Hāpara Highlights
Hāpara Highlights helps educators monitor and guide student browsing during class.
What Hāpara Highlights is
Hāpara Highlights helps educators monitor and guide student browsing during class. Teachers can view activity in Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge in real time, message classes, groups, or individual learners, and focus browsing on selected websites. They can block distracting sites, open pages on student screens, or close unwanted sites. Highlights imports Google Classroom rosters and supports sharing assignments, questions, and materials. Teachers can access learners’ Google Drives to find files, track progress, and share files. The service supports Chromebooks, Windows laptops, and MacBooks when its Chrome or Edge extension is installed. Hāpara says teachers can see school-account tabs, active-tab previews, school Drive or OneDrive files, and class browsing history, while not accessing camera, microphone, activity outside Chrome or Edge, or activity outside configured hours.
Good
- Provides real-time browser activity visibility
- Supports class, group, and individual messaging
- Imports Google Classroom rosters
- Offers website blocking and redirection
- States CIPA, COPPA, and FERPA compliance
Watch out
- Does not work on iPads or iPhones
- Does not support Android devices
- Safari and Firefox cannot use it
- Requires administrator extension deployment
Who it suits
It suits schools and educators supervising browsing on Chromebooks, Windows laptops, and MacBooks through Chrome or Edge extensions.
Verdict
Hāpara Highlights combines live browsing oversight with messaging, Google Classroom, Drive access, and web controls. Its extension and device requirements exclude several common platforms, and pricing requires contacting the provider.
Plans and prices
From Hāpara Highlights's own pricing page, checked 7 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Hāpara | Priced on request | Starts around $1,500 · Based on student count, not devices · Volume discounts and multi-year agreements available |
The facts
Each one read from Hāpara Highlights's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Browsing controls
- Teachers can focus learners on selected websites, block distracting sites, open websites on student screens, and close distracting sites.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- Hāpara states that it is CIPA, COPPA, and FERPA compliant.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Data practices
- Hāpara says it does not sell or rent user information and does not retain or use user information after a school cancels its subscription.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- Administrators deploy the student extension, configure browser and device policies, allow required network traffic, and verify installation.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Google Classroom
- Highlights can import Google Classroom rosters and share assignments, questions, and materials.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Google Drive
- Teachers can access learners’ Google Drives to find files, track progress, and share files.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Live visibility
- Educators can view student activity in Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge in real time.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Messaging
- Teachers can send messages to a class, groups, or individual learners.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Privacy limits
- The maker says Highlights cannot access camera or microphone hardware, activity outside Chrome or Edge, or activity outside configured monitoring hours.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Privacy visibility
- The maker says teachers can see school-account browser tabs, a live preview of the active tab, school Google Drive or OneDrive files, and class-session browsing history.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Hāpara Highlights helps educators monitor and guide student browsing during class.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Support
- Hāpara offers live virtual and onsite training tailored to school staff needs.checked 7 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Device limits
- Highlights does not work on iPads, iPhones, Android devices, or browsers that cannot install its extension, including Safari and Firefox.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Supported devices
- Highlights supports Chromebooks, Windows laptops, and MacBooks with the appropriate Chrome or Edge extension installed.checked 7 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2011checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Raleigh, North Carolina, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
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