Google Chrome Extensions, Tips & Tricks

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Awesome Chrome Extensions

• Autocrat (Google Sheets Add-On): Autocrat lets you merge the spreadsheet data with a Google Doc, Sheet, or Slide. You can create a Google Form to gather information from a group of people (students, teachers, parents, etc.), then run Autocrat in the Google Sheet of results that merges the fields into a Google template you created. You can set it up so the Google Doc is automatically emailed to the participant when they complete the form.

  • • • Examples:  Peer / Teacher / Admin Feedback Form, Easily Create Certificates (Badges & Awards), Positive Postcards Home, Tutorial Documentation, Staff "Favorite" List, Dress Code Violation Form, Grading Rubric, Course Completion Certificates, and many more (just Google "Autocrat  Ideas for Educators")
        
        

• ColorPick Eyedropper: makes it possible to get the exact color match on any web page.
  
  

• Custom Cursor for Chrome:  A cool custom mouse cursor helps you personalize the web browsing experience in the Chrome browser. The Custom Cursor Chrome Extension allows you to transform your standard cursor into a fun, custom cursor. Download Custom Cursor extension now to get a stylish and elegant desktop with colorful cursors.
  
  

• Dark Reader: Dark Reader is a Chrome Extension that inverts bright colors making them high contrast and easy to read at night. You can adjust brightness, contrast, sepia filter, dark mode, font settings and ignore-list. Dark Reader doesn't show ads and doesn't send user's data anywhere. It is fully open-source and easy to use. Click here to start saving your eyes today!
  
  

• eJOY English: The eJOY extension is a must-have translator and multiple-platform learning tool for English learners! Whether you want to learn informal, daily English with movies and YouTube videos, or up your game with English idioms in the news, eJOY extension got your back.  
  
  

• Equatio: Easily create mathematical equations, formulas and quizzes. Intuitively type or handwrite, with no tricky math code to learn. Compatible with Google Docs (for free).
  
  

• GoGuardian - Extension Transparency (Displaying session information to students): Every now and then you might have a scholar raise their hand and tell you that another teacher is blocking them on GoGuardian (preventing them from completing your assignments). grab that scholar's computer, and click on the Puzzle Piece icon in the top right corner of the Chrome Browser (Google Extension Menu). Then click on "GoGuardian" and a box will pop up with active session information. Please call the other educator and ask them to end their session.
  
  

• Google Translate: View translations easily as you browse the web. By the Google Translate team. Highlight or right-click on a section of text and click on Translate icon next to it to translate it to your language. Or, to translate the entire page you're visiting, click the translate icon on the browser toolbar. 
  
  

• Graspable Math: Use this extension to open a sidebar that lets you work on any algebra on the page. After you drag and drop formulas into the sidebar or enter them directly, you can then interact with the terms to create algebraic derivations. Drag and drop from other pages than Wikipedia might or might not work. Contact us about adding support for your favorite page!
  
  

• Immersive Reader: Immersive Reader is a Microsoft tool to help emerging readers understand text. This tool is jam-packed with features. You can have it read text to you (even with an optional line focus overlay feature), translate entire documents or single words (over 100 languages supported), has a picture dictionary to help readers understand the words in a visual form, offers a really cool grammar tool that allows you to highlight different parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs), and allows you to adjust text preferences (text size, text spacing, and font type).
  
  

• Nearpod (A Google Slides Extension): Are you looking for a way to make your Google Slide Presentations more interactive? If so, add the Nearpod Google Slides Add-On right now! You'll wonder how you've managed to live without it. Embed the magic of Nearpod directly into Google Slides by following the 3 simple steps described here (or feel free to watch this Nearpod video instead).
  
  

• Nearpod for Classroom: Nearpod’s Google Chrome extension for Google Classroom allows teachers to create Nearpod Assignments within Classroom.  Teachers will have the ability to access their Nearpod Library and assign Live and Student-Paced lessons directly to Google Classroom. This extension is free, easy-to-use, and available to users of any subscription type.
  
  

• Page Marker: Draw on any website, add text, add lines, and highlight! With Page Marker, you can use your mouse or touchscreen to draw on the web or on PDFs and save it to your computer. Paint, draw, and mark on any webpage or website.
  
