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.

In an emergency, speed, clarity, and reach are everything. Schools and organizations need to not only detect and manage incidents quickly, but also ensure the right people receive the right message immediately.

After an emergency drill, you need to know how quickly everyone was accounted for and whether your alert systems worked as intended.

Orah has rolled out a new set of enhancements designed to simplify and enrich the attendance marking experience for teachers, turning routine tasks into insightful opportunities.

Independent and faith-based schools using FACTS now have a new way to track attendance, improve campus safety, and reduce administrative workload, thanks to a new integration between Orah and FACTS. 

With Attendance Concerns, you could alert a Year-Level Dean if a student in their grade is late to class 3 times in a row within a month, which would open up a new Attendance Concern for them to triage and action.

2024 was a busy year jam-packed with core product changes and new updates that work towards making independent schools safer than ever before. This article is a quick summary of all the primary releases made in the last 12 months.

The Student Attendance Insights is now available on a student profile page within Orah. It is essentially a tab within a student’s profile that aggregates attendance metrics, course specific data and filters.

Managing passes has just become more flexible and seamless with Orah. We’re excited to announce the release of our Multiple Active Passes feature, designed to improve how schools manage passes for students across both day and boarding.

Previously, you could only select one recipient type for an attendance alert. Now, you can include all three recipient types in a single alert.

Create a secure staff-initiated group conversation with multiple students.