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Orah Overview

What is Orah?

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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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.


Seller Details
Year Founded
2014
HQ Location
Auckland, New Zealand
Twitter
@orah_hq
242 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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43 employees on LinkedIn®

Vincent P.
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Growth Operations at Boardingware

Recent Orah Reviews

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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Great platform that we could easily adapt to fit our needs"
We wanted to be able to use this for tracking day student locations in addition to boarders, and for conducting regular COVID symptom checks. It's ...
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Ellen H.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Easy to Understand and real time results"
Hard to pick one. Here are my top 4: I like the visual of seeing all the students and easy to use filters. I love the real time responses for em...
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3.5 out of 5
"A decent platform for tracking students"
The ease of use and ability to see where students are.
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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.
Orah Demo - Student Life Profiles
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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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.

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

We've had a bunch easier time keeping track of our students. Boardingware is also very accessible to our students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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.

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

Admin has real-time information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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.

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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.

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

Benefits : parents can see communication online instantly. Girls can sign up for leave more easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

KW
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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.

JR
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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.

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

Keeping track of students when they come and go from campus; tracking the administration of medicare; emergency roll call for fire and other drills. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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.

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

Benefits of having medical patterns/histories and leave patterns etc. Really managing to get a great look at the care of our residents and if a pattern emerges with pastoral needs etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MV
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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.

Recommendations to others considering Orah:

It's a no brainer Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Student travel, movement and registration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Paul Organ of Orah

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

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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.

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

In short, we are collecting and controlling information about students to a greater degree than was ever possible before—leading to gains in efficiency, safety, and time that can be bettter used getting to know the students well rather than hounding them about this and that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LW
Director of Boarding
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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.