Hāpara product updates

Schools and districts can now sign up to be early adopters of Chat. This new feature allows teachers to send students an instant message during class and allows students to respond. Teachers can use this feature to build positive classroom relationships, offer instant digital citizenship feedback and respond to questions. Teachers can turn this option on or off during class time.

To sign up your school or district for early Chat adoption, fill out this form.

When creating a “Guide browsing” Focus Session or Filter Session, teachers can now select “Repeat this session.” They will select the days of the week and end date for the recurring session. This new feature makes it easier to focus students on their learning and lightens teachers’ workloads.

Learn more about recurring sessions in our Support Center.

A new version of the Hāpara Highlights extension was released. This version features enhancements for our highly anticipated new Chat feature. The Chat feature will allow teachers and students to communicate with each other to build positive classroom relationships and deepen learning.

When teachers click the “Guide browsing” button in Class View, they will see an updated window. This allows teachers to more quickly start a Focus or Filter Session, schedule one or create a template. The templates list will also include icons to help them easily differentiate between Focus and Filter Sessions.

Learn more about Class View in our Support Center.

Class View also includes an updated “Guide browsing” banner at the top of the screen, making it even easier to start a Focus Session or Filter Session.

Learn more about Class View in our Support Center.

The Class View tab in Hāpara Highlights combines Current Screens and Browser Tabs. Teachers can toggle between the two views, streamlining visibility into student browsing activity. 

Learn more about Class View in our Support Center.

A new version of the Hāpara Highlights extension was released. This enables our team to prepare for future updates.

In Hāpara Highlights, the “Message” feature has been updated to “Announce.” When teachers click on the button, they will be able to send an announcement to an individual student, a group of students or the entire class. 

Learn more about the Announce feature in our Support Center.

Teachers will now see an improved Hāpara Highlights page. This includes streamlined buttons on the top right of the page. This simplifies and declutters the interface, making it easier for teachers to take actions in Highlights and manage their digital classroom.

Get a quick tour of  Hāpara Highlights in our Support Center.

With the help of our Implementation team, new Hāpara administrators will now use the new Hāpara Admin Console to set up their school or district.

Learn more about the new Hāpara Admin Console in our Support Center.

A new version of the Hāpara Highlights extension was released. This enables our team to prepare for future updates.

In Hāpara Highlights, teachers can now click on the X next to a student’s tab and block it for the individual student. They can select a duration of time for blocking the tab. This makes it easier to keep learners focused and stop them from continuously visiting distracting websites.

Learn more about closing and blocking student tabs in our Support Center.

In Hāpara Highlights, teachers can now click on the X next to a student’s tab and block it for the class. They can select a duration of time for blocking the tab. This makes it easier to keep learners focused and stop them from continuously visiting distracting websites.

Learn more about closing and blocking student tabs in our Support Center.

When teachers use the Hāpara Highlights “Guide browsing” feature to create a Filter Session, they can now add up to 50 URLs (the previous number was 10). We made this update due to feedback from educators who wanted the ability to add more links. This prevents students from visiting distracting or harmful websites or pages. 

Teachers can now also remove a URL or link from an active “Guide browsing” session, allowing for greater flexibility during instruction and learning.

Learn more about guided browsing and Filter Sessions in our Support Center.

The new and improved Hāpara Admin Console is now available for all customers. The new design has a more intuitive interface and modern navigation. This makes it even easier to set up teachers and students and manage settings in Hāpara throughout the school year. This update also makes data loading more efficient.

Learn more about the new Hāpara Admin Console in our Support Center.

We now offer our platform in the Japanese language, broadening our global base of educators and learners who use Hāpara.

We fixed an issue that prevented students from being able to properly navigate to Hāpara Student Dashboard when using an iPad. Students must visit the following URL in order to see the fix on IOS devices: https://app.hapara.com/student.

Due to feedback from our community, the Class Info tab once again includes the “Copy CSV” feature. For clarity, we also re-added numbers next to the teacher and student sections.

Learn more about the Class Info tab in our Support Center.

In the Hāpara Admin Console, school and district administrators can now view how their teachers are using Hāpara. This self-service usage report is helpful when rolling out training programs and providing support to teachers.

Learn more about self-service usage reports in our Support Center.

The Class Info tab in teachers’ Hāpara accounts has a new streamlined look. This makes it easier for teachers to manage their class rosters in Hāpara, add students, add co-teachers, open and reset class folders and email students.

Learn more about the Class Info tab in our Support Center.

The Sharing tab in Hāpara Teacher Dashboard has been updated to the “Drive” button. This aligns with what teachers see in Highlights to better integrate our products together. Teacher Dashboard and Highlights are now more visually similar, and loading time has been reduced. 

Teachers who use more than two subject folders will also see a streamlined drop-down menu featuring multiple folders. 

Learn more about the Teacher Dashboard Drive button in our Support Center.

While teachers have been able to view students’ Google Drives via Hāpara Teacher Dashboard, they can now access their Drives directly from Highlights. At the top of their Highlights page, teachers can click the Drive button to search for and view files in students’ Google Drives. This allows teachers to stay in the same tab to view both student tabs and Drives.

Learn more about the Highlights Drive button in our Support Center.

This update ensures that the new self-hosted Hāpara extension runs smoothly instead of running the older Chrome webstore extension.