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A learning centre is Zion’s classroom unit. Every student belongs to a centre, and every supervisor or monitor sees only the students and rosters in the centres they are assigned to. Administrators see every centre in the organization.

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Who can do what

Any other role, or a signed-in user without one of these three roles, is redirected away from the centres pages.

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The centres directory

Go to People & Centres > Learning Centres in the sidebar to see the directory.
Learning centres directory showing centre cards with student count against capacity

The learning centres directory with stat tiles and centre cards showing student count against capacity.

The page header shows four stat tiles:
  • Total Centres, with the active count
  • Total Students
  • Average Class Size
  • Total Capacity
Below the stats, active centres are listed as cards. Each card shows the centre name, description, an Active badge, the student count against capacity, and a View Details link. Administrators additionally see an Active/Archived tab switcher, a Create Centre button, and a Bulk Import button. Supervisors and monitors see only the active grid, scoped to their assigned centres. If no centres exist yet, administrators see a Create Your First Centre empty state.

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The capacity indicator

If a centre has no capacity set, no indicator is shown. Otherwise the indicator on the card and on the centre detail page follows these bands:
Capacity is a soft guardrail. Reaching or passing 100% does not block new students from being enrolled in the centre, it only flags the card and detail page for attention.

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Creating and editing a centre

1

Open Learning Centres

Go to Learning Centres and click Create Centre. Administrators can also open an existing centre’s detail page and choose to edit it.
2

Fill in the centre form

Enter a name (required) and an optional description. Capacity is optional too. Leave it empty if you don’t need capacity tracking for that centre.
3

Set a timezone (optional)

Leave the timezone blank to have the centre follow your school’s timezone, set under School Settings. Set a timezone on the centre itself if that particular classroom runs on a different clock, for example a satellite site in another region.
4

Save

The centre is created or updated and appears in the active grid.

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Adding centres from a spreadsheet

If you are setting up several centres at once, bulk import is faster than the form above.
1

Open Bulk Import

On the Learning Centres directory, click Bulk Import.
2

Download the template

Use the template button to get a spreadsheet with a column for Name, Description, Capacity, and Timezone.
3

Fill it in and upload

Name is the only required column. Fill in a Timezone only for a centre that should not follow the school’s default.
4

Review and confirm

Zion shows you how many centres will be created before anything is saved. A row whose name already matches an existing centre is skipped rather than creating a duplicate, and so is a repeated name within the same file.
See Spreadsheet templates for the exact columns this file expects.

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Archiving and restoring a centre

Administrators can archive a centre they no longer need active. Archived centres move out of the active grid into the Archived tab.
1

Switch to the Archived tab

On the Learning Centres directory, use the Active/Archived tab switcher.
2

Find the centre

The archived list shows each centre’s archived date and capacity.
3

Restore

Click Restore and confirm in the dialog. The centre returns to the Active tab.
The Archived tab explains that centres appear there once archived, so an empty Archived tab is expected for schools that haven’t removed any centres yet.

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The centre detail page

Opening a centre from the directory shows:
  • The centre header with its name, description, and capacity indicator
  • A Teaching Staff panel, split into Supervisors and Monitors sub-lists, with an Assign action
  • A student roster for that centre
Administrators can open any centre in their organization. Supervisors and monitors can only open centres they are assigned to. Trying to open a centre they are not assigned to returns a not-found page rather than showing the data.

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Assigning supervisors and monitors

Assignment is what actually grants a supervisor or monitor access to a centre. A staff member can be assigned to more than one centre.
1

Open the centre detail page

Go to the centre you want to staff, from Learning Centres.
2

Click Assign in the Teaching Staff panel

This opens a dialog listing the organization’s members.
3

Select one or more members

Multi-select the supervisors or monitors who should have access to this centre.
4

Submit

The assignment is saved and the member’s roster access updates to include this centre.
Assigning a supervisor or monitor to a centre from this page has the same effect as assigning a centre to them when inviting or editing their account under Teaching Staff. Either path updates the same assignment.

Teaching staff and users

Invite staff, assign roles and centres, and manage accounts.

Roles and permissions

Layer custom permissions on top of the built-in roles.

Students overview

See how students are enrolled into a centre’s roster.

Administrator: learning centres

A walkthrough of centre setup from the administrator’s perspective.