Audience
Schools
About Ruvna
Ruvna is the comprehensive safety and operations platform that K-12 schools trust when seconds matter. As the industry-leading solution serving over 800 schools across 43 states, Ruvna helps educators confidently manage emergencies, communicate instantly, and account for everyone on campus—without adding complexity to existing operations. The platform integrates seamlessly with current technology to keep schools prepared and focused on their academic mission. Founded in 2012, Ruvna has become the trusted partner that keeps school communities safe and learning uninterrupted.
Ruvna's product suite includes Accountability for real-time emergency tracking, Attendance for streamlined daily check-ins, Visitor Management for secure campus entry, and Announcements for instant multi-channel communications. These integrated solutions eliminate operational silos while keeping school communities safe and connected.
Company Information
Product Details
Ruvna Frequently Asked Questions
Ruvna Product Features
Attendance Tracking
K-12
School Management
Visitor Management
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"Exceptional Product - Intuitive, Accurate, Reasonably Priced, Great Customer Support" Posted 2025-09-29
Pros: Ruvna is intuitive. Within minutes of logging on for the first time, teachers figured out how to use the program. Setting up the system for their use was just as intuitive. In an emergency situation, you want to make things as easy as possible so you can quickly account for students and protect them from potential harm. Ruvna has delivered on this multiple times over. We can account for 1250+ students, faculty, and staff in under 6 minutes. Ruvna's ability to sync with our SIS means it is continually updated with the most recent attendance changes. The integrated chat feature enables administration to quickly share time-sensitive information among themselves or with the entire faculty. Ruvna's communication module makes mass communication with any group of constituents very simple and effective.
Cons: Any issue I have had, whether it was an issue with how Ruvna functioned or the result of wonky behavior from our SIS, Ruvna solved within a week. I would like more options when it comes to the type of "plan" available for an event.
Overall: It is obvious that the developers of this platform understand the needs of an educational setting and care about doing what is within their power to ensure our children are safe. They actively seek input to improve the platform AND act on that input. Their customer support is some of the best I have encountered in any industry. Ruvna delivers, and that helps me sleep better at night.
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"Simplifying Attendance Automation & Emergency Management " Posted 2025-09-25
Pros: Ruvna's ability to integrate with major LMS platforms (my school uses Blackbaud Education Management) has transformed our ability to account for students, faculty, staff and administrators on our two campuses. More stakeholders ie. deans, security, nurses and administrators are able to track student attendance from a centralized dashboard and we are able to have more productive conversations as a result. In addition, the support team is capable and responsive. It is one of the few vendors we use where we can still have complex conversations on the phone and brainstorm school specific solutions. In the age of AI assistants this is truly refreshing.
Cons: Reporting and visitor management could be a bit more robust but the team continues to invite feedback and work to make the product more useful for their clients and their communities.
Overall: The Ruvna team is an ideal technology partner. They work to understand your school and your context and have a product nimble enough to help many schools improve their attendance and emergency management processes.
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"Ruvna is a game changer" Posted 2025-09-24
Pros: First, Ruvna allows our school administrators the ability to instantly notify faculty and staff regarding elevated operating procedures.
Second, Ruvna’s dashboard shows in real time accountability of all faculty and students.
Third, the chat feature allows for instant updates throughout the emergency.
Finally, Ruvna’s support team is attentive and a pleasure to work with.Cons: The biggest challenge for our school was getting faculty & staff to use their personal cell phones for school related business
Overall: From signing to contract to integrating our data to implementing the app during drills and emergencies, Ruvna has been a game changer for our school.
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"Great addition to our Safety Suite" Posted 2025-09-24
Pros: Ruvna has helped us solidify our safety protocols. It's the first product we have tried that gives us the confidence we need to deal with emergencies. I have to mention that our implementation was probably one of THE best I've ever had and I've been involved with so so many. We are actively working towards having Ruvna for all related tasks, such as visitor management which we do not yet have.
Cons: I have no cons at the moment. I am looking forward to how the build on their products.
