How to use Hāpara Highlights

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How to use Hāpara Highlights

Introduction: Hāpara Highlights gives teachers visibility and control over the digital learning environment

Hāpara Highlights is a really powerful feature within Hāpara Suite. This post gives you a quick overview of how to use Hāpara Highlights. Highlights helps you see what learners are doing in near-real-time, provide personalised feedback, or remotely manage their Google Chrome browser by opening sites, closing tabs, or focussing the sites they are allowed to use for a period of time.

True superpowers for G Suite or Office 365

This first video gives you a quick overview of what it does:

Benefits

There are a number of benefits you will get if you use this part of the Hāpara Dashboard suite:

Focus or guide student web browsing – this means you can send students to the URL or website they need.
Schedule your focussed browsing sessions ahead of time.
Limit or block sites you need to.
Lock screens for a period of time to focus students’ browsing activity when required.
View how students are collaborating on documents in near real-time.
Send direct messages to provide private feedback to students.

This next video provides a thorough overview of the full feature set of Highlights: