Google Chrome

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• Check and update Chrome - Click HERE

• Set Home Page

  • The district manages the Home page in Chrome on your school computer.

    • It is set to:

      • https://sites.google.com/site/beatricepublicschoolsstaffpage/

    • You can add pages if you wish:

    • If you'd like to see a set of pages each time you open Chrome

      • Go to Chrome menu - Settings - On Startup

      • Open a specific page or set of pages and click Set pages.

      • Enter the webpage's address and click OK.

    • If you'd like to see the "Home" button

      • Go to Chrome menu > Settings > Appearance

      • Select the Show Home button checkbox.

      • Click Change to update what page you'd like to use as the home page.

• Manage pop ups in Chrome

• Pin Tabs and Homepage

• Three Simple Chrome Tips

• Click here to download and get information about Google Chrome

• Chrome App for iPad

• Chrome App for Android

• 100Chrome Tips

• Chrome 100 tidbits

Google Chrome Extensions:

• Draftback

  • See history on a document - how it was entered, etc. You can see on a student document if they have pasted a block of text in.

• Voicenote

  • Speech to Text! Use your mic - talk - and this app will do the typing for you!

• Explain and Send Screenshots

  • Capture and mark up screenshots of webpages to save and send.

• Watch Doc

  • Keep track of updates to your shared Google Docs!

• To Do List

  • Easy way to keep tract of simple lists.

• WeVideo

  • Video Editing for Google Drive!!

• Google Dictionary by Google

  • Double click a word and a definition will appear in a pop-up bubble. Several languages are supported.

• Speak it

  • This is a simple text to speech browser extension. Once Select and Speak is installed, just highlight any text on a webpage, click the Select and Speak icon in your browser, and listen to the reading of the text.

• Awesome Screenshot

  • Capture and Annotate! Capture the whole page or any portion, annotate it with rectangles, circles, arrows, lines and text, blur sensitive info - one-click upload to share.

• Cloud Save

  • Right Click items on a webpage and save them directly to the cloud. Many cloud storage services are supported.

• Send to Google Docs

  • Allows you to upload a pdf version of the current page to your Google Docs (drive)

• Dropbox

  • All your Dropbox files, right on your Chrome Toolbar!

• Awesome New Tab Page

  • When you click for a new tab, this app brings up a cool new page!

• Read & Write in Chrome

  • Hear words, passage, or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting. See meanings of words and even images to explain what a word means.