Attendance - Student swiping per class and for hallpass

Julie Katz
Julie Katz
Third Anniversary Kudos 1 Name Dropper Participant
in Blackbaud K–12 Education Solutions™ General Discussions

We were using SchoolPass for attendance with students swiping their badges on iPads to come into class and if they needed a hallpass. SchoolPass was no longer providing updates that were needed so we now went with Orah. We are in their pilot program and it is going a bit slow.

Are any other schools out there using a system that has student scanning capability?

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  • Christine Zaremba
    Christine Zaremba
    Fourth Anniversary Kudos 1 Name Dropper Facilitator 1

    I'm really curious about your experience with SchoolPass - when you say they were no longer providing the updates you need, do you mean they sunset part of the software in favor of a lateral Raptor product, or they were dropping the ball? We have been having a really hard time with them with daily attendance - it was great for a long time but as they get closer to moving to fully branded Raptor products, it's become a struggle. I'm hopeful this is temporary as part of the transition. I also spoke with Orah recently but they didn't have the RFID capability we need built out yet, as promising as it looked.

  • Kristi Romanik
    Kristi Romanik
    Tenth Anniversary Kudos 1 Name Dropper Participant

    I would love to know more about Orah for attendance. Does it have a visitor management piece as well?

  • Laurie Cornett Cross
    Laurie Cornett Cross
    Fourth Anniversary Kudos 1 Name Dropper Participant
    edited November 10

    Also have SchoolPass and we scan into each class. It is a daily challenge..Blackbaud is aware that the integration is less than stellar. I did not think Orah had capability to do scanning? Have been searching for a good solution that integrates with BB but so far ..nada. I might recommend looking at Ruvna if you do not do scanning..

  • Kathy Hannon
    Kathy Hannon
    Tenth Anniversary Kudos 5 K-12 Fall 2025 Product Update Briefing Badge Name Dropper

    We have SchoolPass - we tried working with the Attendance feature but after over a year fighting to get changes, SchoolPass was unwilling to listen to suggests on how to make the sync work. Blackbaud isn't the problem, the SchoolPass' API integration that is the issue - mainly the timing of sync, an hour is too long when you are dealing with attendance. Sync was overwriting what we were taking in class for attendance - what a mess! We are only using SchoolPass as a student check-in/check-out and VM system but are having difficulties with the syncing of just out parent/student records now. I had such high hopes when Raptor bought them 😒

  • Kristin Heard
    Kristin Heard
    Ninth Anniversary Kudos 1 Name Dropper Participant

    We had the same experiences with SchoolPass. The only function that we actually liked it for was afterschool activities in our Lower school. For Attendance in the high school, it just didn't work for us. I've looked at a demo of Orah and want to look at Ruvna, too. I'd love to hear any follow up from any of you who decide to go with one of them.

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