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Once a meeting is booked, either firmly or through a request that both sides confirmed, the parent and the assigned staff member can still change it. After it happens, the assigned staff member (or an administrator) documents it with private notes, a parent-facing summary, and a final outcome. Administrators also get an org-wide view of every meeting and its outcome. This page covers what happens after booking. For how a meeting gets booked in the first place, see Booking and requesting meetings.

Cancel a meeting

Either the parent or the staff participant on a firm (booked) meeting can cancel it. Cancelling requires a reason of at least one character. Cancelling frees the linked availability slot so it becomes bookable again, deletes the associated calendar event, and notifies both parties.
A pending request (one still awaiting accept, decline, or counter) cannot be cancelled. It must be declined instead, which also requires a reason.

Reschedule a meeting

Either participant can move a booked meeting to a different available slot. The move happens as a single atomic swap: the old slot is released and the new slot is claimed together, so the meeting is never left without a slot and the new slot can never be double-booked.

Reassign a meeting

Staff can reassign a booked meeting to a different bookable staff member in the student’s learning centre. The outgoing staff member and the incoming staff member are notified separately, so both know the meeting has moved off, or onto, their calendar.

Add a meeting to your personal calendar

Either party, parent or staff, can add a confirmed meeting to their personal calendar from the meeting detail view. This uses the same calendar bridge that publishes other Zion events, so the meeting shows up alongside your other calendar entries.
For how calendar events and subscriptions work more broadly, see Calendar overview.

Document the meeting

The assigned staff member, or an organization administrator, opens the meeting detail page to record what happened.
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Open the meeting

Go to the meeting from your meetings list. Staff use /staff/meetings/[meetingId].
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Autosave private notes and action items

Write private notes and action items as the meeting happens or shortly after. These autosave independently of each other and are never visible to the parent. Saving notes does not change the meeting’s status.
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Draft a parent summary

Draft the parent-facing summary in the same notes editor. This draft is separate from the private notes and is not sent to the parent until you explicitly share it.
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Share the summary with the parent

Choose to share the summary. An empty summary is rejected. The parent is notified only when the shared text has meaningfully changed from what was shared before, so re-sharing an unchanged summary does not send a duplicate notification.
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Mark the meeting completed or no-show

Once the meeting has happened, mark it Completed or No-Show. Only a booked, non-pending meeting can be transitioned this way. Marking a meeting No-Show notifies the parent with a prompt to re-book.
Only the assigned staff member or an organization administrator can write notes, share a summary, or set the completed/no-show outcome. A parent’s view of the meeting is redacted and does not include the private notes or action items.

Administrator oversight

An administrator reviews meeting activity across the whole organization from /admin/meetings, scoped to the centres they are assigned to, or every centre if they have no explicit centre assignment. The oversight view supports filtering by:
FilterDescription
CentreRestrict to one learning centre
Staff memberRestrict to meetings involving one staff member
StatusBooked, rescheduled, cancelled, completed, or no-show
Date rangeRestrict to a window of meeting dates
The view also surfaces four KPIs:
KPIWhat it measures
Total firm meetingsMeetings that reached a firm (booked) state; pending and expired requests are excluded so they do not inflate the count
CompletedMeetings marked completed
No-showMeetings marked no-show
No-show rateNo-show divided by completed plus no-show; reads as 0 when there are no firm outcomes yet

Meetings overview

What a meeting is, its statuses, and who can meet with whom

Booking and requests

How parents and staff book, propose, and confirm meetings

Staff availability

Publishing bookable time slots as a supervisor or monitor

Meetings and communication

The parent-facing guide to booking, viewing, and cancelling meetings