READ&WRITE FOR CHROME

ORBITNOTE

SCREENSHOT READER

Read&Write for Google Chrome™ provides personalized support, making documents, web pages, and Google Drive files (including PDFs & ePub) more accessible. This toolbar can help everyone engage with digital content in a way that suits their ability and learning style.

Read&Write’s powerful support toolbar helps you gain confidence with reading, writing, studying and research, through these features, and more:

• Text-to-speech let’s you hear words, passages, or whole documents read aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting

• Text and picture dictionaries, gives easy word definitions and sentence examples

• With speech-to-text, dictate words to assist with writing, proofreading & studying

• Intuitive word prediction as you type makes sentence construction easy and quick 

• Collect highlights from text in documents or the web to summarize lengthy content in seconds

• Turn documents into audio files, for easy listening offline.

• Reduce visual stress with Screen masks and tints

• Convert PDFs to Word, and have them read aloud.

• Simplify online text, remove ads and other visual distractions.

Tech Support

Video Support

Tool Matcher

User Resources

Use OrbitNote to transform and interact with digital documents in a completely different way! With OrbitNote you can make digital documents accessible and actionable, while demonstrating and giving feedback in multiple formats. It’s a great tool to boost productivity, connections and collaboration!

Open digital documents in Google Drive, OneDrive, on the web app, in your LMS (Google Classroom and Schoology), or on your local device, then use OrbitNote to:

• Collaborate in real-time within digital documents

• Read text, including math & science equations, aloud with easy-to-follow dual color highlighting

• Type text on top of your PDFs with the Text feature

• Highlight and extract information with colored highlighters

• Add text and voice comments or use pushpins for helpful hints or instructions

• Use freehand or shape drawing to scribble and draw on your digital documents

OrbitNote PDF Reader YouTube playlist

OCR Scanning for PDFs that are images

This extension provides OCR for users of Read & Write for Google Chrome.

TextHelp Support website

Screenshot Reader directions-half way down the webpage

ADBLOCK PLUS

ANY.DO

EXTENSITY

Adblock Plus is an easy-to-use ad blocker that blocks video and social media advertising.

There are certain websites (like EasyBib) that will not work with Adblock Plus enabled for the website. You can disable ABP for a specific website by clicking on the extension in the extension bar.

Any.do is an award-winning app used by millions of people to stay organized and get more done. Organize your tasks, lists and reminders in one easy to-do app. Any.do syncs seamlessly across all of your devices, making your to-do list accessible everywhere.

Extensity is the ultimate tool for lightning fast enabling and disabling all your extensions for Google Chrome. Just enable the extension when you want to use it, and disable when you want to get rid of it for a little while. You can also launch Chrome Apps right from the list.

FULL PAGE SCREEN CAPTURE

GOOGLE KEEP EXTENSION

IORAD

Capture a screenshot of your current page in entirety and reliably—without requesting any extra permissions! The simplest way to take a full page screenshot of your current browser window. Click on the extension icon (or press Alt+Shift+P), watch the extension capture each part of the page, and be transported to a new tab of your screenshot where you can download it as an image or PDF or even just drag it to your desktop. *NEW:* The advanced screen capture technology handles complex pages—including inner scrollable elements as well as embedded iframes—unlike any other extension. If you encounter an issue, please report it via the customer support flag icon on the capture page, so we can improve the extension for you and everyone else who uses it.

With the Google Keep Chrome Extension, easily save the things  you care about  to Keep and have them synced across all of the platforms that you use — including web, Android, iOS, and Wear. Take notes for additional detail and add labels to quickly categorize your note for later retrieval.

iorad is the quickest and easiest tutorial creator on the web. No time wasted video editing or picture labeling. Instantly make guided, step-by-step directions for any website directly in the browser. Interact (browse, click, type) with a website as you normally would. iorad captures and identifies every action. iorad automatically generates a step-by-step tutorial for you to share. 

LOOM

MOTE

ONETAB

Capture, narrate and instantly share videos to communicate faster, clearer and friendlier. With one-click to record, one-click to finish and a publicly shareable URL automatically copied to your clipboard, Loom is changing desktop communication as we know it by making video easy and fun to use.

Mote is a Chrome Extension that makes it easy for anyone to add voice notes and feedback to documents and assignments. With Mote, we've created the fastest, friendliest and most flexible way to give feedback.

