Account Administrators

Preparing for the Orah Re-Brand

Everything you and your school need to know as Boardingware rebrands to Orah.

Written by Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago

Inviting Staff Members and Updating Permissions

Get faculty and staff connected to Orah and adjust their accessibility and permissions

Written by Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago

Importing Your Students into Orah

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

Written by Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago

Managing the Student Database

Edit student information, add additional profile fields, and more

Written by Kathleen Lowry
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Adding Houses to Your School Account

Create a list of houses/dormitories for boarding student assignments.

Written by Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago

Integrating with your School's SIS

Orah's SIS connection

Written by Kathleen Lowry
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Integrating with Orah's Open API

Giving you the ability to integrate more deeply with Orah

Written by Kathleen Lowry
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Enabling Single Sign-On (SSO)

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

Written by Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago

Importing and Managing Contacts

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

Written by Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago

Creating and Editing a School Group

Groups are an effective way to filter which students you see in the Homeboard. Make groups for class years, teams, clubs, and more.

Written by Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago

Showing Your School Pride

Update your Orah account to reflect your school's colors and custom branding.

Written by Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago

Exploring Additional Admin Tools

How to complete your School Profile, audit student and staff usage, view SMS credits, and view your subscription details.

Written by Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago

Events and Engagement Dashboard

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

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Written by Kavyapriya Sethu
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Location and Attendance Report within Student’s Profile

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

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Written by Kavyapriya Sethu
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Workflows

Help staff members manage internal workflows and let Orah maintain accountability

Written by Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago

Introducing Reports and Dashboards

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

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Written by Kavyapriya Sethu
Updated over a week ago

Forms

Collect information from students, staff, parents, and more

Written by Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago

Creating Forms for Different Audiences

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

Written by Kathleen Lowry
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Passes

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

Written by Kathleen Lowry
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Daily Roll Checks

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

Written by Kathleen Lowry
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Automatic Roll Checks

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

Written by Kathleen Lowry
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Checkpoints

Giving you the ability to manage Checkpoints remotely

Written by Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago

Locations

Written by Kathleen Lowry
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Events

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

Written by Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago

Meal Settings

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

Written by Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago

Emergency Rolls

How to configure Emergency Rolls and ensure student safety

Written by Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago

Pastoral Notes

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

Written by Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago

Orah Apps

Understanding the apps that are available to your different user types

Written by Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago

Orah Checkpoint Kiosk

Written by Kathleen Lowry
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NFC Checkpoints

Written by Kathleen Lowry
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NFC Scanners

Written by Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago