Chromebooks for the Classroom
Why Chromebooks
Why Chromebooks
- Relatively inexpensive
- Quick Start Up
- Durability
- Pushing Extensions and Apps
- Easily controlled and configured by system administrators
- Profile Settings follow the student
- Each Chromebook is personalized to the person that is logged in
- You don’t have to be connected to the Internet to use a Chromebook
- Automatically Updates software to latest OS
- Great battery life
- Built-in anti virus protection
Basic Use
Basic Use
Logging in
Logging in
- Existing user of the Chromebook
- New User user to the Chromebook
- New Google user
- Guest Mode
Add Supervised User
- See which websites they visited
- Block websites
- Prevent them from installing apps and extensions
- Turn on SafeSearch (turned on by default)
- Change their settings
The Status Area
The Status Area
- Who is signed in
- Accessibility
- Network
- Bluetooth
- Volume
- Settings
- Help
- Lock
- Shut down
Setting the Download Preference
Setting the Download Preference
Places to Download
Places to Download
- Downloads
- A sub-folder in downloads
- A folder on Google Drive
- An external Device - helpful if your students are sending you large files which cannot be converted to one of Google’s file formats
The Keyboard
The Keyboard
crtl+alt=? shows hidden keys
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Apps and Extensions
Apps and Extensions
and Add-Ons
and Add-Ons
Apps vs Extensions
Managing Extensions
Extensity
Add -Ons
