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Zebrania speaks up rarely, and only when something happens that you can act on. This page says what actually arrives, what you can turn off, and how to get your meetings into your own calendar so you never copy them out by hand.

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What arrives, and on which channel

There are three channels. In-app notifications always reach you — that is the baseline list and it cannot be switched off. Email and SMS add to it selectively.
A booking confirmation does not arrive by email — booking is immediate and you see it in My reservations straight away, so a separate message would add nothing. Don’t go looking for it in your inbox.
A guardian invitation is the exception: it goes out on one channel, chosen when the invitation is created — email or SMS, not both. See Invitations.

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Reminders before a meeting

There are two reminders, and they do different jobs:
  • By email, the day before — in the morning, so you can plan your day.
  • By SMS, roughly an hour before — so it doesn’t slip your mind in the rush. SMS depends on your school’s plan (see below).
A reminder is a convenience, not proof. If none arrived, it does not mean the meeting isn’t happening — the message may have landed in spam, your school may not have SMS on its plan, and reminders are not what settles the time in the first place. The source of truth is your My reservations list under Booking. Check it if you are in any doubt.
Separately there is the message about a teacher cancelling your slot — the one notification where the channel genuinely matters, because it needs something from you: the slot returns to the pool and you have to pick a new one. It goes out by both email and SMS, and each of those is muted independently — silencing one does not silence the other.

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Choosing channels

Go to Settings, the Notifications section. The switches are grouped into Personal and Schools, and there are exactly four: Saving is confirmed by “Notification preferences saved.”
The name SMS notifications is broader than what it does. That switch covers only the cancelled-slot SMS. The SMS reminder before a meeting cannot be turned off with this switch or any other — there is no separate setting for it.
In-app notifications are not on this list because they cannot be turned off. That is deliberate: it is the one channel that always arrives, so it acts as the fallback for all the others.

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When SMS isn’t available

Texts are a paid service and depend on your school’s plan, not on your own settings. If the school doesn’t have them, the SMS notifications switch is visible but greyed out and inactive, captioned:
Available on a paid plan for your school.
The switch is shown rather than hidden — deliberately, so you know the option exists and what it depends on. Only the school can unlock it; there is no way to buy it for yourself here. The same dependency covers confirming a phone number — without SMS on the plan you’ll see “Confirming a phone number by SMS isn’t available on your plan.”
A school’s SMS allowance is monthly. Once it runs out, the switch still looks active and the texts simply stop arriving until the month turns — with no warning and no message. If SMS was working and then stopped while your switch is still on, ask the school about the allowance rather than hunting for a fault at your end. Email and in-app notifications carry on as normal.

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Subscribing to the calendar

You do not need to copy reservations into your calendar. Zebrania publishes a calendar feed address — a single link your calendar app polls by itself. A cancellation or a change of time reaches your calendar without you doing anything. You’ll find the address under Booking, above the slot grid, in the Subscribe to your calendar section:
Add all your meeting reservations to your calendar app — they stay in sync automatically.
There are two buttons: Subscribe, which tries to open your calendar app directly, and Copy link (“Copied!” once clicked) for when you’d rather paste the address yourself. If copying fails you’ll see “Could not copy the link. Please copy it manually.” — the address is visible in the field next to it and you can select it.
This address is like a password. Anyone holding it can see your meeting calendar — no sign-in, no code, no questions asked. The address itself is the pass. Don’t forward it, don’t paste it into class group chats, don’t publish it in a calendar shared with other parents, and don’t add it on a computer strangers can use. If you want the other parent to see these meetings, ask for a guardian invitation — they will get an address of their own instead of using yours.

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Google Calendar

  1. Open Google Calendar on a computer (the phone app cannot add a calendar from an address).
  2. In the left-hand panel, next to Other calendars, click +.
  3. Choose From URL.
  4. Paste the address you copied with Copy link and confirm.
The calendar appears in the list on the left. Google refreshes such feeds on its own schedule — a change can show up hours later. That is Google’s behaviour, not Zebrania’s.

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Apple: iPhone, iPad and Mac

Easiest: tap Subscribe on an Apple device — the system recognises the address and offers to add the calendar itself. Manually on an iPhone or iPad: Settings → Calendar → Accounts → Add Account → Other → Add Subscribed Calendar, then paste the address. On a Mac: the Calendar app → File menu → New Calendar Subscription, and paste the address.

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Outlook

In Outlook on the web, go to Calendar, choose Add calendar → Subscribe from web, paste the address and confirm.
Always choose subscribe from an address, never import a file. An imported file is a snapshot of one moment and will never update — a cancelled slot would stay in your calendar forever. That is precisely what a subscription avoids.

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What’s in the feed, and what isn’t

The feed holds events you are invited to and the slots you have booked. A reservation disappears from your calendar on its own when you cancel it, or when the teacher does. If something is missing, it is almost always one of these:
The feed carries no location — entries arrive with no address and no room number, even when the school entered one in the app. Check the room under Booking.

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Revoking the feed address

The address is long and random, and it renews itself as long as you use it — it won’t expire under you mid-year. An idle address nobody polls does lapse after a long enough time.
If you suspect the address has leaked — you sent it to somebody by mistake, pasted it into the wrong window, lost a device with the calendar added — you cannot revoke it yourself in the app. There is no such button today. Report it to whoever runs Zebrania at your school: the old address can be revoked and you’ll be issued a new one. Until then, treat the leaked address as a working pass to your meeting calendar.
Revoking the old address means calendars added with it stop updating — once you have the new address you’ll need to add the subscription again, on every device.

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