Video walkthrough
This video provides an overview of the Attendance Insights Dashboard in Orah, walking through the available widgets and how to use them:
Summary
Attendance Insights has a total of 11 widgets, this article will lay out the functions of each individual widget. This Attendance Insights Dashboard offers school administrators and educators a variety of tools to monitor and analyze attendance at both a macro (overall trends) and micro (individual student) level.
Each widget helps identify attendance patterns, track specific students, and provide insights for strategic intervention or policy adjustments. The insights page view is unique to each staff user hence it is usual to see different data from your peers.
🧭 Navigation : Homeboard > Location > Insights
All 11 Widgets :
Roll Completion Rate (staff data)
Staff With Most Incomplete Rolls (staff data)
Attendance Rate Overview
Shows overall attendance percentage at high level using pie chart
For 4 different time ranges - Today, 7 Days, 30 Days, 12 Months
Use: Quick glance of the moving attendance trend spread across different period
Attendance Rate
Displays a trendline chart tracking attendance percentage over the selected period
Hover over the line dot to show more information
Attendance Target/KPI can added to have a visual mark on the attendance rate
Adjust your school's target/KPI by using the 3 dot ellipse option on top-right corner
Use: This visual helps track attendance fluctuations over time, with the ability to monitor whether attendance rates are improving or declining.
Roll Completion Rate 🆕
Displays the progress bar of roll call of classes - % completed v/s incomplete
Total number of rolls in number is displayed under the progress bar
Not-started and In-progress rolls both are counted as incomplete rolls
Both staff and admin users can access this widget
This widget shows data with respect to the staff, not student
Use: It helps to monitor if all the classes have their roll call taken, which is important to get the most accurate attendance for the whole school. Even a 1 % incompletion rate can help identify missing roll records
☝🏽 Note - 2 Staff Roll Completion Rate Widgets are not available when data source is Blackbaud
Staff With Most Incomplete Rolls 🆕
Displays the list of staff members with incompleted roll calls
List is sorted by descending order, showing the most incomplete rolls for staff first
This list is clickable to open up a modal that displays rolls with incompleted classes
Use: A staff member can have a quick peek to identify which class they have not taken attendance for and even help their peer with it. An Admin can monitor on a school-wide level and reach out to staff in real-time which class needs a roll-call
☝🏽 Note - 2 Staff Roll Completion Rate Widgets are not available when data source is Blackbaud
Attendance Heatmap
Visualizes attendance patterns across different classes over the selected period
Same grid chart can be used to visualize level year grouping using the dropdown
Hovering and clicking over each cell would provide details of the class
Scroll to view more classes below
A heatmap using colors ranging from blue to yellow and red, indicating classes with high to low rates of attendance
Grey means no data
Use: Allows educators and administrators to spot problem areas, i.e., classes where students frequently have low attendance.
Most Unexcused Absences
Lists the top 10 students of unexcused absences over a selected period
Use: Administrators can identify which students need interventions due to their high unexcused absence rates.
Most Tardy Students
Lists the top 10 students of tardy over a selected period
Use: Highlights students frequently arriving late, allowing the school to investigate and potentially address underlying issues.
Most Excused Absences
Lists the top 10 students of excused absences over a selected period
Use: Allows educators to differentiate between valid and unexcused absences and identify students with legitimate reasons for missing class.
Attendance Trends
Visualizes the trends in attendance, showing breakdowns of excused and unexcused absences over the select period range
Use: This widget helps administrators see trends over time to detect whether attendance is improving, stable, or declining.
Attendance by Excuse Type
Breaks down the types of excuses students have used for their absences over the select period range
Use: Helps administrators understand the reasons students are missing classes, which can inform policy decisions or individual student plans.
Students Attendance Table
Provides a detailed table of students with their attendance rates, and a breakdown of absences.
Use: A comprehensive tool to see both individual and group attendance performance in a tabular format. The data can be filtered or exported for reporting or follow-up actions.
Time Range
All of the data within the attendance dashboard can be ranged by Today, Last 7 days, Last 30 days, Last 12 weeks, Last 12 months, or Custom Date.
All My Students & Filters
Attendance Insights only shows data of students assigned to the staff member 🆕
All the data on the attendance insights page can be filtered by House, Tags, and SIS Groups / Classes
Renaming Widgets
All the widgets can be renamed by clicking on the 3-dot option on top-right corner of each widget
Hope this was helpful. If you have any further questions, email us at support@orah.com or just click the blue chat icon at the bottom right corner of this page, we will help you navigate through it. Stay ahead of all the attendance trends in your school.















