Orah vs Google Forms for Education
Orah + Google Forms for Education = ✅

The best Attendance & Well-being forms alternative to Google Forms

Google Forms is a data collection tool suitable for creating surveys and quizzes, whereas Orah is a duty of care platform specifically designed for independent schools, focusing on attendance, student well-being, and communication. While both can gather information, Google Forms is primarily for general data collection and analysis, while Orah is focused on student safety and well-being with real-time tracking and communication capabilities

Trusted by 500+ independent schools
"I think of [our SIS] as our filing cabinet—a system where you're shuffling through papers and a million different links trying to find information. Orah is our daily platform, where attendance is taken, pastoral notes are tracked, and everything is easy to navigate. The communication between the two is almost instantaneous—there’s no delay like we’ve experienced with other programs. Our SIS houses all the information, but Orah gives us the insights, graphs, and real-time data we actually need to understand attendance better."
- Sarah Steele, Dean of Students & Head of House, Ridley College

Trusted by 500+ Independent Schools

Why schools choose Orah over Google Forms for Education
Why schools choose Orah + Google Forms for Education

Orah streamlines attendance processes

Save administrative time and improve record accuracy. At USN, Orah helped increase their roll call completion rate to 98%, saving Assistant Head of School, Nicole Jules, 15-20 hours per month.

Fulfill duty of care responsibilities

Orah's real-time student location tracking features drastically improves school safety. Paired with Clipboard for extracurriculars, it's the perfect combo.

Simplify daily tasks for staff and improve communication with families

With features like mobile attendance, automated attendance notifications, and a robust absence & leave requests system.

"It was pretty seamless…within three or four weeks, we pretty much had everybody taking it [attendance] in Orah."

- Nicole Jules, Assistant Head of School for Student Affairs, University School of Nashville

What's the difference?

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Features
Orah

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Google Forms for Education

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Class Attendance
Real-time attendance
Pastoral Notes System
Well-being surveys
Identify at-risk students
Reporting and Analysis
Designed for independent schools
Data Collection
Roll Calls
Real-Time Attendance
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Orah specialises in real-time attendance, student safety, wellbeing, and engagement features that complement the use of Google Forms for basic information gathering.

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Our Orah experts are here to help you and your team safeguard your students while they are in your care.

"If we don’t know that our students are safe and they are where they’re supposed to be, then we can’t really do anything else. Orah has made that part of our job much more efficient and much more sound."

- Ashley McDowell, Dean of Students, Episcopal High School

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"This is hands down the best application on the market in terms of making sure parents and staff understand where students are at any given time during the day.

It also has done a great job of expanding into buy-in areas for students such as having event sign-ups inside the application. Having parent accounts also does a great job of keeping lines of communication open between the parents, school, and students.
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- Andrew Wright,
Foxcroft Academy, NY, USA