Not helpful for those who use it most often
Administration must like the idea of this app. However, the people who work with children at our school are never on a laptop or computer. We have to use this on our phones.
When I am scrambling to check in 46 students at once for our aftercare program I can’t fiddle with an app that is constantly showing me that students are checked in when they aren’t. The buttons are so small. And the app is not intuitive at all. It shows tiny photos of the kids that I can’t zoom in on, tiny buttons to click between multiple after school clubs and sports that aren’t big enough to show the text. It times put of roll call in less than a few minutes so when I have to start a new roll call, it looks to the administration as if I’ve taken roll multiple times per class. If more than one teacher is taking roll, as is often the case for us, it doesn’t sync for a minute or two and we don’t know who has been checked in between us.
In the two months we’ve had it, it has only sometimes worked to scan the QR codes the parents present to check their kids out. We’ve gone back to paper sign-out sheets, as a backup basically doubling our work. This is confusing and frustrating for us and the parents. Yesterday I was told to uninstall and reinstall the app when it doesn’t read the QR codes. For me this is after each student.
Administration assures us they are working on it. It must be costing our IT department a lot of time.
When I am scrambling to check in 46 students at once for our aftercare program I can’t fiddle with an app that is constantly showing me that students are checked in when they aren’t. The buttons are so small. And the app is not intuitive at all. It shows tiny photos of the kids that I can’t zoom in on, tiny buttons to click between multiple after school clubs and sports that aren’t big enough to show the text. It times put of roll call in less than a few minutes so when I have to start a new roll call, it looks to the administration as if I’ve taken roll multiple times per class. If more than one teacher is taking roll, as is often the case for us, it doesn’t sync for a minute or two and we don’t know who has been checked in between us.
In the two months we’ve had it, it has only sometimes worked to scan the QR codes the parents present to check their kids out. We’ve gone back to paper sign-out sheets, as a backup basically doubling our work. This is confusing and frustrating for us and the parents. Yesterday I was told to uninstall and reinstall the app when it doesn’t read the QR codes. For me this is after each student.
Administration assures us they are working on it. It must be costing our IT department a lot of time.
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Some aspects work well
For taking attendance in class, this app works well. For looking at passes that students have, often, student names disappear. So this aspect is useless.
Cannot log in using work google email
Multiple attempts and confirmations. Nothing happens. Endless log in loop. Worthless.
Does not have capabilities that website does
It’s really difficult, and in some cases impossible, to access the aspects of Orah that staff need when off-campus with students. Staff will typically have their phones (not laptops), and be using the app, so it would be helpful for the app to have easy access to passes and the like when supervising groups of students. Not very intuitive or user-friendly.
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Disappointing
Why develop a app that’s not available for iOS users what a disappointment need to get with the times!!
