How to create a new Workspace – Hapara Support

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Hāpara Workspace is a platform that allows you to easily build an engaging, personalized online learning experience. This gives you the chance to design an activity, lesson or unit of study that is interactive, differentiates instruction and gives your students choices. Workspace streamlines the process, making it simple to create a learning path that will keep your students interested and motivated.

Generating a new Workspace

Getting started is easy. Below are the steps to begin creating a new Workspace.

1. Log in through Teacher Dashboard at https://app.hapara.com > Click Workspace at the top.

2. From the My Workspace homepage, click the blue + Create button in the upper right corner.

3. In the form, add a title for your Workspace.

4. Select the class or classes that will be able to access your Workspace.

Note: If you add multiple classes, a group will be automatically created for each class. Or you can select to create your own groups.

5. Add a description for the Workspace. For example, you may want to add a summary of what the Workspace will cover, the subject, the grade level and learning standards.

6. To add a cover image, click inside the box or click the pencil.

You’ll see a library of royalty-free images that you can search or browse by subject.

Select an image > Click Save.

7. Click Save as draft at the bottom of the form. This saves a draft of your new Workspace.

Main Workspace page

After generating your new Workspace, you will see a new blank Workspace in “edit” mode. You can then start adding digital content such as goals, resources, assessments, rubrics and more.

Workspace Cards

You’ll add digital content through Workspace Cards. These are interactive rectangles that contain resources for students.

The Workspace Cards can include:

Learning goals, objectives or standards
Links to articles, videos, audio clips or websites
Google files like Docs, Slides, Forms and Sheets
Activities, formative assessments and summative assessments
Rubrics
Extended learning resources

Workspace Cards are the heart of what makes your Workspace an engaging digital experience for students. They fall into four Workspace Columns that help you present an organized learning path.

Workspace Columns

The four default Workspace Columns are:

Goals
Resources
Evidence
Rubrics

Workspace Columns are customizable. You can change their names at any time. Simply click on the name and type.

Adding a new Workspace Card

You can quickly add a new Workspace Card in any of the four Workspace Columns and add any information or links you’d like.

To create a new Workspace Card:

Click the + sign button in the appropriate Workspace Column.

Students & Groups tab

The Students & Groups tab is located on the top left-hand side of the Workspace you created. This is where you can add classes, students and co-teachers to the Workspace.

Plus, you can create groups to differentiate instruction so you can make resources in the Workspace visible to specific groups.

Left-side Workspace menu

The menu on the left side of your Workspace has sections with quick links and helpful information including:

The Workspace description you added
Students and groups assigned to the Workspace
Whether or not students can add their own Workspace Cards
Upcoming Workspace assignment due dates
Classes assigned to the Workspace
Teachers collaborating on the Workspace
Whether or not the Workspace has been shared publicly

Ideas for Workspaces

This Grade 1 Addition and Subtraction exemplar Workspace showcases all the great ways you can engage students in Workspace. Check out the other ideas below of ways you can use Workspace for lessons, projects and units across grade levels and subjects.

Subject/grade level	Description	Considerations
Middle school English language arts	Students will complete an inquiry-based project researching poets and their work.	Create groups based on poets to research. Create a group for ELL students so you can share scaffolded reading content with them. Create a group for other learning needs in the classroom. Give students choice in how they show their evidence of learning throughout the Workspace.
Elementary math	Students will complete a lesson that introduces decimals.	Create a group for enrichment resources and activities. Create groups based on skill level. Create groups based on other learning needs in the classroom.
Elementary science	Students will complete a lesson about erosion.	Create a group for ELL students so you can share scaffolded reading content with them. Create groups for other specific learning needs in the classroom.
High school history	Students will complete a unit about the Reconstruction era.	Include a variety of resources from different perspectives. Allow students to add their own Resource Cards. Give students choice in how they show their evidence of learning.
Middle school art	Students will complete a visual arts project that will accompany their English language arts research project about poets.	Have the English language arts teacher add you as a teacher in the Workspace. Then you can add sections with Workspace Cards for your class project, and you can manage learning.
High school foreign language	Students will complete a Spanish lesson on comparisons and superlatives.	Include a variety of resources to include video, audio, images and informational text. Create groups for specific learning needs. Give students choice in how they show their evidence of learning.

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