Overall: I feel very confident recommending Ruvna to anyone who has asked about these sort of products. It's easy to set up, easy for the end user and reliable. Thank you to the Ruvna team!
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"We love Ruvna" Posted 2025-09-23
Pros: We needed a system to rapidly check in students during a drill or real time and this is the best product we tested. Fast, easy to use and fun, actually. Intuitive to use. Great support from the team. Open to product enhancement suggestions. Very responsive to requests and provides multiple resources to help solve issue and train staff.
Cons: Badge printing is proprietary to certain printers. We did have to buy a new printer. Tried everything to integrate our existing printer. Drivers license scanning on front facing camera on iPads is sometimes tricky.....but we are working it out.....
Overall: Great product. Does exactly what we are looking for. Best to make sure you train your admin team and run drills regularly so when a real event occurs you don't hesitate or have to relearn certain things. Our issues are minor, but we have our business set up as 3 locations and sometimes sending messaging out we have used a template for the wrong location. But that is a training and setup issue for us specifically and we are still in learning and optimizing phase. But we highly recommend Ruvna to anyone looking for an accountability program and visitor management platform.
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"Great Software" Posted 2025-09-23
Pros: Very user friendly. Fast response, there's no waiting for visitor results.
Very easy to account for everyone in your school or building. Easy to navigate on your mobile device or desktop.Cons: I would like to see different tones for different notification. Currently there is one tone for every notification, emergency and non emergency.
Overall: I want to express my appreciation for RUVNA software and the significant role it has plays in our emergency notification system.
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The platform is extremely user-friendly, offering a variety of options that cater to our school needs. Most importantly, I am impressed by how RUVNA continues to adjust to the evolving security landscape, ensuring that we are always prepared for any situation.
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"Ruvna Review" Posted 2025-09-23
Pros: Ruvna has been a great solution for our school’s emergency management, communications, and accountability needs. The platform has an easy to use interface and is intuitive for teachers. During evacuation drills our faculty are able to check in close to 2000 students in under 10 minutes. Our students use their school issued ID cards to check in to the building each morning, and check out if they leave early, providing us with valuable information on their whereabouts. We have not experienced any issues or downtime since we have been a customer.
Cons: I do not have any cons to report about the platform. Great features and support.
Overall: The Ruvna team is responsive to questions and requests. Support is quick to respond and answer questions. Overall, we have had a very positive experience.
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"A Critical Tool for School Safety and Efficiency" Posted 2025-09-22
Pros: Pros
Comprehensive Accountability: The system allows you to account for every student, staff member, and visitor on campus, which is an invaluable tool during emergencies.
Seamless SIS Integration: Ruvna links directly with your Student Information System, making daily attendance and adding new users fast and easy.
Effective Communication: It's used to send announcements to the school community for delays, closings, and other important information.
Reliable Support: The Ruvna team provides exceptional support and initial training, as well as consistent system updates.Cons: One point to note is the initial learning curve. While the system is intuitive, there is a minor adjustment period for faculty and staff to become fully proficient with all of its features. However, the comprehensive training provided by the Ruvna team made this transition smooth and efficient, ensuring everyone was confident in using the platform quickly.
Overall: As we enter our third year with Ruvna, our school community remains incredibly impressed and grateful for this system. Ruvna has become an indispensable tool for managing daily attendance, ensuring campus-wide accountability during emergencies, and streamlining our school-to-community announcements.
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What truly sets Ruvna apart is its comprehensive approach to school safety. The ability to account for every student, staff member, and visitor on campus is an unparalleled asset, especially in a crisis. This feature alone provides our team with immense peace of mind. The seamless integration with our Student Information System (SIS) has also been a game-changer, making daily attendance and the onboarding of new users remarkably easy and efficient.
Beyond the technology itself, the Ruvna team's dedication to support and training has been exceptional. From the initial staff-wide training to the consistent system updates, we've found Ruvna to be a reliable and continuously improving partner. We're confident in our decision to use this platform and have no plans to change anytime soon. It’s an invaluable tool we are happy to have. -
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"A great partnership with a company that has a superior product" Posted 2025-09-22
Pros: Ease of use
Receptive team assists schools with challenging data needs
Prompt support and openness to suggestions
Documentation is up to date
API connection is solid.
