What are Snaps? Follow
In this article:
How to send students feedback with Snaps
Ways to use Snaps in your classroom
A Snap in Hāpara Highlights is a record of a student’s browsing activity. It contains a picture of the student’s screen, along with other helpful information.
Snaps improve communication and encourage collaboration, reflection and critical thinking. For example, you could send a student a Snap with a positive message about their online choices or progress.
Students could also add a Snap to their semester portfolio to document progress, or they could have a conversation about a Snap during a parent conference. Another way to use Snaps is to create a Google Form and ask students to reflect on their thought process or decision-making related to a Snap.
Where you can take Snaps
Activity Viewer
First, you can take Snaps from any of the three windows in the Activity Viewer tab in Highlights:
- Class Activity - websites students in the class currently have open in their browsers
- Unique Activity - websites that exactly one student has open
- Collaboration - websites two or more students have open at the same time
To take a Snap from the windows in the Activity Viewer:
1. Hover your cursor over the student’s activity.
2. Click the camera icon to instantly take a Snap.
Current Screens
You can also take Snaps from the Current Screens tab in Highlights:
1. Click on the image of what a student is viewing on their screen.
2. In the bottom right-hand corner, click Take a snap.
Browser Tabs
The Student Tiles in Browser Tabs also gives you the option to take a Snap:
1. On a Student Tile, click the three dots to open the drop-down menu.
2. Select View screen.
3. At the bottom of the screenshot, click Take a snap.
What a Snap includes
Snaps are so much more than screenshots! They also include:
- The student’s name
- The date and time the Snap was taken
- Whether the Snap related to a single student (Unique Activity) or a group of students (Collaboration)
- The website address the student or group viewed
- A timeline of the student’s browsing activity
Where Snaps are stored
You can later view the saved screenshots in the Snaps tab, which is located at the top of your screen in Highlights.
A Snap is available for seven days, but there’s also an option to email it to yourself if you need to keep it longer.
To email yourself a copy:
1. Click the Snaps tab at the top of your page.
2. Next, click on the Snap you want to view.
3. Then click Email me a copy in the top right-hand corner of the Snap window.
How to send students feedback with Snaps
You can also easily share formative feedback with a student. For example, you could send a positive message with a Snap if a student did a great job researching reliable resources. Or you could ask a student to use the Snap to reflect on their online progress.
To send formative feedback:
1. Click the Snaps tab at the top of your page.
2. Select the correct Snap.
3. Click Send learner(s) feedback, located in the top right-hand corner.
4. Verify that the student’s name in the template is correct.
5. Select from the feedback templates options.
6. Type the subject and message into the boxes.
7. Select Include timeline + current screen. These details will be sent to the student.
8. Click Send feedback.
Ways to use Snaps in your classroom
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Strategy for using Snaps |
Why it’s helpful |
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Provide students with formative feedback |
This gives students a chance to improve and helps them take ownership over their learning. |
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Document online activity |
This allows you to document examples of positive or negative choices online. |
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Use for reflection pieces in portfolios |
This connects learning to goals and promotes critical thinking. |
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Show parents what students are working on during class |
This improves communication and collaboration between teacher, parent and student. |