Webinar: What's New at Harpara?

 Webinar: What's New at Harpara? (August Update)

Digital Backpack - A new offering and can add on to what we are already using. Gives chn access to digital resources on any device at any time. This means that it is responsive to the type of screen that it is being read on. This builds on Student Workspace. There is something like 350 resources already uploaded to the library however they are updating all the time. The library is full of original texts. Schools that sign up for this can add their own texts and will be helped to scan and upload and ensure they have the right copyright levels to share. 

How diverse are the texts being loaded? Resources for Kindergarten to Grade 12. Most resources are in the public domain. Harpara believe there is a wide variety but they do lead towards the classics. More NZ based texts are coming the more customers turn up in NZ. 

This is available now. It has been trialled in Canada.

New Hapara Admin Settings - Designed to make using Harpara more efficient for teachers. 

If you are a big Highlights user, you can now jump straight to Highlights. In the admin console under the optional settings - landing modules, you can now choose Dashboard or Highlights. This is not a personal setting it would be made for all teachers in the school.

Additional Updates - The search function can be used to search folders or drives for specific workbooks/docs. This has been around for about 5 years now but is a little well known secret.

New Onboarding Experience: Bright Purple Question Mark at the bottom of every page. New is the quick start guide. The Learning Hub is where anyone can go to to get tips and tricks or refresher idea. Wherever you are in Harpara there will be relevant pages for you to look at. Therefore each page on Harpara has relevant ideas for each page rather than just on the home page.

Another update is that now when you are in “current screens” it used to be that you would have to close the tab that you saw on current screens then you would have to go back to the browser tabs, but we’ve added a simple little edition to the student tiles that allows you to now close the tab directly from current screens.

There is a "reason for shutting tab" option that can be turned on in Harpara Admin. You can have up to 4 reasons for closing the tab and can personalise the wording to suit the learners. This would be a valuable tool to get schools to do so that students understand why their tabs are closed. Becoming positive digital citizens.

If you see Harpara folders in your drive, please do not delete them.

If there are any questions or suggestions we can get in touch with them. They are known for listening and responding to feedback.