Highlights Chat Follow
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Overview
The Chat feature in Hāpara Highlights allows teachers and students to build supportive and collaborative relationships. These positive relationships enhance student learning by helping develop executive functioning skills and digital citizenship. With the Chat feature, teachers can initiate 1:1 conversations with students during instructional time.
Enabling Chat
Teachers must enable the Chat feature to allow for communication between teacher and student:
1. While in the Highlights tab, locate the Chat icon in the bottom left-hand corner of your screen. > Click on the Chat icon.
2. The Chat panel will open on the right-hand side of your screen. > You will see the message Chat is off in yellow at the top. > To start using Chat, toggle the switch to On.
Turning on Chat will allow you to directly message a student when you are both online during class.
A teacher-initiated chat
1. In Chat, you will see a list of the students in your class. Any student displayed as Online will be able to receive a message from you during instructional time.
2. Once you have typed a message, click Send. The student will see a pop-up appear in their browser window, displaying your message.
Students can also see your message by navigating to their Hāpara Highlights extension icon. This is located at the top of their Chrome browser.
Clicking the icon will open Chat. Students can send and receive messages to/from their assigned classroom teachers.
A student-initiated chat
1. Students can also initiate a chat with their classroom teacher. They can do this by clicking the Hāpara Highlights extension icon at the top of their Google Chrome browser.
2. This will open the Chat panel where they will see a list of their Hāpara classes. > They should then click on a class.
3. Students will then see teachers listed for that class. Teachers will display as Available or Not available to chat.
If a teacher is displayed as Available to chat during class, students can message the teacher by clicking on the teacher's name.
4. The teacher will then be notified that they have a new Chat message from a student. This alert will appear on the Chat icon, located on the bottom left-hand corner of the teacher's Highlights screen.