What Hapara does

Hāpara is a K-12 education technology company operating as a division of Cordance Operations LLC, headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. The company provides a browser-monitoring and classroom-management software suite that enables educators to observe student online activity in real time across Chrome and Microsoft Edge, deliver formative feedback on Google Drive artifacts, organize digital lessons, and manage student movement through a digital hall pass. Its product portfolio comprises Hāpara Highlights (browser monitoring for Chrome and Edge), Hāpara Teacher Dashboard (Google Drive progress visibility), Hāpara Workspace (learning content organization), Hāpara Student Dashboard (executive functioning planner), and Hāpara Hall Pass (digital hall pass launched in 2025). The platform integrates natively with Google Workspace for Education, Google Classroom, Canvas LMS, ClassLink, Clever, OneRoster, and PowerSchool, and bundles partner-provided student safety and dynamic web filtering via Gaggle.

The company sells to K-12 school districts globally through a sales-led enterprise motion with custom annual subscription pricing, supported by implementation services, live virtual training, and onsite training options. It reports 2.2 million learners across more than 40 countries, with majority concentration in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, and Canada, and claims penetration of 15% of U.S. medium/large districts. Reference customers include Prince George's County Public Schools (136,500+ learners), Appleton Area School District (15,000+), Pasadena Unified School District (14,000+), Joliet Public School District 86 (9,600+), and Nathaniel Hawthorne Middle School 74 in NYC. Compliance posture includes SOC 2 certification and Student Privacy Pledge founding signatory status, and the company has received EdTech Awards, ISTE Seal of Alignment, and Tech & Learning recognition.

Name

Hapara

Legal name

Hapara, a division of Cordance Operations LLC

Website

https://hapara.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Hāpara is a K-12 edtech company providing browser monitoring, classroom management, and student safety tools integrated with Google Workspace and Microsoft Edge, sold via enterprise subscriptions to school districts across 40+ countries serving 2.2 million learners.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

K-12 Classroom Management Software

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

Academic Integrity, Device Monitoring & Classroom Management Tools (EDAJAMAK)

akta.pro secondary industry

Curriculum, Lesson Planning & Instructional Content Platforms (EDAJAMAD)

Keywords

• Classroom management software
• K-12 edtech platform
• Student safety monitoring
• Browser monitoring tools
• Digital learning management

Headquarters

HQ city

Chicago

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Software Subscription: School/district subscription-based pricing model with tailored options to fit school or district budgets. All-in-one solution combining classroom management, student safety, and wellness tools.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Hapara sells an integrated K-12 classroom management and student safety software suite that runs on top of Google Workspace for Education and Microsoft Edge. Its tools give educators real-time visibility into student browsing, Google Drive progress, and on-campus movement, and pair with partner-provided web filtering and wellness monitoring to help schools manage digital learning, online safety, and student wellbeing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Hāpara Highlights: Chrome browser monitoring tool that gives educators real-time visibility into students' browsing activity, allowing them to stop digital distractions and foster digital citizenship.
• Hāpara Teacher Dashboard
• Hāpara Workspace
• Hāpara Student Dashboard
• Hāpara Hall Pass

Products and services

• Hāpara Highlights Chrome and Edge browser monitoring tool that gives educators real-time visibility into students' browsing activity, allowing them to see current screens, recently opened tabs, close off-task tabs, send private messages, and pause screens. Designed for K-12 schools using Google Workspace for Education or Microsoft 365 for Education.
• Hāpara Teacher Dashboard Classroom management software that gives educators a real-time view of learners' progress on Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, and Drawings, enabling formative feedback and instructional monitoring. Built for K-12 educators using Google Workspace for Education.
• Hāpara Workspace Online platform that organizes learning content, making it simple for students to stay on track and for educators to manage lessons and units within Google Workspace for Education.
• Hāpara Student Dashboard Online planner that helps learners build executive functioning skills by managing Google Classroom assignments, Google Drive resources, announcements, and class emails in one place.
• Hāpara Hall Pass Digital hall pass solution that gives school staff real-time visibility into student movement to support safety, accountability, and instructional time across the school campus.
• Gaggle Web Filter (Partner Technology) Dynamic content filter using machine learning and Gaggle IQ for real-time protection. Automatically evaluates and categorizes web content, blocks harmful material, and includes proxy site detection. Sold/distributed by Hāpara as part of its student safety offering.
• Gaggle Safety Management (Partner Technology) Student wellness tool using machine learning and human review to classify incidents, flag concerning content, and provide instant notifications for crisis situations. Currently available in the Southern Hemisphere; offered by Hāpara to K-12 schools.

