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Simplify collecting NYSAIS accreditation evidence through daily processes

NYSAIS accreditation evidence for New York independent schools: how to keep attendance and drill records through daily processes.

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Attendance Without the Busywork

Attendance feels like busywork to teachers. It doesn't have to.

Why taking attendance feels like a chore to teachers, where the corrections end up, and what makes the roll quick to take and accurate by the end of the period.

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What’s your school’s safety readiness score?

What's Your School Safety Readiness Score?

In under two minutes, see how your school's Safety Readiness Score compares to 85 independent schools surveyed nationwide.

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Attendance Insights in Orah

Ontario Attendance-to-Marks Policy

Starting with the 2026/27 school year, the Ontario government is changing how student attendance factors into report cards. Attendance will count for 15% of the final mark in grades 9 and 10 courses, and 10% in grades 11 and 12 courses.

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Product Updates Summer 2026

Summer's been busy at Orah

While school was out, the team was heads-down shipping releases to get the platform ready for the new year: smarter attendance tools, smoother pass management, and deeper pastoral insight. Here's everything that landed, and what's coming ne

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New: Start an Emergency Roll Automatically via API

Your Security Systems Can Now Start an Emergency Roll Automatically via API

With the new Emergency Roll Open API trigger, your existing security and alerting platforms can now kick off an Orah Emergency Roll the moment they detect an event.If your system can make an authenticated API call, it can trigger Orah.

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Veracross After-school Activity Attendance Now Syncs into Orah

Orah can now automatically sync after-school activities, rosters, and meeting times from Veracross. This sync runs on the same 24-hour cycle as other Veracross groups.

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Onboarding Orah

Onboarding Orah: What's Changed, What We Built, and Why It Matters

For those of you I haven't had the privilege of meeting yet, I'm Grant. I joined Orah as Head of Customer Success in September 2025, and I've been meaning to write something like this for a while. Onboarding is a word I think about a lot...

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Orah Secures $2M Growth Capital Funding

Orah Secures $2M Growth Capital Funding to Accelerate Growth in School Safety and Global Boarding School Markets

Orah, a leader in K-12 school safety and boarding school management software, today announced it has successfully closed a $2 million growth capital funding round. The investment was led by existing shareholder Punakaiki Fund.

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