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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.

Seller

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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Verified User in Education Management

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/17/2018

"Best New Tool We've Had for the Dorm in a Long Long Time"

5/5

What do you like best about Orah?

Having everything in one place and being able to find whatever I need right when I need it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

Constant look-and-feel and functionality upgrades are much appreciated but occasionally lead to confusion as information moves, gestures/button presses change, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Liz W.

Director of Boarding

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/16/2018

"Boardingware is excellent. The system is user friendly for students, parents and staff."

5/5

What do you like best about Orah?

All records are easily accessible. The system provides the platform for necessary information to be available to all stakeholders through clear processes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

Not being able to customize fields specifically for our Boarding House Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Orah:

I highly recommend Boardingware as a very satisfactory system for managing leave and pastoral processes in a Boarding House Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Security of data history relating to student leave; accessibility of information by parents/caregivers and staff. Boardingware has provided a higher level of interactive communication between Hostel staff, boarders and their parents/caregivers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/20/2018

"Still learning Boardingware"

5/5

What do you like best about Orah?

Parents can view their child's whereabouts. We can see who the 'leave' went through (staff/parents). Everything in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

Language when building forms a little complicated. Rolls could be managed differently as could the Dining room details. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/20/2018

"Very useful and easy to use"

4/5

What do you like best about Orah?

I like that it is relatively easy to use, making it easy for us to account for all of our students. It’s definitely better than managing the students using paper sign in and sign out procedures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

I would like to be able to specify who my notifications are sent to and which ones I receive. I would like to just receive them for my dorm, but not the ones for all the other dorms. It would also be useful if we could message students within the app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Schalk V.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/19/2018

"The ease of use has improved significantly with the updates. "

4/5

What do you like best about Orah?

The ease of access of various rolls. The interface is much more attractive than it used to be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

Still sometimes freezes and I have to restart. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/23/2018

"We really like it!"

4/5

What do you like best about Orah?

Most important for me was the ease that I can maneuver through the app and how easy it is to teach others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

The program seems to send out an auto invite when I publish the event. I would like to see controls and choices before I send anything out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Antxon I.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/20/2018

"Boardingware Experience"

5/5

What do you like best about Orah?

The ability to have all the information of what happens in the dorm in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

I would like to have the ability to send push notifications to students from the app. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Barry v.

Deputy Headmaster - Marketing

Education Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/20/2018

"Keep tabs of your Boarders"

5/5

What do you like best about Orah?

Ease of use, keeps records in the cloud. Secure and security for oneself, parents and staff members Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

Doesn't send a reminder to parents who have not signed out. Need a "repeat" sign out box so parents don't have to do each week, unless they need to edit. Each boy parent should either sign boys out or in, but must happen. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

8/22/2018

"Responsive Customer Service"

4/5

What do you like best about Orah?

They are very responsive to our needs in terms of working with us to develop new features that better suit our program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

Nothing comes to mind. I need 40 characters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maxine K.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/20/2018

"Boardingware has made the management of students a streamlined and accurate process."

5/5

What do you like best about Orah?

The system is easy to use and allows parents, staff and students to be fully informed particularly in regard to leave requests. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

Nil

Think the programme is suitable. I do not use this now that it is installed and the staff are proficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.