  

• Print Friendly: Easily transforms a website into a printable PDF. Allows you to remove unwanted ads, pictures, and more.
  
  

• Open Dyslexic: This Chrome extension is an open-sourced font created specifically for users with dyslexia. Open Dyslexic will help to reformat fonts to be more easily readable. It doesn't work on every site, but it does change the font on most sites.
  
  

• Rememberry - Translate and Memorize: Rememberry - Translate and Memorize is an extension to translate words and phrases while browsing the web and easily replenish your foreign languages dictionary using flashcards. Translate any text while browsing and save it if you wish to memorize it.
  
  

• Remote For Slides (A Google Slides Clicker): Are you fed up with being tied to your keyboard, or smartboard, in order to switch slides in a presentation? If so, then add the Remote for Slides extension and turn your smartphone into a presentation clicker. After you add the extension, open a slide deck and click the “Present w/ Remote” button in Google Slides. Then pull out your phone and go to remoteforslides.com and enter the 6-digit code that is on your Slide screen. Boom! Your phone is now a presentation clicker.
  
  

• Rubik's Cube: Play Rubik's Cube right in your browser. Practice playing on the digital Rubik's cube today. The goal of this game is to get all the colors of the cube to align correctly together. It's a simple and fun game which will test your brain and mental skills. Try using this Rubik's cube today.
  
  

• ScreenCastify: Screencastify lets you record video from your device to playback later and share. You can even edit the video to perfect it before you put it to good use (the blur tool is really useful if you need to hide students names). That means being able to give a presentation across multiple websites, with highlights on the screen and your face in the corner via webcam, to name just one option. Of course this can also be used by students, so it can make for another tool in the teacher toolbox that enables students to expand their digital abilities. Get the Chrome Extension by clicking here. Important Note: The district does not pay for Screencastify, but the free version allows you to record up to 10 videos (each recording can be up to 30 minutes in length). The files are stored in your Google Drive folder, so just be sure to move your videos from the "Screencastify" folder into a different Google Drive folder in order to not reach your 10 video limit.
  
  

• Sir Links-A-Lot: Sir Links-a-Lot is an extension that will modify Google App file URLs. With a few clicks, teachers can modify the link to their Google files without having to manually alter the URL code. Teachers can quickly and easily develop four types of unique URL links for their files: 1. Force a Copy  2. Preview  3. Template  4. PDF (you can also achieve this without using the extension by changing a specific part of your Google App URL; to learn more about that, please click here).
  
  

• Slides Randomizer (Google Slides Add-On):  Have you ever wanted your slides to be in a random order?  This is useful when studying for a test or when you want to change up a classroom presentation. Slide Randomizer is a simple add-on that allows the user to easily and randomly reorder any slide deck.  When used, the presentation will be quickly and efficiently randomized. Users can choose to randomize all slides, selected slides or pairs of slides. Most keep the first page un-randomized to allow for a stationary title slide.
  
  

• Text Blaze: Text Blaze is a free app that saves time and increases quality by automating repeated typing tasks anywhere on the web. Users save text snippets and insert them anywhere using predefined keyboard shortcuts. See it in action by clicking here.
  
  

• Tide – Focus Timer & White Noise: This productivity tool aims to do just what it’s called. It can give you natural white noise and a customizable focus timer. You’ll be able to track your focus statistics all in one place.
  
  

• Toucan - Language Learning: Learn a new language just by browsing the internet. Toucan helps you learn a new language while you browse the web. No classes, flash cards or study sessions. Just sign up and go about your day like normal. When you visit a website, Toucan automatically translates certain words and phrases on the page into the language you’re trying to learn. That way, you can learn words in your new language within the context of a language you’re already comfortable with.
  
  

• Translate My Slide (Google Slides Add-On) is (as its name implies) an add-on created to translate your Google Slide Deck in as little as one click. This simple Google Add-on allows you to translate your slide(s) in more than 100 languages! With the add-on, you can decide on whether or not you want to translate a single slide, or the entire slide deck with just one click.
  
  

• Water Walk: If you are a walker like me, or if you are trying to get a little healthier in the new year, this extension is for you. It will remind you to get up from your computer and move around. You can set the timer to remind you every 15, 30, or 60 minutes. Not So Fun Fact: For each hour that you sit, it increases the chances of heart disease by 14%. Get walking, my friends!

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