Schools - Adding schools to Hāpara Follow

In this article:

• Schools overview
• Domain Summary
• School-level user access
• Adding or removing a school
• Editing a school

Schools overview

The Schools page in the Hāpara Admin Console allows for easier organization of classes and students, improved performance across all Hāpara applications, and more flexibility for assigning administrative privileges to school-level personnel.

Domain Summary

From the Schools page, you will find the Domain Summary, which provides admins with an overall view of the number of schools, classes, students and teachers currently loaded in Hāpara. 

The Domain Summary can also be accessed from the Hāpara Admin Console Home screen.

School-level user access

When schools are set up in your Hāpara Admin Console, you can assign access to teachers and administrators in the following ways:

• All classes in the domain: Users in the td.users root Google Group can access all classes from every school in Hāpara.
• All classes in a school:
  • Teachers: If the All Classes option is enabled within the Hāpara Admin Console, teachers will have visibility into all classes in the schools where they teach. For example, if an educator teaches classes at school abc, they can access all classes in school abc. If the educator teaches classes in schools abc and def, they can access all classes in both schools abc and def.
  • Other users: Users in td.users.schoolcode groups can access all classes in the school with the corresponding school code, even if they are not a teacher. These groups are created when schools are added into School Configuration. For example, a staff member in td.users.abc group can access all classes in school abc.

Adding or removing a school

To add a school to Hāpara, navigate to School details and click the + Add school button on the right-hand side. 

A pop-up window will appear for you to add your school name and school code. 

We recommend that school codes be kept short. Generally, schools use the initials of the school or a Ministry of Education number: e.g., Hipi Primary School = HPS.

NOTE: If you are rostering your data with SIS sync, please ensure the school code matches the school_number field for Clever and PowerSchool, and sourcedID for ClassLink.

When adding a new school, wait approximately two minutes per school before rostering classes to ensure the completion of a background process for each school.

Schools can be removed by Hāpara administrators if they have not yet had any data loaded. Click the x in the Actions column. 

If you need to delete a school that already has data loaded, please reach out to our support team at support@hapara.com.

Editing a school

To edit the school name for any existing schools, follow the steps below:

1. Navigate to Schools from the Hāpara Admin Console homepage.

2. Select the pencil icon in the Actions column to the right of the existing school name.

3. Modify the school name as needed and click Save. Note: There is no option to modify the school code as it is tied to other backend configuration settings.