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A learning centre is the classroom unit in Zion. Students and teaching staff are scoped to one or more centres, so getting centres and staff assignments right early keeps rosters, reporting, and access control accurate. Administrators create and archive centres. Administrators, supervisors, and monitors can all view the centres they have access to.
ACE schools commonly call this unit a classroom or a learning centre. Zion uses “learning centre” throughout the app.

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Who sees what

  • Administrators see every centre in the school and can create, edit, and archive them.
  • Supervisors and monitors only see centres they are assigned to. Opening a centre they are not assigned to returns a not-found page.

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The learning centres list

Zion learning centres page showing centre cards with student count and capacity

The learning centres list with capacity tiles and centre cards

Go to People & Centres > Learning Centres in the sidebar. The page shows four stat tiles: Total Centres (with a count of active centres), Total Students, Average Class Size, and Total Capacity. Below the tiles, centres list as a searchable, sortable table: centre name and description, an Active or Inactive badge with an over-capacity badge if it applies, enrollment against capacity with a small progress bar, and the date created. Click a row, or its View link, to open that centre. Administrators also see an Active/Archived tab switcher above the table, and Bulk import and Create Centre buttons. Supervisors and monitors see only the active table for their assigned centres, with no import or create action.

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Creating a centre

1

Open Learning Centres

Go to People & Centres > Learning Centres.
2

Click Create Centre

This button only appears for administrators.
3

Enter the centre details

Fill in the name, and optionally a description, a capacity, and a timezone.
4

Save

The centre appears in the active list immediately.
If the school has no centres yet, the list shows an empty state with a Create Your First Centre button instead of the table.

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Centre fields

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Bulk import from a spreadsheet

If you have several centres to set up at once, for example when loading a whole school’s classrooms on day one, import them from a CSV file instead of creating each one by hand.
1

Open Bulk import

From Learning Centres, click “Bulk import,” next to Create Centre.
2

Download the template

Download the CSV template. Its columns are Name, Description, Capacity, and Timezone. Only Name is required.
3

Fill it in and upload it

Fill in one row per centre and upload the file back. Zion previews each row as valid or invalid before you confirm.
4

Create the centres

Confirm to create every valid row at once. A name that matches a centre you already have is skipped automatically rather than creating a duplicate.

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Reading the capacity indicator

Capacity is a guide, not a hard limit. Zion never blocks assigning a student past capacity. Use the indicator to spot centres that need rebalancing rather than as an enrollment cap.

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Assigning supervisors and monitors to a centre

Staff access to a centre’s data comes from this assignment, not from their role alone. A supervisor or monitor with no centre assignment cannot open that centre.
1

Open the centre

Go to People & Centres > Learning Centres and click into a centre.
2

Find the Teaching Staff panel

It lists two groups: Supervisors and Monitors.
3

Click Assign

This opens a dialog listing the school’s staff.
4

Select staff and save

Select one or more members and save. A staff member can be assigned to more than one centre, and a centre can have more than one supervisor or monitor.
To invite a brand-new staff member and assign their first centre in one step, use Invite Teaching Staff instead. Monitors require at least one centre at invite time; centre assignment for supervisors is optional there. See Staff management.

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Archiving and restoring a centre

Archiving removes a centre from the active list and from assignment dropdowns while keeping its historical data intact.
1

Open the Archived tab

On People & Centres > Learning Centres, switch from Active to Archived.
2

Find the centre

Archived centres show their archived date and last capacity.
3

Restore

Click Restore and confirm. The centre returns to the active list. If another active centre already uses the same name, rename one of them.
Reassign students to another centre before archiving one, so no roster is left pointing at a centre that no longer appears in active lists.

Learning centres overview

The feature reference for centre structure, capacity, and access rules.

Staff management

Invite teaching staff and assign their roles and centres.

Roles and permissions

How built-in roles and custom roles govern what staff can do.

Student management

Add students and assign them to a centre.