Useful Chrome Apps & Extensions
Apps and Extensions are useful tools that can help streamline your workflow. They can also help you complete tasks without having to open multiple apps or browser windows which save you time and helps keep your computer running more efficiently. Please note - if you have too many extensions running at the same time it can impact the speed of your browser. The key is to only enable the extensions you are actively using (the Switcher extension makes managing your apps and extensions easy.)
Add Apps and Extensions to your account from the Chrome Web Store.
Apps - Applications that work within your Chrome Browser. Some applications run a program within your browser and others will act as links directing you to the online site to use the app.
Class Charts helps organize students into appropriate learning groups and minimizes school behavior issues.
Classroom is a new tool in Google Apps for Education that helps teachers create and organize assignments quickly, provide feedback efficiently, and easily communicate with their classes. Classroom helps students organize their work in Google Drive, complete and turn it in, and communicate directly with their teachers and peers.
Quickly capture what's on your mind and share those thoughts with friends and family. Speak a voice memo on the go and have it automatically transcribed. Grab a photo of a poster, receipt or document and easily organize or find it later in search.
IPEVO Presenter is specifically designed for the IPEVO family of document cameras, and it's packed full of features to help you get the very most out of your camera. Helpful tools including: Live View, which delivers immediate real-time video from your IPEVO camera; Review mode for snapshots; an up to 6x digital zoom; and much more.
We created LiveBinders so that you could do with digital information what you do with the papers on your desk - organize them into nice containers, like the 3-ring binders on your shelf. With our online-binders, you can also upload your documents and easily combine them with your links into a neat and organized package for sharing or presenting.
Capture the web page, either part of it or the whole browser window, edit your screenshots in a very user-friendly interface. Record screencasts - record video from your screen.
You can use Plotly for scientific-quality graphing
PowToon is an easy to use web application that allows you to wow your audience. Use PowToon to create: * Sales presentations * Landing Page Videos * Educational Videos * Product Demos * Explainers * Media Clips * Social Content
RealtimeBoard is your online whiteboard for visual team collaboration. Add pictures, mockups, drawings, videos, sticky notes, office documents and Google Drive files on an endless canvas, discuss it with your colleagues, and enjoy the smoothest real-time visual collaboration without emails.
Scribble Maps is the quick and easy way to create and share custom maps, even without an account!
A beautifully simple Stopwatch & Timer for every use from sports, to work, to cooking. The stopwatch has laps and large easy to read digits that resize with your window. The timer can count down from up to 99 hours and has a choice of presets and alarms. You may pin the app window on top of other windows or make the app fullscreen.
Use this timer to do a countdown or set an alarm. Simply and easy to use!
WeVideo makes video editing easy for everyone and accessible from anywhere.
Extensions - Chrome extensions are add-ons that enhance the feature available in your browser. They allow you to complete tasks without leaving the website you're working on.
Used by over 50 million people, a free ad blocker for Chrome that blocks ALL annoying ads, malware, and tracking.
This extension adds the current site to Google Classroom
Have your students install this extension to allow students to have their Google Classroom directions side by side with their work
Teachers, when grading digital work use this extension to bring up your gradebook side by side with the students work.
Allows you to schedule messages to be sent or returned at a later date.
Diigo Web Collector - Capture and Annotate
Bookmark, Archive, Screenshot & Markup ‐ All‐In‐One Web Collector, must‐have research tool
Use the Evernote extension to save things you see on the web into your Evernote account.
*** Extensions Manager (aka Switcher) - highly recommended if you have multiple extensions
Handy extensions, applications & themes manager.
This extensions saves form data and then restores it when you want it. ﴾For testing.﴿
Input Tools lets you type in the language of your choice.
Quickly capture what's on your mind and share those thoughts with friends and family.
Lookup scholarly articles as you browse the web.
Allows you to store and access multiple elements in clipboard
Over 10 million people use Pocket to easily save articles, videos and more for later.
Boost reading and writing confidence. Offer support for Google Docs/web to students with learning difficulties, dyslexia or ELL/ESL.
Save web content or screen capture directly to Google Drive.
Pocket Extension for Chrome ‐ The best way to save articles, videos and more.
Screencastify (Screen Video Recorder)
Screencastify is a simple video screen capture software for Chrome.
Get your class on the same ﴾web﴿page, instantly.
The extension records your voice and saves the recordings as an audio file.
Tired of reading? Select text you want to read and listen to it. SpeakIt converts text into speech so you no longer need to read.
Tab Resize - split screen layouts
Split Screen made easy. Resize the CURRENT tab and tabs to the RIGHT into layouts on separate windows. w/ Multi Monitor Support.
Save and restore window sessions over time and across multiple computers.
Screenshot capture.
Manage your tabs, improve your browsing, and maintain your sanity when you have many tabs open.
Tile your windows with a single click.