Hapara Updates- Winter 2018-2019

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There have been some great updates to Hapara in the last week or two.  If you don't know, Hapara is more than just a monitoring system for chromebooks- it also allows you to share documents, create student groups and create lessons (including pushing out browser tabs to students).

Some of the recent updates are:
  • An updated header
  • New options to guide user browsing (THESE ARE AMAZING!)
  • The ability to create browsing templates for learners- this allows to to create templates for browsing that you use frequently with your students-without having to redo them each time!

The video below goes through each of these new updates with samples on how to use them with your own Hapara and students.

Looking for more information and tutorials on Hapara?  Check out their great resources here: https://hapara.com/resources/customers-first/

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