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Documentation on configuring your school's account
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35 articles in this collection
Written by
Kathleen Lowry,
Kavyapriya Sethu,
and
Zohaib Siddiqui
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
Admin
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
Updated over a week ago
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
Updated over a week ago
Integrating with Orah's Open API
Giving you the ability to integrate more deeply with Orah
Written by
Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago
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
Unify
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
Updated over a week ago
Customize your dashboards
We provide customizable options that you can leverage to view the desired data for each widget in your dashboard.
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Written by
Kavyapriya Sethu
Updated over a week ago
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
Updated over a week ago
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
Updated over a week ago
Supervise
Passes
Creating and managing open passes to suit the pass requirements of your school
Written by
Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago
Daily Roll Checks
Setting up Roll templates available for staff use on a daily basis
Written by
Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago
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
Updated over a week ago
Checkpoints
Giving you the ability to manage Checkpoints remotely
Written by
Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago
Locations
Written by
Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago
Coordinate
Events
Create Event Passes for school-sponsored events or collecting travel plans for school vacations
Written by
Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago
Feature improvement: Staff can edit events
We are constantly looking for ways to improve our features. Here are some additional capabilities we have added to the Events feature.
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Written by
Kavyapriya Sethu
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
Safeguard
Emergency Rolls
How to configure Emergency Rolls and ensure student safety
Written by
Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago
Nurture
Student Support: Inform students about who they can reach out to for help and support at your school.
Student Support is a repository that you can build to contain details of all staff members your students can reach out to.
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Written by
Kavyapriya Sethu
Updated over a week ago
Mood Checks
Steps to get started with Mood Checks at your school
Written by
Zohaib Siddiqui
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
Apps and Hardware
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
Updated over a week ago
NFC Checkpoints
Written by
Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago
NFC Scanners
Written by
Kathleen Lowry
Updated over a week ago