Chrome

Chrome is the name for Google's internet browser. It now requires people to log on to the BROWSER or it will constantly ask you to sign in. Logging on to Chrome (not just a Google website) gives you access to your extensions, bookmarks & saved passwords.

LCPS Google: Log on to Chrome with your LCPS Google account to get full access to school materials.

Username: full school email (studentID@lcps.org)

Password: normal LEAD password

You can have multiple accounts saved to your browser. This is useful for sharing a computer (with those you trust - like family on a home computer) or for switching between your school & personal Google accounts.

Chrome & Chromebooks: When you log on to a Chromebook, you are logging on to the Chrome browser. Therefore, whichever one you log on to, you'll always have the same extensions, bookmarks & passwords.

How-Tos

• Using the Omnibox (address bar) to search
• Create bookmarks
• Pin tabs
• Use an incognito window
• Add an extension: (AdBlock, Grammarly, Read&Write and G Suite Training are good ones) - NOTE: Students can only add those that LCPS has preapproved & put in the Loudoun County Public Schools section of the Chrome Web Store.
• Change the background of Chrome

Resources

• Chrome Basics video: https://youtu.be/JtKhqMTYvII
• Google Chrome Help
• Read&Write extension reference guide
  • Video playlist
• Google Tone extension (Broadcast any URL to computers within earshot)