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Zion is a school-management app built for ACE (Accelerated Christian Education) schools. It covers daily Goal Check recording, attendance, PACE grading and moderation, behaviour and homework, library and inventory, meetings, the calendar, communication, report cards, progress cards, admissions, analytics, and billing, alongside a parent portal and a student portal. Zion has five roles: administrator, supervisor, monitor, parent, and student. Each feature area below states which roles use it. See Roles and permissions for what each role can do.

Goal Check and the daily routine

Goal Check overview

Daily PACE goal setting and progress marking for administrators, supervisors, monitors, and teaching staff.

Setting goals

How goals are set for each student before the day’s work begins.

Marking progress

How monitors and teaching staff record what each student actually completed.

The daily routine

The recurring daily and weekly Goal Check routines a centre runs.

Reports

Daily centre reports and weekly school reports generated from Goal Check data.

Export

Spreadsheet and PDF export of Goal Check records, with filters and a full audit trail.

Attendance

Attendance overview

Daily attendance status for every student, recorded by monitors and teaching staff.

Marking attendance

How attendance is marked for a centre each day.

Alerts

Alerts raised for absence patterns that need follow-up.

Reports

Attendance reports by student, centre, and date range.

Trends

Attendance trend views over time.

Grading and moderation

Grading overview

PACE test score entry and the moderation workflow that checks it.

Score entry

How teaching staff enter PACE test scores.

Moderation

The moderation stages a score passes through before it is final.

Retests

How a retest is recorded against the original score.

Audit trail

The record of who entered and changed each score, and when.

Behaviour

Behaviour overview

Logging behaviour incidents and character notes for students.

Logging

How monitors and teaching staff log a behaviour entry.

Reports

Behaviour reports by student and centre.

Homework

Homework overview

Assigning homework and verifying it was done.

Assigning and verifying

How homework is assigned to students and marked complete.

Completion report

A report of homework completion across a centre or school.

Extracurriculars

Extracurriculars overview

Managing extracurricular activities and student interest in them.

Managing the catalog

How administrators add and edit the list of available activities.

Interest and reports

Tracking which students signed up and reporting on participation.

Library

Library overview

Checking books in and out and tracking overdue and lost items.

Checkout and return

How a book is checked out to a student and checked back in.

Overdue and lost

How overdue and lost books are tracked and followed up.

PACE inventory

Inventory overview

Tracking PACE stock levels on hand at each centre.

Receiving and adjusting

How new stock is received and existing counts are adjusted.

Reports

Inventory reports by PACE and centre.

Meetings

Meetings overview

Scheduling and documenting meetings between staff and parents.

Availability

How staff set the times they are available to meet.

Booking and requests

How a parent requests a meeting and how staff respond.

Managing and documenting

Recording notes and outcomes after a meeting happens.

Calendar

Calendar overview

A shared calendar of school events, terms, and holidays.

Managing events

How administrators create and edit calendar events.

iCal subscription

Subscribing to the school calendar from an external calendar app.

Broadcasts and notifications

Broadcasts overview

Sending a message to a group of parents, staff, or students at once.

Notifications overview

In-app and email notifications for events like alerts and meeting requests.

Deliverability and audit

Tracking whether a notification was delivered and to whom.

Report cards

Report cards overview

Generating report cards from grading, attendance, and Goal Check data.

Generating and distributing

How report cards are generated for a term and shared with parents.

Templates

Configuring what appears on a report card.

Permanent record

The archive of a student’s report cards over time.

Progress cards

Progress cards overview

The printable Supervisor’s Progress Card, showing a student’s whole year of PACE work on one page.

Curriculum compass

Compass overview

A view of where each student sits across the PACE curriculum.

Admissions

Admissions overview

Managing prospective student applications from inquiry to enrolment.

Managing applications

How administrators move an application through its stages.

Funnel analytics

Reporting on conversion at each stage of the admissions funnel.

Analytics and insights

Insights overview

School-wide analytics drawn from Goal Check, attendance, and grading data.

Analytics

Dashboards administrators and supervisors use to review performance.

Insight types

The categories of insight Zion surfaces.

Predictions

Early identification of students trending toward being at risk.

Students and PACEs

Students overview

Student profiles, learning centre assignment, and PACE assignment.

Bulk import

Bringing in a student roster from a spreadsheet.

PACE assignments

Assigning individual PACEs to a student.

PACE catalog

The shared ICCE Africa catalog, plus your school’s own subjects and corrections.

Academic terms

How a school’s academic terms are configured.

Organization and roles

Learning centres

Setting up learning centres and assigning supervisors and monitors to them.

Teaching staff and users

Adding and managing every user account in the school.

Roles and permissions

What each of the five roles can see and do.

School settings

School-wide configuration options.

Alerts and reports settings

Configuring when alerts fire and what standard reports include.

Alerts overview

The alert types Zion raises across features.

Corrections and notifications audit

The audit log for data corrections and outgoing notifications.

Billing

Billing overview

Subscription plans, invoices, and payment management for administrators.

Data import and export

Importing data

Bringing existing school data into Zion.

Migration concierge

Assisted migration for schools moving from another system.

Exporting data

Exporting Zion data for backup or use outside the app.

Parent portal

Parent portal overview

The view a parent has of their own child’s progress, attendance, and grades.

Getting started

How a parent signs in and finds their way around the portal.

Your child's progress

Where a parent checks Goal Check progress, attendance, and grades.

Meetings and communication

How a parent requests a meeting and receives school communication.

Student portal

Student portal overview

The view a student has of their own goals, grades, and homework.

Getting started

How a student signs in and finds their way around the portal.

Get started

Quickstart

Set up a school in Zion.

Administrator onboarding

The administrator setup guide.

Roles and permissions

The full permission matrix for all five roles.