Hapara Focused Browsing
Posted by Joani Kay on 5/29/2023
Hapara Focused Browsing is a great feature to guide and focus students to the correct website, quiz sites, and more.
Open Tabs is a fantastic feature for sharing URLs to learners within your class. You can also choose to focus your students to the newly opened browser tabs for a set period of time using the Focused Browsing feature.
When a Focused Browsing session is active, learners can’t open new tabs, swap to other tabs or browse to new sites or URLs.
Important NOTES from our testing:
- Open Hapara from the icon in your ClassLink. Open the class you plan to focus browsing.
- If students are using school Chromebooks - they should show up in your Hapara automatically.
- If they are using personal devices, which we do not recommend, have them access Google.com and login with their school email. Then you should see them in Hapara.
- If students are using school Chromebooks - they should show up in your Hapara automatically.
- We do not recommend using the preset timing tool because servers are not always in sync. Only launch Focus Browsing after students are in class.
- Student will receive a message that a focused browing session is about to begin.
- Teacher may setup the session so any tabs students had open previoys to session re-open - or they do not re-open.
Link to additional information with option screens from HAPARA : https://tinyurl.com/ybjrc9pg
Quick Video to get you started....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=35&v=s_dfx6BZQrQ