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Orah Reviews & Product Details

Orah: The Leading Attendance Management Platform for Independent Schools Orah is a comprehensive attendance and student location management platform designed specifically for independent schools. Trusted by over 500 schools across 20+ countries, Orah provides real-time attendance tracking, automated alerts, and powerful insights to help schools ensure student safety, engagement, and operational efficiency. At Orah, we understand the unique challenges independent schools face in managing student attendance and wellbeing. From reconciling attendance records to responding to emergencies, our platform simplifies these processes while enhancing the school’s ability to care for every student. With seamless integration into major Student Information Systems (SIS) like Blackbaud, Veracross, and TASS, Orah ensures that your attendance data is accurate, accessible, and actionable. ‍ What Makes Orah Unique? Unlike general-purpose attendance tools, Orah is designed specifically for the nuanced needs of independent schools. Orah doesn’t just track attendance—it connects attendance data to student safety, communications & engagement, and wellbeing. Always know where students are with location tracking and automated updates. Used by leading schools like Philips Exeter Academy, University School of Nashville, and Nudgee College.

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Boardingware

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Orah Community

Languages Supported

English

Product Description

Orah is the most secure and easy-to-use cloud platform that keeps track of where your students have been, where they are now, and where they will be later, making it easy for you ensure that everyone is safe and accounted for.

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Vincent Paget (Growth Operations at Boardingware)

Value at a Glance

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Time to Implement

2 months

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Orah Media

Orah Demo - Identify at-risk students with Mood Checks

Sometimes students don't speak up when they need help - Orah helps schools address that. Develop emotional intelligence, promote well-being and make school feel like a safe place.

Orah Demo - Know where your students are, in real time

Your students' location information is updated in real-time and consolidated into one place, so you can trust that the information is accurate and confidently account for where everyone is. Features: Roll Checks (Manual), NFC Check-Ins (Automatic), Leave Passes at Attendance Dashboards.

Get a single view of student life activity. Enable a two-way sync with your SIS/MIS, so your data is always up-to-date. Every leave, communication, well-being, pastoral and attendance event is recorded and compiled into a chronological timeline that you can easily filter and search through.

Orah Demo - Leave, Exeat and Event Management

Coordinate, communicate and manage all your student leave and exeat requests, planned events, and on-campus check-ins from one place.

Orah Demo - Stay up-to-date with a live Activity Feed

The Activity Feed automatically compiles everything that has happened into an easily digestible timeline. Just check the Acitivity Feed before you go on duty to quickly get up-to-date with rolls taken, new pastoral records, late students, end-of-shift reports and any other important events.

Orah Demo - Free Orah Notes for teachers & counselors

The secure solution for schools to log behavioral notes for students, and generate on-demand summaries to enable quicker reporting and offer more contextualized support to students. Sign up at orah.com.

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David W.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/21/2018

"3 years in, not looking back"

5/5

What do you like best about Orah?

User friendly for all parties and increased accountability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

Needs a better interface for large TV screens. The old web app leave board allows up to have around 40 students on the screen at once but could do with some refinements / updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Orah:

Easy to implement, functional and will soon become an integral part of your management system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?

Time effective, less paper trail, more convenient for staff, students and parents, access to pertinent records/information on the go Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/21/2018

"1 year user says..."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Orah?

My favorite thing about Boardingware is how it appeals to visual learners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

I dislike that the data for some groups has to be manually entered, as we rotate required dinner table groups and our Culinary Faculty Supervisor has to manually enter 200 names every 2-3 weeks. I also dislike how VASTLY different it looks for Apple products versus Android, making training documents VERY hard to create. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Orah:

Plan a few weeks of training and use time before it becomes live with your students. Very hard to play catch up after a few days of not requiring fac and students not to use it, so give time for getting everyone up to speed or they view it as optional and you spend whole year unteaching bad habits Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are able to care for and keep track of our students and their habits more effectively using Boardingware. The benefit of having information at my fingertips (Staff App) is huge as a person who is mobile throughout the day (no set classroom or office so no desktop or laptop). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/23/2018

"Boardingware = game changer!"

5/5

What do you like best about Orah?

I love the accessibility of boardingware. As a weekend administrator on duty who is also a dorm parent it is so convenient to be on my dorm and to be able to see where all of our other students are or to have access to contact information if we need to track them down. It is also great having the phone app for athletic travel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

I would love to be able to see groups of students signed out together so that we can bettie monitor if they sign back in together or if there are changes in the patters of their travel. This is something we were able to do on our old paper model and it was often influential in monitoring potential disciplinary issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

M P.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/16/2018

"Still getting used to it"

4/5

What do you like best about Orah?

Getting easier. Easy for parents to submit passes. Less wasted paper Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

Parents don't call to confirm plans (need to...just in case students know their log-in). Difficult for parents to get started (different skill level with computers). Binder was easier.

The Boardingware Staff App on my personal phone keeps crashing every time I try to access the requests.

Co-workers aren't as good at figuring it out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ian R.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/19/2018

"Professional and easy to use"

5/5

What do you like best about Orah?

Boardingware is a very professional application that does the job much better than a paper-based system. It is not a difficult programme to learn to use and with the phone app you can even do it on your phone for convenience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

There is nothing I dislike about Boardingware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Orah:

It is a programme that lets you do a lot more in a very small amount of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?

Keeping a track on boarder whereabouts is key. You can always go back and have a look at any rolls done etc. The record is always there! Parents submit leave rather than us chasing up, which we used to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Reany R.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/20/2018

"Working with Boardingware"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Orah?

I like the page set up.Makes it easy to see all students at a glance.Information at your fingertips(no more trawling through pages in folders etc). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

1.If the site crashes need hard copy back up.2.Changes in face page format as it takes a while to familiarise.3.A shared office computer not ideal as logging in and out important to remember especially if personal information is added under the incorrect user name.4.More time sitting at computer not healthy.5.Less personal interaction with clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ken W.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/20/2018

"Versatile, thorough, easy to use"

5/5

What do you like best about Orah?

The software is able to handle all of the ins and outs of boarding school life. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

The ios app and the iPad app and the web version all look/feel different from one another. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Orah:

We did a 3 month trial to see if it was right for us. Give it time. It takes a while to learn all of the features and implement it with your students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Orah solving and how is that benefiting you?

We now provide better service to our boarding families and timely notification of when their child leaves campus for an hour or for a day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jane R.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/21/2018

"Great product, great customer service"

5/5

What do you like best about Orah?

Our staff loves that we can use it from our computers and our phones. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

I hope that someday it will integrate with our SIS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/20/2018

"Great user friendly Boarding School Student Manangement system"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Orah?

We love boardingware as it gives great access and insight to our students movements and needs, also links our families well to keep in touch with leave requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

It changes wuite often the look and sometimes the functions, but once you get used to the new functions or looks they are better than previous. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mark V.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/17/2018

"Boardingware offers all arounf excellence"

5/5

What do you like best about Orah?

An effective, accesible solution supported by motivated and friendly staff at a young, dynamic company eager to learn and grow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

It doesn't sych with PowerSchool but it does with toher whole school information systems, for example iSAMS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Paul Organ of Orah

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Hi Mark, thank you for your review! PowerSchool is not far away - unfortunately it has been hard to get in touch with PowerSchool but we're making progress. If it were up to us this would have been done long ago.

Thanks again - Paul