Quantifiable outcome

• 20% increase in suicide and self-harm incidents for elementary-aged learners detected by wellness monitoring
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration8 records

AI capability4 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Google (Google Workspace for Education)coreTechnology or IntegrationHapara tools work seamlessly alongside Google Workspace for Education apps. Educators can keep learners safe online when browsing with Chrome, see real-time progress in Google Drive files and share Google Classroom content directly from Hapara. Hapara is promoted as working 'hand in hand' with Google Workspace.
• Google ClassroomcoreTechnology or IntegrationHapara integrates with Google Classroom allowing educators to sync classes and share assignments, questions and materials directly from Hapara.
• GagglecoreTechnology or IntegrationHapara partners with Gaggle to offer Gaggle Safety Management (student wellness tool) and Gaggle Web Filter. These tools provide machine learning-based content analysis, real-time web filtering, and student mental health alerts. Currently available in Southern Hemisphere for wellness.
• Microsoft (Edge Browser)coreTechnology or IntegrationHapara Highlights is also a Microsoft Edge monitoring tool for schools using Microsoft 365 for Education, giving teachers visibility into Edge browser activity.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Google Classroom: Google Classroom is the free, platform-native classroom management and assignment tool inside Google Workspace for Education. It is not a direct substitute for Hapara Highlights but represents the 'good enough' baseline against which Hapara must justify its premium add-on value.

Direct peers

• Linewize: Linewize is a New Zealand-origin K-12 student safety and classroom management vendor sharing Hapara's NZ roots and Google-first integration. It competes in overlapping international markets with comparable monitoring and filtering capabilities.
• Securly: Securly provides K-12 web filtering, student wellness monitoring, and classroom management tools integrated with Google and Microsoft. It competes head-to-head with Hapara Highlights and the Gaggle-powered wellness layer.
• GoGuardian: GoGuardian is the most direct competitor to Hapara in K-12 browser monitoring and classroom management, offering Teacher, Admin, and filtering products on ChromeOS. Both compete for the same district buyers on overlapping use cases around visibility and digital safety.
• Bark for Schools: Bark provides K-12 student safety monitoring for school-issued accounts, detecting self-harm, bullying, and violence signals. It competes with Hapara's Gaggle-powered wellness offering for the same district safety budgets.
• ContentKeeper Technologies: ContentKeeper provides K-12 web filtering, SSL inspection, and student safety tools often integrated with Google and Microsoft environments. It is comparable to Hapara on the web-filtering and safety layer of the stack.
• Gaggle: Gaggle is the partner-of-record for Hapara's safety and wellness layer, offering ML-driven student wellness monitoring and web filtering. As a competing standalone product, Gaggle is a directly comparable peer in the student safety category Hapara is expanding into.
• LanSchool: LanSchool (now part of Lenovo) is a long-standing K-12 classroom management and device monitoring tool with Chrome and Windows support. It directly competes with Hapara Highlights and Teacher Dashboard on screen visibility and instructional control.
• Lightspeed Systems: Lightspeed Systems offers K-12 web filtering, device management, and classroom management software. It targets the same district procurement cycles as Hapara and overlaps on filtering and student-safety use cases.
• Impero Software: Impero provides classroom management, device monitoring, and student safety tools for K-12 schools. Its EdLink product is comparable to Hapara Teacher Dashboard and Highlights for Chromebook environments.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds4 records

Investors6 records

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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