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Use this guide to assign the correct role and house to staff members who have been imported into Orah.

Configure Imported staff in Orah

Documentation on configuring your school's account

Account Administrators

Orah now lets staff and students access multiple schools with a single login—no need to juggle different usernames or passwords!

Multi-School Login on Orah

Need to set up houses or dorms for your boarding students? You’re in the right place!

Adding Houses to Your School Account

Connecting your school’s Student Information System to Orah is one of the best way to keep everything running smoothly behind the scenes.

Integrating with your School's SIS

Let your staff, students, and parents login to Orah using your school's central authentication system.

Enabling Single Sign-On (SSO)

Here is your guide to set up an integration between Orah and Magnus.

Magnus Health Integration

Make your Orah account feel like your school—colors, logos, fonts, and values included!

Showing Your School Pride

Orah’s Admin Console offers powerful tools that help school administrators manage key aspects of their account.

Exploring Additional Admin Tools

Stay in the loop, without spending your day checking- by setting up a Daily Email Digest.

Daily Email Digest

Admin Console

CSV import all your staff members on Orah

Import Staff Users

In this article, you will read about the ways you can invite a new Staff user to Orah.

How to invite staff members to Orah?

This article is a detailed guide on creating staff roles and setting permission

Creating Staff Roles and Setting Permissions

You can easily manage your notification preferences in Orah to stay informed about the updates that matter most to you. Follow the steps below to enable or disable notifications for…

How to Enable or Disable Staff Notifications

Staff Profile

Edit student information, add additional profile fields, and more

Managing the Student Database

Editing an individual student's details

Upload your student database via .csv or manually add individual students.

Importing Your Students into Orah

Updating student information via a CSV import

Schools can now export all their student's details from Orah to CSV

Exporting Students from Orah

You can add custom fields to display special information about your Students.

Creating Additional Custom Profile Fields

Student Profile

Adding and inviting parents, guardians, and other student contacts.

Importing and Managing Contacts

The restricted parent access feature allows staff users to assign restricted visibility to any parent connected to student accounts.

Orah Parent App - Restricted Parent Access feature

Parents & Contacts

Creating a Tag

Edit or delete a Tag

Orah Apps

Orah Checkpoint Kiosk

NFC Checkpoints

Apps and Hardware

Create Event Passes for school-sponsored events or collecting travel plans for school vacations

Events

We are constantly looking for ways to improve our features. Here are some additional capabilities we have added to the Events feature.

Feature improvement: Staff can edit events

Let Orah help your catering department plan for meal times and reduce waste

Meal Settings

Activities (Coordinate)

Set up your class attendance roll type to start taking roll call for SIS based classes

Class Attendance Roll Type Setting

This article explains how to set up Attendance Alerts based on Reasons in Orah. These alerts trigger when a student receives a specific roll code (Class Attendance) and a selected…

Setting up attendance alert based on reasons on Orah

Attendance (Supervise)

Attendance Settings (4 tabs)

Attendance - General Settings

Send alerts for student missing class to staff, students, parents

Attendance Concern (Alerts) Settings

Set your daily attendance policy to view the day attendance on Insights Dashboard.

Daily Attendance Policy

Reasons

Attendance Settings

Pass/Excuse Index

Creating and managing open passes to suit the pass requirements of your school

Setting up Passes (admin)

All rules while creating a pass/excuse type

Pass Type - Rules

Assign student multiple pass for both day and boarding school

Multiple Active Pass

This article explains how to set up and use the public request link for passes/leaves

Generating Public Request Link For Leaves/Passes

This article explains how to create a Late Arrival to School Pass in Orah that students can use to check in via the Kiosk. It also shows how to configure…

How to Create a Late-to-School Pass for Kiosk Check-In

Passes/Excuse

Class Attendance Roll Type

Set up a Roll to run automatically to mark students based on their location and active passes at the time of the Roll

Automatic Roll Checks

Setting up Roll templates available for staff use on a daily basis

Daily Roll Checks

Roll Check

This article will help you setup location.