Rachel Strauss is an amazing Community Manager at RUVNA!Cons: There are no CONS!
RUVNA is such a fine product that the partnership we have developed with the team has brought us peace of mind.Overall: RUVNA keeps our campus safe! Grateful for a tool that works well in our complex environment. As we continue to use RUVNA, we have altered how we conduct our tabletop exercises with our security team. Communication is key and RUVNA provides a good deal of flexibility.
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"Ruvna is a game changer" Edited 2025-09-22
Pros: Ruvna was easy to integrate with our student information system, the training was relevant and focused on our needs as a school, and it's simple to set up and flexible in the different ways that schools can use it. The vendor is incredible to work with, and they really listen to product feature requests from their clients, reaching out to ask good questions, and then they implement updates and new features regularly. Support is at the ready to take care of our team's needs.
Cons: I can't think of one con to Ruvna - not from implementation to ongoing support and development.
Overall: Working with Ruvna has been one of the best parts of my job, and the product just keeps getting better!
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"Great For Accountability and Attendance" Posted 2025-09-22
Pros: - Unified data for attendance, announcements, drills, and accountability.
- Ease of use
- Streamlines drills and emergencies
- Visitor Management option is a great addition
- Support is responsive and helpful
- Data sharing with SIS
- The Ruvna team is very responsive to feature requests and suggestions
- Flexibility
- Kiosk management is easy and intuitive.
- Apps are easy to useCons: - Visitor Management is not (yet) as feature-rich, but is steadily improving
- Some attendance workflows need to be done manually, depending on your school's processOverall: Using Ruvna has saved us quite a lot of time and effort. It has also made our drills and emergency procedures significantly more effective. For attendance, it's integration with Blackbaud has allowed us to replace their attendance module with Ruvna, which has resulted in more accurate and timely information. The Ruvna team is great to work with and always work quickly to solve problems or answer questions. It's also great to know that even in areas where newer features are still being developed, the team is aware and always working to improve. Ruvna has been a really useful addition to our school.
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"Solid emergency management product for schools" Edited 2025-09-22
Pros: Ruvna is a solid emergency management product and is easy to train our teachers and staff to use. We use the Accountability feature for attendance and internal messaging during emergency events, as well as the Notification feature for communicating with families during emergencies or for weather alerts.
It was simple to connect to our Blackbaud SIS initially and we have since set up CAP alerts to drive our digital signage during events. Single sign on with Google makes it easy for faculty and staff to authenticate. I appreciate that we can also add users directly to the system that are not in our SIS or Google Workspace, such as our school resource officers.
We've been using it for several years now and have seen it grow with additional features and enhancements. Their support is top notch - they reply quickly and can make some changes specific to your environment, which is helpful.Cons: None so far. We had a new admin staff member this year who had used similar products at previous schools that said "Wow Ruvna is great and easier than others I've seen".
Overall: Ruvna is one of those products that "just works" and doesn't take up a lot of precious tech support time. We use it monthly for fire drills so that faculty and staff stay familiar with it, and it has performed perfectly during the handful of times we've had an emergency or weather issue.
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"Ruvna Makes Emergency Management Safer and Easier" Edited 2025-09-21
Pros: Ruvna has made emergency management, notifications and accountability so much easier and safer for our schools! Once we adopted Ruvna as our platform, it really highlighted the gaps in our prior system, and the only real errors that we had with drills, were not with Ruvna, but with our staff accountability and accuracy.
As an District Administrator on the platform, I love that I don't have to physically be at the building to see what is happening during a drill, and I can do a drill autopsy with our School Leaders using the drill report if there are gaps in accountability during drills. Our teachers like it because while it holds them to a higher level of attention to their student attendance, they understand the importance of accountability of all students. The secondary benefit to Ruvna, is that it holds our teachers to ensure that their class attendance in our SIS is precisely accurate because then they have seen how it translates to taking attendance in emergency situations.
