Settings - Highlights (Screens) Follow

Hāpara Highlights is a browser-based application that helps teachers see what learners are doing in near-real-time in their Chrome browser. 

 

In this article:

• Enabling Highlights
• Student Privacy: Setting time restrictions
• Student Privacy: Setting IP restrictions 
• Domain allow list
• Reasons for closing tabs
• Pause screens

Where to find Highlights settings

1. To find the Highlights settings, first navigate to Settings on the Hāpara Admin Console home page.

2. Then click Highlights (Screens).

 

 

The toggle button under Enable Highlights will show and hide the Highlights tab in Hāpara Dashboard for teachers. 

 

Student Privacy: Setting Highlights time restrictions

The time restriction options can be found under Student Privacy within the Highlights Settings. 

 

To adjust school monitoring hours/days, click the Edit button. We strongly recommend that you restrict Highlights activity to under ten hours (a typical school day). 

 

 

If you need a longer active window for Highlights, you must acknowledge you are acting against Hāpara best practices by ticking the check box before saving. 

 

 

Student Privacy: Setting Highlights IP restrictions

1. To add your school IP address/es, click the Edit button under the IP address restrictions option

2. Then enter the necessary IP addresses.

This will ensure that Highlights will function on your school network (or networks).

Once this is done, the extension will only be active on students' profiles when they are on the specified school networks. When on other networks, the extension will not provide details of student activity in the Chrome browser.

 

 

It is important to understand the risks for not setting IP restrictions. These are highlighted in the yellow box when there is no IP address inputted. 

 

 

Domain allow list

Adding URLs to the Domain allow list will ensure that students will always have access to any necessary SSO login links or URLs that need to be available at all times. When teachers set a focus browsing session, the URLs listed here will remain accessible for students.  

 

Clicking the Manage links button under Domain allow list will allow you to add/remove the necessary URLs.

 

Reasons for closing tabs

When teachers close a student's browser tab, they will see a pop-up window. This window will display reasons that have been inputted in the "Reasons for closing tabs" list.

Once a teacher selects a reason, it will then show as a message for the student. This helps the student understand why their teacher closed their tab, giving them digital citizenship guidance.

There are four default reasons displayed. These can be edited or deleted using the edit buttons on the right-hand side of the reasons list. 

 

Pause screens

Pause screens is a great eyes-on-me feature that allows teachers to lock the students' Chrome browser screens for up to 15 minutes. 

 

Adjust the maximum time limit by clicking the Edit button under the Pause screens configurations.