Orah Student Life Platform

Orah, formerly Boardingware, is a student life and school safety platform operated by Boardingware International Limited, with a mailing address in Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand. Founded in 2014, it has a distributed team of more than 40 people in six countries and reports more than 500 schools and institutions as customers. Its mission is to help schools always know where their students are and keep them safe.

The platform combines period-by-period attendance, student location, passes and permissions, dismissals and real-time emergency rolls with modules for boarding and residential life, leave and absences, behaviour and well-being (notes, surveys and mood checks), two-way communications and visitor management. Student profiles hold health information and behaviour notes, and staff see live who is on campus, off campus or on leave. Orah syncs with student information systems such as Blackbaud, Veracross and FACTS, and is used by independent day and boarding schools.

• Student Location: period attendance, passes, permissions, dismissals and attendance alerts.
• Emergencies: real-time location data and emergency rolls.
• Boarding and Residential Life: check-in and check-out, leave requests, medication administration and a live in-house view.
• Behaviour and Well-being: behaviour notes, well-being surveys and mood checks.
• Communications and Visitor Management: two-way chat, broadcasts and visitor screening.
• SIS integrations: sync with Blackbaud, Veracross, FACTS and other systems, plus SSO for parents, staff and students.

An international boarding school in Vietnam could manage weekend leave requests and see in real time which boarders are in house, off campus or on leave. A large day school could run period attendance and real-time emergency rolls during evacuation drills. A school counselling team could use mood checks and surveys to identify students who need support early.

Gives staff real-time knowledge of where every student is, which supports emergency response and roll calls. Shows boarding staff a live view of who is on campus, off campus or on leave, with leave requests from students and parents updating locations automatically. Surfaces at-risk students automatically through attendance concerns, mood checks and well-being surveys. Builds on existing SIS data through integrations, with ISO 27001 security and GDPR, COPPA and HIPAA compliance listed.

Schools are giving more weight to student safety, duty of care and well-being, and they want location, attendance and pastoral data in one place rather than paper rolls. Vietnam's growing number of international and boarding schools, which host students away from their families, face similar safeguarding expectations from parents and accreditation bodies.

Legal entity Boardingware International Limited, Office 3.1, 91 St Georges Bay Road, Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand. Founded in 2014 and rebranded from Boardingware to Orah. Investors named include Lance Wiggs and Vance Murdoch. Lists ISO 27001 and ISO 27018 certification and membership of ATLIS and TABS.