Hāpara news & updates
Stay informed with the latest Hāpara news, updates and blog posts about digital education content. From new features to exciting announcements, explore how we’re helping schools manage digital classrooms and keep learners safe.
November 2025 product update: Tips for streamlining teacher workflows to finish 2025 strong
Discover Hāpara’s November 2025 product updates featuring the new Overview Panel, Student Browsing History, streamlined Class View, and Instant Close Tab.
October 2025 product update: Student browsing history
Check out the October Hāpara product update featuring student browsing history, Microsoft Edge integration and a digital hall pass.
September 2025 product update: New features and a special announcement
Explore the September Hāpara product update with new screen monitoring features, a OneRoster update and special announcement.
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Hāpara Earns Global Recognition for Student-Centered Innovation
This year, Hāpara Student Dashboard Digital Backpack was named a finalist for the Edtech Cool Tool Award, and our CEO won the EdTech Leadership Award. Learn more about how the Hāpara team is committed to serving learners and educators by creating digital tools that power awesome learning.
Exciting new updates for Hāpara Highlights
In the coming weeks, you may notice some small changes to Highlights that will make it a lot easier to see what your students are doing online and provide them with feedback. Here are some of the exciting updates we have in store.
Why Hāpara for Alberta schools?
ERLC has partnered with Hāpara to provide free access to the Student Dashboard Digital Backpack for every student in the province this school year. This allows school jurisdictions a long term evaluation of the benefits of learner autonomy and self-management through technology.
Free Student Dashboard Backpack in Alberta via Hāpara & ERLC
The Edmonton Regional Learning Consortium (ERLC) announced Monday that it will support pilots of Hāpara’s Student Dashboard Digital Backpack for all K-12 schools in the province of Alberta until the end of August 2022.
Ring in the new year with some exciting Highlights updates!
Whether you’re working with students who are pre-readers, or you want to add a little fun, you will soon be able to add emojis to your Highlights messages.
What is Hāpara?
Explore Hāpara and the ways it empowers schools to keep learners safe and engaged online.
It’s here! Pause individual student screens in Hāpara Highlights
We have been working hard this past month to make Hāpara better than ever, and we can’t wait to share these changes with you! It’s here! Pause individual student screens in Hāpara Highlights
Hāpara updates: Product changes, initiatives (Aug 2021)
Join us to hear about all of the exciting updates we’ve made to Hāpara, just in time for back to school. Product Manager, Erin Harding and VP of Sales Robert Bailey led an informative discussion on the latest product updates that are happening at Hāpara. These updates include: Introducing Digital Backpack, updates for admins and updates for everyone!
Hāpara Highlights is better than ever!
We are happy to share that all of our schools have now been moved over to the new Highlights.
A new and improved Hāpara Highlights is here!
While there are some minor visual updates to the new Highlights, overall it will look and function just like the Highlights you’re already using.
ISTE awards Hāpara & its Champion Educator program
The ISTE Seal of Alignment is the gold standard of the edtech industry and represents years of tireless work by the Hāpara team and the educators they work with on a daily basis.
February 2021 product update: Better Highlight notifications
Coming soon students won’t miss notifications in Highlights while working remotely or in the classroom in their Chrome browser with Hāpara’s latest product update.
A better way to manage the digital classroom
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Safe and engaged digital learning
Quick implementation and easy management
Professional learning and training to fit your needs
Access to a world-class support team
