Chrome browser

Here's Google's training info on Google Chrome Level 1: The Basics and Classroom Application (Level 2). They're easy-to-follow and quite nicely laid out. If you're feeling ambitious, here's the Advanced info.

If you're on a home computer and don't have Chrome installed, just go to chrome.google.com and click "Download Chrome" to download and install the Chrome browser software. It's free, it's fast, it's safe, and it's stable - why don't you already have it?!?

If you're on a school-owned computer, Chrome is already installed.

• What a browser is, how to find Chrome on your computer, how to log in for the first time on a computer (video - 2:15)
• New Tabs, Apps, and using Tabs while browsing (video - 2:58)
• Nov. 2013 - Change in how to access Apps (video - 1:41)
• Home button & start-up pages (video - 5:10)
• Bookmarks and Bookmarking a page (video - 5:32)
• Accounts in Chrome - Adding another account, switching between accounts, editing an account, deleting an account (video - 6:01) -This allows different users to log in to their Chrome accounts while using the same computer - handy if one person forgot to share something, or if you have multiple users but a single computer.
• Opening your PowerTeacher gradebook in Chrome (video - 2:34) - Chrome tries to protect you from malicious software; here's how to get it to stop hassling you about the gradebook software.
• Search settings, searching from the address bar, and cool Google Instant Search functions (video - 2:20)
• Benefits of signing in to Chrome (video - ) Bookmarks, Passwords & Auto-fill, plus "Other devices" in New Tab
• "Crash Course" notes

QUICK TIPS:

• Holding down the "Ctrl" key when clicking a link opens the linked page in a new tab, keeping the original tab open.
• You can drag open tabs to re-order them.
• If your mouse has a scroll wheel, you can hover the cursor over the Tabs section of the browser window and use the wheel to scrool between multiple tabs.
• You can drag a tab off the current browser window to start a second Chrome browser window (handy if you want to be able to view two pages at the same time). Re-merge the windows by dragging one tab back into the other window.
• In Windows, if you drag a window all the way to the left, it will auto-re-size to fill just the left half of the screen; you can do the same by dragging to the right (hand if you want to view two windows at once for comparison).

Below are some notes on: computers and browsers in general; some key commands; the Google Chrome browser; and the goo.gl URL shortener. You can use the hyperlinked Table of Contents at the beginning to jump to a specific section, or the "Back to ToC" links to jump back to the top of the notes. Alternatively, use the scroll bar on the side of the notes pane to scroll up or down to browse the notes.