stops re-alerting
• Attendance reports
• Attendance trend analysis

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PACE Grading and Moderation

• Test score entry, single or in batches
• Three-stage moderation (first-line, internal, external), with internal moderation finalizing a score and external moderation optional
• Distinct marks recorded at each moderation stage, so you can see what each moderator awarded
• Decimal scores, so a mark such as 87.5 is recorded exactly as it was awarded
• Activity PACEs that are completed rather than scored, marked done in bulk
• Prior PACE entry for students who join mid-year with work already completed elsewhere
• Automatic PACE completion when a passing final score is recorded, reversed if a correction later drops the score below the pass mark
• Pass threshold enforcement, grade calculations, and a retest workflow
• Audit trail for ACE compliance

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Progress Cards

• Printable Supervisor’s Progress Card showing each student’s PACE journey across the year
• Colour coding by the term a PACE was completed in
• Download as a PDF, or email it to a parent

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The PACE Catalog

• The ICCE Africa curriculum available to every school as a shared catalog, covering the core subjects, Bible Reading, and the full elective and Lifepac course range
• Reading Readiness and ABC shown as separate readiness levels
• Your own custom subjects and PACEs, added and edited by an administrator
• Editable page counts and levels, so you can correct a booklet that does not match your printed copy
• Natural sorting, so a coded course reads 1 to 10 rather than 1, 10, 2

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Report Cards and Records

• Report card generation and distribution
• Report card templates
• Term data compiled from grades, attendance, and Goal Check
• Distribution to parents
• Permanent record archive

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Reports and Documents

• Every generated report rebuilt on one branded design, with charts drawn into the document itself
• Goal Check daily and weekly reports, attendance reports, grading reports, records exports, and student progress reports all download as polished PDFs

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Trend Analysis and Insights

• Time-series trend visualization
• Student-level trend analysis
• Learning centre comparison insights
• Subject-level performance analysis
• Predictive alerts
• Insights types and predictions

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Student and Parent Portals

• Student portal for viewing goals, progress, grades, homework, attendance, and activities, plus the student’s own profile page
• Parent portal for viewing a child’s progress and booking meetings
• Parent invitations sent manually by staff, and revocable, so a family is only linked when the school intends it

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Day-to-Day Operations

• Behaviour records logged from a dedicated entry screen, and editable or removable afterwards
• Homework completion reporting for supervisors and monitors
• Library catalog, checkouts, overdue and lost handling, with per-row editing and stock adjustment
• Booklet inventory, including receiving PACE stock in bulk by subject and archiving items you no longer hold
• Extracurricular activities, with a Person in Charge named on each activity
• Calendar events, editable directly from the bulk agenda
• Meetings, availability slots, and meeting records

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Setting Up and Bringing Data In

• Self-serve sign-up, so a school can create its account and start its subscription without waiting on the Zion team
• Your own school logo, applied across the app
• Bulk import from a spreadsheet for students, learning centres, staff invitations, and library books, each with a downloadable template that lists every field
• Duplicate warnings when a student you are adding looks like one already on the roster
• Bulk grade-level promotion and graduation at the end of a year
• A reason and category recorded whenever a student is deactivated
• Term locking, so a closed term stops accepting backdated entries
• A timezone per learning centre, for schools that operate across more than one

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