Hapara Highlights Freeze Tabs Feature
Freeze Tabs is a new feature within Hapara Highlights. This will allow a teacher or aid to freeze all open tabs that a student has open at that moment, it will also allow new sites to be pushed out to the student(s). This is a little like a guided browsing session on the fly with less setup.
Guided or Focused Browsing Sessions Through Hapara
Sharing a website and creating a Guided/Focused Browsing Session on Hapara. This will allow you to create a session where the student(s) can only go on websites that you want them to be on. This eliminates the temptation for students to roam on different sites.
Addition
If you add these three urls to the list on a focused browsing session...
https://classroom.google.com/
Students will be able to have access to their Google Drive, Mail, and all of their Documents. This includes Slides, Sheets, Docs, and forms but they won't be able to find other items on the web to distract themselves.
Pause Screens in Hapara Highlights
A quick tutorial about how to pause the screens for all students in a class. This is very useful for classroom management to get the class's attention for behavior management, redirection or checking of understanding without the distraction of students not looking up from their screen.
Two Ways to Create Classes on Hapara
Steps to follow on how to add classes in Hapara either through Google Classroom or manually.
There are additional ways to add a class to Haparra that also creates a shared folder in the teacher's Google Drive. This shared folder creates one place for the teacher to see all the work for their students organized by a folder for each student that is also in each students' Google Drive. These have to be done by the Hapara Administrators and are usually done in the K-5 classes because they do not use Google Classroom in most cases.
Text Instructions
Tutorial on sharing a page directly to a student device. directly to a student device.
Changing Student Passwords Through Hapara
Changing student passwords can be done through Hapara at the teacher level if calling the helpdesk is not convenient or timely depending on your classroom situation. This walks you through the quick process of changing a student's password for their Google account and Chromebook at the teacher level.