Locations

Giving you the ability to manage Checkpoints remotely

Checkpoints

Location Overview

Checking students in and out of locations

Automatically Update Student Location at 🚌 End of Day 🏠

Reset Students Location

Orah Checkpoint - Day App

How to set checkpoints and track students whereabout on Orah

Locations & Checkpoint

Learn about all components inside the attendance insights dashboard

Attendance Insights Dashboard (all widgets)

Group Roll Records + Student Roll Records

Attendance Records Page

Individual Attendance Roll Records

All the attendance alerts are displayed here

Attendance Concern (Alerts) Page

This page displays a summary of daily attendance statuses for each student.

Student Roll Record Page

Attendance Insights

Make announcement, or chat with students 

Communication (Connect)

New dashboard insights for communication is here

Communication (Broadcast) Overview

Send a message to everyone in your school

Make Announcements with Broadcast

Emergency Rolls and Critical Alerts

Broadcast / Announcement

My Conversations / Chat

Direct Chat/Conversations

Group Chat/Conversations

Monitor all ongoing conversation on Orah with Communication Monitor

Monitoring Communications on Orah

Chat/Conversations

How to configure Emergency Rolls and ensure student safety

Emergency Rolls

Safeguard

Student Care (Nurture)

Set up wellbeing categories and assign point values to track student behaviors

Pastoral Notes (Admin)

Choose form 4 sets of words - Pastoral (default) | Behaviour | Conduct | Well-being

Change Pastoral Terminology

Pastoral Note (or Behavioural / Conduct / Well-being)

A guide to Conversational Surveys by Orah.

What are Conversational Surveys?

The following article will provide you with step-by-step instructions on how to create your own Survey.

Creating a Well-being survey

This article will walk you through the steps of how to build and manage your own question library to be used while creating new surveys

Adding or Managing questions for your Well-being surveys

Here is a detailed article for you with steps on sending your well-being survey to your students.

Sending Conversational Surveys

Our reports transform survey responses into easily readable and understood widgets and quantifiable information for your analysis

Well-being survey data reports

Here's how you can take the Well-being Survey released by your school.

Students guide to Conversational Surveys

Conversational Surveys

Student Support is a repository that you can build to contain details of all staff members your students can reach out to.

Student Support: Inform students about who they can reach out to for help and support at your school.

Steps to get started with Mood Checks at your school

Mood Checks (admin)

Set up Mood Check from all the settings listed on this dedicated settings page.

Mood Check Settings

Adding, Editing, Deleting Version Setting

Setting up Mood Check Questions, Sliders, Emotions Mood Mapping, Influences, Notes

Mood Check Question Settings

Setting up emotions/words as record of concern and getting alerts

Records of Concern Settings

Settings to ensure students receive timely reminders and prompts of Mood Check under regular or specific events.

Mood Check Prompt Settings

Student Care (Nurture) setting allows different options available for controlling who can comment/receive notification on mood check records

Mood Check Comment Settings

Mood Check (admin)

Unify (Report | Workflows | Forms | Insights)

Glean more comprehensive insights from your data with our default dashboards: Location and Attendance Dashboard and Pastoral Dashboard.

Introducing Reports and Dashboards

We provide customizable options that you can leverage to view the desired data for each widget in your dashboard.

Customize your dashboards

Here is all you need to know about the Events dashboard, and Engagement dashboard.

Events and Engagement Dashboard

Under student profiles, we are introducing a new report—Location and Attendance Report

Location and Attendance Report within Student’s Profile

Reports

Collect information from students, staff, parents, and more

Forms

How to set up forms to send to Students, Staff, Parents, or the Public

Creating Forms for Different Audiences

Help staff members manage internal workflows and let Orah maintain accountability

Workflows (admin)

How to send notifications via automated/manual workflows

Send Workflow Notifications

Workflows

Orah Blog

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