Workspace overview – Hapara Support

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What can you see on the Workspace homepage?

What can you see after you open a Workspace?

Hāpara Workspace is a platform that allows you to create an engaging learning path for students. A Workspace contains a collection of learning objectives, online resources, assessments and learning criteria for a stream of work.

More than that, though, it’s also an interactive place where teachers can differentiate instruction, personalize learning, track learning progress and collaborate with other teachers. Workspace also allows students to actively engage with online content, make choices about how they want to learn and work collaboratively in groups.

How do you access Workspace?

To access Workspace:

Log into Teacher Dashboard at https://app.hapara.com.
Click Workspace at the top.

What can you see on the Workspace homepage?

When you first log into Workspace, you will see the My Workspaces page.

This includes all of your Workspaces organized into different categories.

Owned by me: These are Workspaces you’ve started creating, have created or have copied.
Shared with me: These are Workspaces that aren’t linked to your classes, but you’ve been added as teacher/collaborator on them.
My labels: If you’ve created custom labels for any Workspaces, they will be organized here by those labels.
Professional learning: These are any professional learning Workspaces that you are working on to boost your skills.
My classes: These are Workspaces that are organized by the classes you’ve assigned them to.
Archived: These are Workspaces that you archived and are no longer active.

Other features of the homepage include:

A button to create a new Workspace

A search bar to search your Workspaces

A Discover tab to search for Workspaces that have been shared publicly

What can you see after you open a Workspace?

When you open a Workspace, you will be brought to the Workspace’s main page. The main page in the Workspace is where the content appears in Workspace Cards. These are displayed across four different Workspace Columns.

The view will be from the teacher’s perspective versus how a student views it. This allows you to make edits to groups or content.

Workspace Cards

Workspace Cards give students access to learning goals and resources such as online videos and articles. They also include learning evidence and activities in the form of Google files. Cards can also include rubrics so you can make assessment criteria clear to students.

Overall, the Workspace Cards include all the digital content you want students to read, view, respond to or engage with over the course of the Workspace.

Workspace Columns

Workspace Columns organize Cards across four default categories:

Goals: include objectives or learning standards
Resources: include links to articles, videos and websites that teach students about topics
Evidence: include digital assignments, quizzes, tests or projects
Rubrics: include criteria for success

Note: You can change the Workspace Column headings by clicking on the heading and typing.

How can you use the Workspace tabs?

The tabs in the top white section of an individual Workspace help you manage the learning that’s going on in Workspace.

Students & Groups tab

The Students & Groups tab allows you to add classes or individual students to the Workspace. It also allows you to create groups to help you differentiate learning, as well as add co-teachers to specific groups.

Activity Summary and Individual Activity tabs

The Activity tabs (Activity Summary and Individual Activity) are linked to the Evidence Cards in your main Workspace page. You can use these tabs to view students’ progress on formative and summative assessments and manage grading.

What is the Discover tab?

The Discover tab at the top of Workspace allows you to find and copy public Workspaces. These are Workspaces that teachers across the Hāpara community created and shared.

In Workspace, click Discover to browse by subjects, grades or standards. You can also use the search feature to find Workspaces by topic.

Once you open and copy a Workspace, you can modify it any way you’d like to meet the needs of your students.

