Orah vs. ISI: Illuminate Student Information

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Orah
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Boardingware, headquartered in Auckland, offers their student management system for boarding schools, built around managing the needs particular to boarding schools, such as student care and student tracking.N/A
ISI: Illuminate Student Information
Score 10.0 out of 10
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ISI: Illuminate Student Information is an SIS from Illuminate Education headquartered in Irvine, which features attendance and grade management, discipline, health, and reporting, report card sharing, and more. Illuminate Education announced they will sunset their student information system in 2021.N/A
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OrahISI: Illuminate Student Information
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OrahISI: Illuminate Student Information
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
OrahISI: Illuminate Student Information
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(5 ratings)
10.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
OrahISI: Illuminate Student Information
Likelihood to Recommend
Orah (Previously Boardingware)
This is hands down the best application on the market in terms of making sure parents and staff understand where students are at any given time during the day. It also has done a great job of expanding into buy-in areas for students such as having event sign-ups inside the application. Having parent accounts also does a great job of keeping lines of communication open between the parents, school, and students.
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Illuminate Education
One scenario where Illuminate is well suited is when we are creating mailouts for students and parents to send report cards and or progress updates, Illuminate allows us to quickly find a student's address. This feature allows us to cut down on the time it would normally take to lookup a student's address on another platform.
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Pros
Orah (Previously Boardingware)
  • Keeping all information organized in one place.
  • Having my entire student database at the touch of a screen.
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Illuminate Education
  • Stores student information in one place
  • Allows parents and students to access student grades from home
  • Serves as a gradebook
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Cons
Orah (Previously Boardingware)
  • I would like to see all parents having to capture weekend arrangements, whether they are going out or staying in.
  • An automatic reminder SMS sent to parents who have not made arrangements by a certain time.
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Illuminate Education
  • I think just by making regular updates would be awesome.
  • Making it easier to find students with last names that are longer.
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Support Rating
Orah (Previously Boardingware)
I gave this rating because Boardingware support is unbelievable. They are quick to reply and have a chat feature that they not only are there for most of the day but you can leave a note if they are not available and they get back to you very quickly. I thoroughly enjoyed any conversations I had with support from Boardingware.
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Illuminate Education
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Alternatives Considered
Orah (Previously Boardingware)
Senior Systems did not work as well and the functionality from the administrative side is not as user-friendly. I often felt like it was down and not working properly, or that I could not find where certain documents are. I believe that for a boarding school community Boardingware was much more user-friendly, and did not take as many steps in order to get the job done quickly.
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Illuminate Education
I haven't used any other software like Illuminate.
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Return on Investment
Orah (Previously Boardingware)
  • We were tracking student leave by hand or by an in-house program. Both of these became inefficient and/or unusable. Having Boardingware has expedited the process. It's hard to give numbers, but we're several days ahead of where we used to be in terms of tracking students' leave for Thanksgiving break.
  • Parent involvement was always an issue, but with Boardingware parents must approve a leave before we (the school) does. This makes parents take responsibility for their child which happens less than it should.
  • Having access to flagged students with health issues makes it much easier to plan field trips. We can easily know who should have what meds or epi pens based on their Boardingware profile. Safety awareness and prevention has gone up due to this feature.
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Illuminate Education
  • One stop data warehouse
  • Easy access to all state test scores
  • Easy grading for teachers.
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