Orah uses routine school processes to keep a student's location updated.
Attendance, dismissals, hall passes, check ins and emergency response turn Orah into your source of truth for where students are. Works with Blackbaud, Veracross, and FACTS out of the box.
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Routine school processes update student location
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Each module is built around the same simple question: where is every student, right now? They share one roster, one source of truth, and one consistent operator experience.
Account for every student in as little as two minutes
When the alarm goes off, you need a single source of truth for who is accounted for and who is missing. Because attendance is taken in Orah, you always have a live headcount, not data that's 20 minutes stale.
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So emergency data is always live.
Teachers take attendance on whatever device is in front of them (most teachers use the Orah Roll Checks Chrome Extension), or use tools like RFID readers and QR codes to automate attendance.
Student locations update instantly. Two-way sync with your SIS means the same record powers payroll, parent comms, state reporting, and the live headcount your safety team relies on. Orah tracks which period each student is in, so when the alarm sounds, you're not working from 20-minute-old data.
Every bus, car, walker, and pickup tracked in real time.
Replace clipboards, walkie-talkies, and pickup chaos with one live board. Staff move students from Awaiting Transport to Go to Dismissal Area to Awaiting Pickup to Dismissed, and parents see exactly when their child has been picked up.
Schools can enable signatures, QR codes or both for pickup verification.
Passes are a core functionality of the Orah platform, students request, parents & staff approve.
When a student leaves a classroom, you should know where they went, when they got there, and how long they've been away. Digital hall passes make that automatic, and feed every movement into the same student-location record.
Front desk kiosks scan IDs, run watch-list checks, print a dated badge, and notify the host, all in one flow. Visitors show up in your emergency rolls, so during a drill or incident you know exactly who else is on campus so you can account for them.
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Front-office staff log every late arrival and early dismissal in one flow. Teachers see the change on their roster instantly. Parents get the confirmation they need.
Absences flow to daily AND class attendance, so teachers can see who is not expected in class instantly
Absence requests come in through the family app, route to the right approver, and apply to both the daily roll and the specific class periods the timeframe overlaps. If a parent logs a 10:30 to 12:00 dentist appointment, the student is excused from those periods only, the teacher sees a 'returning at 12:00' note on the roll instead of a generic absent.
If a student is at robotics club instead of the bus line, your dismissal staff need to know. After-school programs feed directly into student location so nothing slips.
Mobile check-in means curfew counts take less than 60 seconds, which feeds the same headcount your safety team relies on in an emergency.
Residential schools need to know where every boarder is at curfew, on weekends, and on every leave. Dorm staff sign students in and out from a phone, with approved-host verification, medication tracking, and overnight headcounts that roll up to the same student-location source of truth.
Monitor student wellbeing with mood checks and surveys. Schools use this to identify at-risk students, so you can take preventative measures.
Teachers and dorm staff can log behavior easily using the official Google Chrome plugin, notes are visible to Deans, advisors, or pastoral care staff as appropriate, building a shared understanding of the student’s situation.
Chat, send emails, texts and push notifications to parents, colleagues and students–collect one-click responses when needed, and automate important communications.
Day schools and boarding schools have different routines and workflows. Orah helps you build the configuration that works for your school specifically, on the same school safety platform that revolves on student location.
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"Students are starting to get more engaged just because of the way we're able to communicate and share information with them"
"Orah is a clean platform that allows you to see and track any concerns with students. You can see if they're not participating, eating regularly, or leaving the building. Those are incredibly helpful pieces that facilitate meaningful conversations"
"The checkpoint kiosk has provided a professional way to manage the sign in/out of the pupils and staff, which supports the safeguarding of pupils. The system is very easy to use, allowing proper management of access to Boarding Houses."
"When we're no longer focused on paperwork, then we can focus on the relationships and the students. You can take notes as you're sitting there with students, so absolutely. Make the change. It's sort of revolutionized my life"
Orah’s security and privacy program is based on and aligned with industry-standard frameworks, and we maintain a comprehensive suite of certifications and attestations to further demonstrate our commitment to security and privacy.
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