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.

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

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.

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.

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...

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.

Today, we are excited to announce that we are bringing that rigorous level of accountability to the entire market as an official Strategic Partner of Blackbaud. 

Every school has dealt with this: you pull a report on student absences, and instead of clean data, you get "Sick", "Ill", "Unwell", "Home sick", "Flu", all describing the same thing. Good luck spotting patterns in that mess.

If your school uses Blackbaud or Veracross as your Student Information System, you can now enable Single Sign-On for Orah.