Workspace features

Feature	How to access	What it does	Details
My Workspaces page	Log in at https://app.hapara.com. Then click Workspace at the top.	This page lists all of your Workspaces, organized into categories: Owned by me Shared with me My labels Professional learning My classes Archived	When you want to create a new Workspace, search for a Workspace, edit a Workspace, archive a Workspace or find a public Workspace, start here.
Owned by me	Go to the Workspace homepage. Owned by me is a category in the left-side menu.	This category shows you Workspaces that you are currently drafting, have copied from the Discover tab and have published for students to access.	This is the default category you will land on when first see the Workspace homepage. That’s to provide you with quick access to the Workspaces you are currently editing or using with students.
Shared with me	Shared with me is a category in the left-side menu.	This category shows you the Workspaces that colleagues have shared with you as a collaborator.	You and your grade level team might collaborate on the same Workspace. One teacher can create a new Workspace and add teammates as collaborators.
My labels	My labels is a category in the left-side menu.	This category shows you Workspaces according to the label you’ve added to them.	You can add labels to Workspaces to help you keep them organized. Some labels you might use could be: STEM, project-based learning or personalized learning.
Professional learning	Professional learning is a category in the left-side menu.	This category shows you the Workspaces that you have been added to as a student.	In order to foster professional learning, a team leader or instructional coach might create a Workspace aimed at teaching pedagogy or a new tool. In this case, you would take on a role as a student.
My classes	My classes is a category in the left-side menu.	This category shows you Workspaces that are assigned to specific classes.	Your classes that have been uploaded to Teacher Dashboard will appear here. Any Workspaces that you have assigned to a class will appear when you click on the class.
Archived	Archived is a category in the left-side menu.	This category shows you the Workspaces that you have archived.	When your students finish a Workspace, you can archive it to keep your Workspace homepage organized. It won’t disappear, though. You can always unarchive it and use it again with next year’s class.
Search feature	On the Workspace homepage, the search bar is on the top right.	Use the search feature when you’re trying to find a specific Workspace in My Workspaces.	If you are having trouble finding one of your Workspaces, try searching for it using a keyword. You can search in any of the categories.
+ Create button	On the Workspace homepage, the blue + Create button is on the top right.	This button allows you to start creating a new Workspace from scratch.	A template will appear on the new Workspace’s main page, where you can get started by adding Workspace Cards.
Individual Workspace main page	From the homepage, click on any Workspace to open that Workspace’s main page.	This page allows you to curate all the digital content you want to present to students for a lesson, project or unit.	This is where you’ll edit a Workspace in draft mode or a public Workspace you’ve copied.
Workspace Cards	You can add Workspace Cards from the individual Workspace’s main page.	Workspace Cards give students access to each piece of digital content you want students to engage with (links, task descriptions, videos, articles, assessments, learning criteria and more).	You can add links, upload files from your computer, upload Google Drive files or create a new Google Drive file to add to a Workspace Card.
Workspace Columns	On the Workspace’s main page, Workspace Cards will appear across four Workspace Columns.	Workspace Columns allow you to organize your Workspace Cards and give students a balanced learning experience. Columns include: Goals, Resources, Evidence and Rubrics	The Workspace Columns are customizable. You can change the headings, and you don’t have to use the fourth column.
Goals Column	The Goals Column is listed first on the Workspace’s main page.	This column makes it clear to students what they’re working toward as they engage with each section of the Workspace.	You can simply type objectives or standards in the description for a Goal Card in this column. Or you can add a file.
Resources Column	The Resources Column is listed second on the Workspace’s main page.	This column allows you to give students access to digital material that teaches them about the topic of the Workspace.	You can give students links to articles, videos, audio clips or websites about the Workspace topic.
Evidence column	The Evidence Column is listed second on the Workspace’s main page.	This column allows students to demonstrate their mastery of the material that the Workspace presents.	Share formative or summative assessments with students, add start dates and due dates.
Rubrics Column	The Rubrics Column is listed fourth on the Workspace’s main page.	This column allows you to make your criteria for success transparent to students so that they know exactly how they will be evaluated.	You can add learning criteria to this column or change the column to enrichment or extended learning resources.
Students & Groups tab	The Students & Groups tab appears in the top white section on a Workspace’s main page.	This tab allows you to give students and colleagues access to the Workspace. You can also use this page to create Workspace Groups, which allow you to differentiate the content of the Workspace	If you want students to work in groups to research different topics in the Workspace, you can create groups and add students here. Then you can create Workspace Cards with content specifically assigned to each group.
Activity tabs (Summary and Individual)	The Activity Summary tab and the Individual Activity tab appear in the top white section on a Workspace’s main page.	These tabs allow you to manage student activity on assessments from Evidence Cards. You can view progress on assessments, manage assessment grading and provide feedback to students.	If you created an Evidence Card with a Google Forms quiz, you can assign it to students with a due date. Use the Activity tabs to identify which students have started the quiz, completed it or have an overdue quiz.
Public Workspaces	From the Workspace homepage, click Discover in the white section at the top.	Hāpara community teachers from all over the world have made their Workspaces public. Search for a public Workspace based on a topic you want to teach or browse by subject, grade level or standard.	If you want to teach a Workspace unit on fifth grade fractions, search in the Discovery tab. You’ll find many public Workspaces. If you find one you like, you can copy it and then edit it to suit the needs of your students.

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