Demo:

The Snapshot

You can now set up your school's calendar structure from one place and confirm your school years, then build a teaching-week calendar for the whole school or a separate one for each division.

What's New

Under a new Operational Calendars area, you can review your school years, years pulled in from your student information system (SIS) are read-only here, so what's already synced stays consistent and build calendars underneath them. If every division runs the same schedule, set up a single calendar for the whole school; if divisions run differently, add one calendar per division and assign it to Lower School, Middle School, Upper School, or leave it unassigned. Each calendar lets you toggle which days of the week are school days and set a start and end time for each one, with a month-by-month preview of the year before you save. Assigned a calendar to the wrong division? Use Assign Divisions to move it without rebuilding the schedule.

Why It Matters

Divisions often run on genuinely different clocks Lower School might finish well before Upper School and your calendar setup should reflect that instead of forcing one schedule on everyone. Building it from your synced school years, rather than a separate manual entry, keeps your calendar structure lined up with the years your system already knows about. Operational calendar will have more integration with other features of Orah in the upcoming releases.

Next Steps

1. Open Admin Console and go to Operational Calendars

2. Check the School Years tab → years synced from your SIS appear automatically and can't be edited or deleted here

3. Switch to the Operational Calendars tab and select Add New Calendar

4. Give it a title and, if your school uses divisions, choose which one(s) it applies to

5. Set your weekly schedule → toggle school days on or off and set start and end times

6. Review the calendar-at-a-glance preview, then save

7. Repeat for any other division that needs its own schedule, or use Assign Divisions to reassign an existing calendar
   Questions about setting up your calendar structure? Reach out to your CSM.