Whenever you find yourself with too many tabs, click the OneTab icon to convert all of your tabs into a list. When you need to access the tabs again, you can either restore them individually or all at once.

PERMANENT CLIPBOARD

POLL EVERYWHERE FOR GOOGLE SLIDES

PRINT FRIENDLY & PDF

This extension allows you to save browser clipboard element with friendly name at your fingertips. Now you can store things like answer templates for discussion forums.

Poll Everywhere allows you to transform one-way presentations into a lively conversation with the entire room. Using the smartphones and devices people carry every day, participants can submit live responses straight to the Google slide. 

Print Friendly removes ads, navigation and junk before your print. Pages are optimized for the ultimate print reading experience. Click-to-delete any content before printing. Remove all images or individual images. Change the text size from larger to smaller. Generate PDFs for archiving, sharing, or saving. PDFs include clickable links, and source URL so you can continue to interact.

While the app may work off FPS network, to use it on the FPS network:

1. Copy the URL of the page you wish to print.

2. Go to https://www.printfriendly.com/ 

3. Paste the URL into box at the top of the website and click Preview.

4. Remove the ads, text, or media you don't want printed. Print or PDF the website.

UNHOOK

WAKELET

Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended & Shorts. Hide YouTube related videos, shorts, comments, suggestions wall, homepage recommendations, trending, and other distractions. A browser extension to remove YouTube distractions, including the recommended sidebar, shorts, endscreen video suggestions, user comments, homepage related videos feed, trending tab, turn off autoplay or annotations, and more. Toggle the options through the popup to customize your own YouTube experience! Compatible with mobile YouTube, m.youtube.com, through Firefox on Android. Also works on video embeds.

With Wakelet, you can quickly and easily save the content that matters to you, whether it’s an article, blog, video, image, song, tweet or anything else you find online. You can then organize your bookmarks into stunning, visual collections, add your own notes and images, and share them as a single link. Save, organize and share content from across the web in just two clicks!

DOC TOOLS

EASY ACCENTS

EQUATION EDITOR++

A set of single-click tools to change case, highlight text, sort tables and lists, change numbers to text, and more. This add-on gives you thirteen straightforward tools that take on all minor adjustments in your document.

This Add-on allows users to easily insert accents for different languages directly from a sidebar in their Google Doc.

Put equations in Google Docs or Slides with the power of LaTeX and the simplicity of a graphical editor. This editor is based on MathQuill, the same GUI-based math editor used by the popular online graphing calculator Desmos. LaTeX can also be inserted directly.

LUCIDCHART DIAGRAMS

MLA/APA FORMATTER

STICKITY

Lucidchart is a visual workspace that combines diagramming, data visualization, and collaboration to accelerate understanding and drive innovation. With this intuitive, cloud-based solution, everyone can work visually and collaborate in real-time while building flowcharts, mockups, UML diagrams, and more. 

MLA Formatter is a simple and easy way to format your document to MLA standards. It changes the font size and family, makes the document double spaced, inserts a heading with your name, teacher, class, and date, centers the title, inserts a header with your last name, and indents the first line of the first paragraph.

Introducing Stickity! Seamlessly integrate digital stickers into Google Docs and Google Slides. All stickers are designed with accessibility and inclusion in mind. All stickers are automatically inserted with alt text for screen readers. White outline is intentional so that all graphics meet WCAG guidelines for color contrast. Using stickers consistently provides a sense of routine and predictability that eases anxiety for students on the Autism spectrum as well as students with general anxiety disorders. Add Stickity to Google Docs and/or Google Slides.

FLUBAROO

LUCIDCHART DIAGRAMS

FOXY LABELS

Flubaroo is a free tool that helps you quickly grade multiple-choice or fill-in-blank assignments. Flubaroo also: computes average assignment score, computes average score per question, and flags low-scoring questions, shows you a grade distribution graph, gives you the option to email each student their grade, and an answer key, and lets you send individualized feedback to each student.

Lucidchart is a visual workspace that combines diagramming, data visualization, and collaboration to accelerate understanding and drive innovation. With this intuitive, cloud-based solution, everyone can work visually and collaborate in real-time while building flowcharts, mockups, UML diagrams, and more. 

