Navigating homeboards — Your main daily dashboard, the Homeboard

Orah Apps — The different Orah apps (Staff, Student, Parent, Checkpoint) and what each one does

If your school syncs data from a Student Information System, read the relevant series below after completing the core setup steps.

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Veracross:

FACTS:

Importing Your Students into Orah — If your School does not use SIS to integrate with your Orah account, you can bulk importing your student database via a CSV file.

Managing the Student Database — Adding, editing, and managing student records

Creating a Tag - Manage your Student database by creating custom groupings in Orah called Tags. Users can use Tags to filter their selection of students in Orah.

Importing and Managing Contacts — Importing parent and guardian contacts

Adding Houses to Your School Account — Setting up your houses and dorms

Updating Student House/Dorm Assignments — Assigning students to houses

How to Invite Staff Members to Orah — Inviting teachers and staff to your account

Import Staff Users — Bulk importing staff via CSV

Creating Staff Roles and Setting Permissions — Creating role types and controlling what each staff member can see and do

Staff Roles and Permissions Best Practices — Recommended permission structures for different school types

User Settings - Attendance (Supervise) — Configuring which rolls and groups each staff member supervises

Getting Started with Orah Attendance (Supervise) — End-to-end setup guide for the Attendance module

Attendance - General Settings — Core attendance configuration options

Configuring Daily Rolls — Setting up morning, afternoon, or evening roll checks, mostly used for Residential Life use cases.

Configuring Automatic Rolls — Automating your roll schedule, mostly used for Residential Life use cases.

Reasons — Setting up absence reason codes

Daily Attendance Policy — How the daily attendance policy is calculated

Class Attendance Roll Type Setting — Setting up class attendance linked to your timetable

Setting up Passes (admin) — Creating pass types for your school

Customizing a Pass Workflow — Setting approval workflows, endorsements, and gating rules

What are Host endorsements/approvals and how do they work? — Understanding endorsement chains

Understanding the Final Approval Options for Leave/Pass Requests — Auto-approve vs manual approval options

Pass Type - Rules — Advanced pass rules and restrictions

Attendance Concern (Alerts) Settings — Configuring attendance alerts for absent or late students

Set notifications — Setting your own notification preferences

Setting Staff Notifications — Managing notification settings across your team

How to create an Emergency Roll? — Creating your school's emergency accountability roll

Configuring Emergency Rolls — Settings and configuration options

Emergency Rolls and Critical Alerts — How emergency rolls and critical alerts work together

Inviting Students and Parents to use Orah — Sending invitations to families

Informing Parents and Students of Orah — Communication templates and guidance for rollout

Getting Started - Orah Families App — The parent-facing guide you can share directly with families

Track Parent Account Activation (Contacts Report) — Monitoring which parents have activated their accounts

Get started with Attendance Insights — Setting up and using the Insights module

Attendance Insights Dashboard — Understanding your attendance data at a glance

Attendance Records Page — Viewing and filtering individual attendance records

Introducing Reports and Dashboards — Creating and customising reporting dashboards

Preparing For A New School Year — Year-start checklist and data reset process

Orah Account Checklist - Boarding School — Full boarding school account checklist (boarding schools)

Getting Started with Orah (Boarding) — Full boarding onboarding overview — start here

Boarding Basics: How Orah Works — How the boarding module is structured

Users and Roles Overview (Boarding) — Recommended role structures for boarding schools

Setting Up Orah for Boarding Schools — Step-by-step boarding configuration guide

Mapping out your campus – creating zones and locations — Setting up campus zones for location tracking

Setting Default Locations — Assigning default student locations

Preparing for Go-Live – Boarding Schools — Pre-launch checklist

First Week Best Practices — How to manage the first week after launch