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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.

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Boardingware
Year Founded
2014
HQ Location
Auckland, New Zealand
Twitter
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242 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
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43 employees on LinkedIn®
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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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"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 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?

Paperless leave approval system that involves parents having access to approval. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

Navigation at times but that's probably because I haven't spent the time to get to know all the features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Validity of leave approval. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Orah?

Fantastic support from the Helpdesk

Realtime and multi user aspect of ... several staff can be doing a 'live' roll at the same time

It has streamlined leave processes ... authorising and communicating with students and parents simultaneously ... the leave 'resubmit' function is fabulous Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

You can not enter recurring leave incidents Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Orah:

Try it ... you wont be disappointed Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Provides a professional and reliable platform for operating the Boarding House Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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It is flexible, user-friendly and streamlined. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

There is no student app for boardingware. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Boardingware allows use to keep track of our boarding community efficiently and effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Hi Timothy,

Thanks for the feedback! If you visit the app store you will see there is a student app available, and it has been very popular! I'm sorry that this wasn't communicated effectively to you.

Please feel free to connect with your Customer Success Manager to clarify.

Paul

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What do you like best about Orah?

It works on ipad and on my iphone which is very convenient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

If you mark a pupil in for a roll, they aren't automatically signed in as being back at school. You have to tick a separate box before the roll. I always thought that this should be a default setting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Easier to keep track of where students are supposed to be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Orah?

The simplicity of the software. It is intuitive and the teachers and students all got used to using it very quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

Whenever the iPad used as the kiosk has an Ios update, this can throw the p[programme and it needs restarting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We have been able to register and keep track of our boarders far more effectively than when paper was used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Orah?

The ease of approvals from parent, saves time for staff and parents Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

Can't send alerts when changes need to happen

Can't send messages through boardingware.

Hard to personalise leaves to fit our ways Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Security for the students and direct contact with parents instead of wasting time on phone call approvals Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Orah?

I like the detailed database entries we get to keep about our students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

There is not too much I dislike, if anything at all. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Orah:

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

Roll and Bed Check. It is extremely helpful for the amount of students we have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Orah?

Instant access for a variety of staff means when one person updates it we can all see the update instantly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

Poor Wifi where I work makes it problematic at times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Safeguarding Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Orah?

in my experience the Boardingware staff are excleent in every respect Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Orah?

In my experience there is nothing to dislike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Recommend Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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