About Hāpara
Hāpara is a suite of tools that works in conjunction with Google to provide teachers with ways to see what students are doing online and engage with them (Highlights), provide visibility into work that students are doing in G Suite as well as give teachers different ways to provide feedback to them(Dashboard) and create differentiated and collaborative learning experiences for students (Workspace.)
Created by educators in New Zealand
After adopting Google Apps for Education in 2010, Manaiakalani educators realized they needed a more effective way of managing learner work in this new digital environment. They collaborated to design a dream tool that would streamline teacher workflow and deepen personalized learning and student engagement. They emphasized a straightforward design that would empower teachers of all technical abilities to track learner progress, provide ongoing feedback, disseminate files, and facilitate collaboration and differentiation through flexible groupings. From this, Hāpara’s original Teacher Dashboard was born.
Today, Hāpara has a range of products that were all built to support educators as they create authentic, personalized learning experiences. Our work is inspired by John Hattie’s research on Visible Learning and by the teachers, administrators and learners we work with every day.