➤ Create and print perfectly aligned labels with no computer skills ➤ Merge data from Google Sheets ➤ Customize labels with fonts and colors ➤ Insert images, QR and barcodes ➤ Design each label individually ➤ Free from advertising and watermarks ➤ Our templates are 100% compatible with Avery® labels 

CERTIFY'EM

DOC APPENDER

FAST FORM ON/OFF

Certify'em lets you leverage the power of Google Forms to create online certifications and email custom certificates to exam-takers! Get started with installing the Forms Add-on. Certify'em comes with several professionally designed certificate templates, and allows you to specify your own as well.

Use a Google Form to select which Doc(s) to append from a list, multiple-choice, or checkbox Form question -- pre-populated with Doc titles from a folder in Drive. Ideas for use: *Keep a Google Doc per student where you log a running record of observations around a particular skill, like reading or numeracy. *Use for documenting teach inter-visitations, where each teacher gets a single running document of all visits to their classroom. *Great for applying custom, Forms-based rubric assessments on student documents; Just choose the folder that contains all student Docs and get on with grading all "turned in" docs in your own way.

Fast Form On/Off is a very useful Google Forms Add-on  useful to limit the number of responses in a Google Form. You can also use the Fast Keyboard option to add specials characters in the form. Fast Keyboard let you add special character in few seconds in Google Forms. You can add Subscript and Superscript very fast. You can add maths functions like x²+y²=25. You can also add Emojis.

FORMLIMITER

HYPATIA CREATE

QUILGO

formLimiter shuts off a Google Form after a max number of responses, at a date and time, or when a spreadsheet cell equals a value. formLimiter automatically sets Google Forms to stop accepting responses after a maximum number of responses, at a specific date and time, or when a spreadsheet cell contains a specified value.

Hypatia offers an unparalleled user experience, this will be your fastest math editor hands down. Hypatia is free for teachers to prepare their teaching materials. Students can use Hypatia free for their work. Key features include: * Easy-to-use user interface with the fastest math equation editor in Google’s G-Suite Marketplace; * User entered math can be easily edited from menu driven editor; * Sidebar facilitates inserting and editing math; * Syncing between the document/presentation and the add-on; * Imports MathType equations automatically; * Use Mathpix to screen-grab an equation and copy/paste it directly into Hypatia; * Build your formulas using math LaTeX commands

Quilgo turns Google Forms into online skill assessments and exams. It was designed for HRs, schools, universities and other educational institutions.

Embed a timer with custom duration

Track start and submission time

Make video snapshots of your respondents

Force your forms to close when time is over

LUCIDCHART DIAGRAM

PEAR DECK

SLIDES RANDOMIZER

Lucidchart is a visual workspace that combines diagramming, data visualization, and collaboration to accelerate understanding and drive innovation. With this intuitive, cloud-based solution, everyone can work visually and collaborate in real-time while building flowcharts, mockups, UML diagrams, and more. 

With the Pear Deck for Google Slides Add-on, you can add the magic of Pear Deck’s formative assessments and interactive questions to your presentations. Design a new presentation or open an existing Google Slide deck and edit. With the Add-on enabled, you can add interactive questions right from the easy-to-use sidebar.   

The OTT-o-matic Slide Randomizer is a simple add-on that allows one 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 or can keep the Title Slide if desired.  

GOOGLE CHAT

GOOGLE VOICE

CLICK ON THE NEW CHAT BUTTON IN THE UPPER LEFT CORNER.

Chat is an intelligent and secure communications tool, built for teams. From direct messages to team chat rooms, Hangouts Chat provides an integrated platform that makes team communication easy and efficient. Share and discuss Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides all in one place.

Get Started with Hangouts Chat

Hangouts Chat Help

Chat and Meet for Hangouts-Chrome extension

Using the Chrome extension to go between Hangouts Meet and Hangouts Chat

NOTE: YOU WILL NEED TO USE A PERSONAL GOOGLE ACCOUNT TO USE GOOGLE VOICE; GOOGLE VOICE IS NOT SUPPORTED BY THE DISTRICT

When users sign up for Google Voice, they are given one phone number that is connected to them across devices and locations, working with mobile phones, desk phones, work phones, and VoIP lines. This enables users to manage all of their phones with one number, letting users customize what phone will ring based on specific callers.

Get Started with Google Voice

Google Voice Tutorial-YouTube video