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Part 1: Configuring Orah for Attendance Insights

Welcome to Orah! This guide covers the Attendance Insights setup for Veracross. Note: This is for Insights only. If you need to mark rolls, please switch to the Full Class Attendance guide.

Updated over 3 weeks ago

1. Integrating Orah with your Veracross Account.

Before we can analyze data, we need to establish a secure connection between your systems.

  1. Creating your Orah account as the first Orah user from your School.

2. Setting up your Integration: Connect Orah to your Veracross environment. - Setting up your Veracross Integration

3. Understanding Scopes & Objects: A look at what data (Students, Classes, Attendance) Orah pulls.

4. Setting up Single Sign-On (SSO): Enable your staff to log in using their existing credentials. - Single Sign-on Orah


2. User & Access Management

Now that the pipes are connected, we need to decide who can access the system and what they can see.

Staff, Student & Contact Setup: Create staff roles (Admin vs. View-only), manage your student and contact database, and invite users to the platform.


3. Data & Branding

To get accurate insights, we need to organize your Staff, Student, and Contact database.

Manage student tags, customize Orah’s appearance, and configure your preferred login method.


4. Attendance Logic & Workflow

This is where the "Insights" come to life. We map your Veracross attendance codes to Orah's logic.

Mapping Reasons: Ensure a "Late" in Veracross reflects as a "Late" in Orah.

Configuring Passes: Define why students are moving (e.g., Medical, Late).


5. Hardware & Checkpoints

If you are tracking physical movement on campus, you'll need to set up your kiosks.

Setting up a Checkpoint Kiosk: Configure a dedicated station for student check-ins.

Next Steps

Now that your configuration is complete, you are ready to move on to the Actual Usage phase, which is standard across all platforms.

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