Hapara

Hapara—Making Learning Visible: []



The Teacher and Student Dashboard includes

 * ==== Student Portfolios: push Google Site templates to students, observe progress in a Dashboard. ====
 * ==== Smartshare: Share, copy, send files quickly to students ====
 * ==== Parent Portal: provide parent access to student’s work in their drive ====
 * ==== Teacher Notes: Provides opportunities for teachers to share information about students ====
 * ==== Best Integrated with Chromebooks and Google Apps ====

**__(W) Weaknesses:__**

 * ====Pricing Cost per Student and Teacher Users (Costly for large urban school district)====
 * ====Complex to integrate with the SIS framework (depending on SIS)====

**__(O) Opportunities:__**

 * ====Teachers and Students have the opportunity to use Google Drive, Google Classroom (LMS), build Google sites, and district wide e-mail system====
 * ====Teacher can assigned students groups for collaboration on web-based projects, develop exit tickets/assessments on various Google Apps====
 * ====Lesson Delivery and research-based inquires, projects, and assignments====
 * ====Collaboration across classrooms, grade-levels and other Google Classrooms====
 * ====Design Differentiated Instruction groups and teacher-led small-groups====

**__(T) Threats:__**

 * ====FERPA: As Teachers may be able to share information about students to other instructional staff and resources, they have to consider FERPA and non-disclosed information (i.e. Students with IEPs, 504s on a cloud & web-based application)====
 * ====Managing Appropriate content material with students and other access to Google Apps (i.e. Youtube-enabling the content filter)====
 * ====Monitoring student use of the application (i.e. Bullying amongst other students and exchange of appropriate content)====

Teachers can interact in the classroom by using Hapara as a way to link technological standards and curriculum by:

 * ====Creating Research and Project Based Assignments====
 * ====Other Forms of Assessments (Exit Tickets and student –made presentations with Google applications: Google sites, PowerPoint presentation, Docu share, etc.)====
 * ====Differentiated Instruction with web-based instruction and interactive games appropriate and engaging to increase literacy and mathematical skills====