Google Docs Smart Chips
Want to give each students access to a stop watch ⏱️ within a Google Doc – to keep track of the amount of time they've spent on a particular task? Move your cursor to the location within the Doc where you want the stop watch to be placed. Type “@” and then “stopwatch”. You can also use the Doc Insert menu & scroll down to Smart chips to find the stop watch smart chip.
Recently Announced Smart Chips:
@stopwatch ⏱️ (now)
@timer ⌛ (soon)
@voting 🗳️ (upcoming)
Borders & Shading 🕶️
Liven up the appearance of your Google Doc with borders and shading. The Border and shading menu is located in the Paragraph styles option of the Format menu.
Position = where you want the border to appear. Tip: if you want to just add a line to separate sections of text, choose only the bottom border.
Border width = border thickness
Border dash = 3 choices
Border color = line color
Background color = the color fill inside the bordered area
Paragraph padding = amount of space before and after the bordered area
Reopen Closed Tabs
If you accidentally close a Chrome tab, there are a few ways to reopen. The first, demonstrated to the left, is the right-click method. Simple right-click in the tab space at the top of the Chrome browser and select Reopen closed tab. You can reopen multiple closed tabs by repeating the process.
A second method is to click on the “Search tabs” dropdown menu 🔽 located next to the Minimize tool in the top right-hand side of Google Chrome tabs. Open tabs, and Recently closed tabs will be displayed. Select which tab you'd like to reopen. You can also search tabs 🔍 by typing in the text box what you're looking for.
Ctrl + Shift + T on your Surface Pro will also reopen the last Chrome tab.
Creating Reading Lists
What do you do when you come across a bunch of great websites, but don't have the time to fully explore them at the moment? Add them to a Reading List! Chrome gives you the ability to easily save webpages to read later in a Reading list, without having to add a new bookmark.
Your Chrome Reading List can be accessed by clicking on the square 🔲 icon to the left of your avatar in the URL bar. Once open, add pages to your reading list by clicking on the “+ Add current tab” button.
Pages saved to your reading list can be read without an internet connection 🤯