The interface is very easy to use and set up! Training is breeze!Cons: Most of the small issues that we had came with onboarding and integration with our SIS, but customer support is very responsive and quick to help!
There's a couple of small tweaks that I will recommend to Ruvna to help make it stronger, but overall, I do not see any cons to the Emergency Management Program.Overall: The Ruvna team is very involved with their clients and actively seek feedback to improve their products, which I love! Of course, no one likes random surveys and status checks when they are busy, but Ruvna solicits feedback periodically and in ways that make it easy on the customer. Also, they are very receptive to emails from their customers on suggestions for improvements.
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They recognize that they are a growing company and want to meet the needs of their clients, and stay competitive with similar platforms.
We are planning to adopt the Visitor Management System, and hoping to adopt one of the upcoming platforms that is in development, which they talked about in one of their client meet-and-greets last winter. -
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"Ruvna has been with us through it all" Posted 2025-09-21
Pros: Ruvna has cut our attendance time down to less then half and that says a lot for a 13 acer campus school with 7 academic buildings.
We now use Ruvna for daily attendance and it has been a breeze.
I don't want to mention COVID, but I don't know what we would have done without Ruvna.
They are willing to work with you and tailer their product to your school's needs. Simply fantastic.
Whenever you need to communicate with them, their customer service is wonderful and they communicate regularly with necessary information.Cons: I truly can't think of a negative reason not to use this company and their products.
Overall: Ruvna is a game changer for school attendance and emergencies! They keep up with the times and truly listen to your school's needs.
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"RUVNA Review" Posted 2025-09-21
Pros: RUVNA has been a significant upgrade to our campus safety process. The ease of use of the product both for administrators but more importantly for teachers has led to fidelity of use. I especially appreciate how receptive the RUVNA team is to feedback and continually looking to add or update current features.
Cons: Our school adopted RUVNA three years ago. During that time the software has proven reliable. I don't have any negatives associated with the platform to report.
Overall: Overall beyond the software the wrap around support from the RUVNA team adds an additional layer of value. I would definitely recommend RUVNA to other schools.
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"Evolving Tech in the School Safety Space" Posted 2025-09-20
Pros: Ruvna is exceptionally intuitive for our faculty to interact with. The Ruvna team constantly takes feed back for features and since we adopted the technology in 2022, it has become increasingly more easy to integrate our systems with. I am most impressed with the Ruvna team’s ability to hear feedback and make meaningful changes to improve end-user experience.
Cons: I don't have anything negative to say. Does the tech glitch at times? Yes, but never in a critical moment, and bug fixes come quickly when surfaced
Overall: It’s been great to use the technology and have it integrate with our school safety protocols. There are many strengths to making use of Ruvna and if you are in the school safety space, I would encourage you to look into making use of their systems. It has been a complete game changer at our school for communication and accountability.
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"What a Product!" Posted 2025-09-19
Pros: -fast and easy accountability for students and staff in real time
-easy initiation of emergency procedures
-documents accessible with just the tap of a finger
-Requests for assistance customizable to specific people most directly involved with needing to be informed
-integrates with 911 to minimize response time
-easy navigation from campus to campus
-great reporting features
-in-app chat feature enhances communication
-check-in feature available for those off-campusCons: -No real complaints. My only wish is that the Request for Assistance sound could be different from an emergency activation, but I believe that is a limitation of iOS.
Overall: I spent several years bouncing from system to system trying to find the right program for our school for handling emergencies and student and staff accountability. I dealt with issue after issue after issue with those systems. Ruvna was the answer we have been looking for! Not only are we very happy with the product, but we know that Ruvna is always looking to continue to enhance its product. Just this past summer they rolled our 2 great additions. In the education industry, many times we're stuck with limitations that systems have with no real product enhancements over the course of time. Ruvna is constantly seeking feedback and trying to get better and better. We couldn't be happier with our decision to institute Ruvna at our schools!
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