Core Docs - Core Concepts - Manage Campuses

Rock Version: v19.0
Last Modified: 2026-03-30 4:22 PM

Many organizations operate out of more than one location. While there are many terms for these "sites" we've chosen to call them campuses within Rock.

Single Campus
Generally, the display and selection of campus information throughout Rock will be hidden if you have only one campus. If a campus value is required by a particular block, then the single campus you have configured is automatically used (otherwise it’s left blank).

You can create or maintain campuses from Admin Tools > Settings > Campuses. There you'll see a list of campuses that you can manage or add to. Selecting a campus will bring up the campus details screen.

Locations
Before adding a new campus, you must first add its address under Admin Tools > Settings > Named Locations.  

Campus Status & Campus Type

A lot of the setup for Campuses is pretty straightforward, but there are some important points you'll want to keep in mind about the Status and Type fields.

Rock ships with three Campus Status values (Closed, Open and Pending) and two Campus Type values (Physical and Online). These are ready for you to use out of the box as Defined Types. However, these values can't be deleted through Rock and shouldn't be deleted by other means. That said, how you use them is entirely up to you. If needed, you can add new values to the Defined Types lists or change the names of the existing values.

Even if the Type is "Online" you're still required to have a Location value. As with any campus, the Location Type assigned to the Location you choose must be "Campus". If you’re not sure what Location to use for an online campus, best practice is to choose the one most closely associated with the website.

Upgrading Rock?
If you’re upgrading Rock from an older version that doesn't have Status and Type configuration, then your existing campuses will have these values automatically assigned. Any active campus will get a Status of Open and an inactive campus will get a Status of Pending. The assigned Type will be Physical for all campuses, except Online will be assigned if the name of the campus has "online" or "on-line" in it.