Chrome Extensions are added to your Chrome browser and add functionality to your Chrome experience. Add-Ons are specific to a Google app, such as Docs or Drive. Use Extensions and Add-Ons to enhance teaching pedagogy, create content, & improve productivity.
Chrome Extensions & Add-Ons - 2022-2023 Updates
(Forward video to 6:18) Instead of leaving text comments in Docs and Slides, leave video comments instead. Recordings can include just the webcam, or your screen as well!
*Also possible with Screencastify, which has better video editing options. You SIH Library can show you how!*
Turn any Google Doc into a fill-in-the-blank worksheet. Automatically replaces selected words & provides a word bank at the bottom.
Does what it says; convert a Googel Doc into a Google Slide with the click of a button. New pages in Slides is determined by the <eneter> in Docs. Combine with templates from SlidesMania to quickly create beautifyl slides
Chrome Extensions
Click on the extension to bring you to the extension in the Chrome Web Store.
Mote extension also allows you to quickly create & insert voice notes in Slides.
Mote can also be used to create audio notes in Gmail & Forms. Don't type your text, speak it and let your voice be heard.
Screencastify allows you to record, edit & share screen recordings. Files are automatically saved to Drive. Great for both teachers & students to create tutorials. Click here for some excellent 2021 recent updates to Screencastify.
Flipgrid is a simple & accessible video discussion experience for teachers & students. The Flipgrid extension allows you to easily access Flipgrid assignments. Click here for a tutorial on screen recording with Flipgrid.
Draftback lets you play back the revision history of any Google Doc you can edit. Great for checking the timelines of student work.
Automatically saves meeting transcript (including meeting name and timestamps), saves chat messages when open, and option to take screenshots. File is saved to your Drive.
Have any text on a website read aloud, translated & more! Excellent for students that need support with reading or learning English.
Annotate on any web page, including Google Slides & Docs. Annotations can be saved & reloaded later. Click here for an excellent example of how to use with Google Slides
Make any webpage interactive by directly inserting questions and insight. Turns any static website into an active learning experience.
With ColorZilla you can get a colour reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this colour and paste it into another program. And it can do so much more...
See your next events & get meeting notifications without opening the Google Calendar page.
Quickly browse your Google Drive files without opening a webpage and get notifications to your shared documents.
View fullscreen Slides while staying in edit mode. Slides remain interactive and editable while viewed fullscreen.
Found a webpage, image, or quote that you want to save for later? With the Google Keep Chrome Extension, easily save the things you care about to Keep.
View translations easily as you browse the web. Highlight a section of text and click the Translate icon next to it to translate it to your language. Translate an entire webpage by clicking the translate icon on the browser toolbar.
Great for ESL students & teachers!
Mercury Reader removes ads and distractions, leaving only text and images for a clean and consistent reading view on every site.
Podcastle converts text news/articles to a podcast, with very natural human speech using machine learning.
Lets you quickly search files in Google Drive and get results using the URL address bar (i.e Omnibar). Just type "drive"+spacebar to the address bar then enter your query.
The Save to Google Drive Chrome extension helps you save web content or browser screenshots to your Google Drive.
Splitscreen made easy. Resize the CURRENT tab & tabs to the RIGHT into layouts on separate windows.
Discover webpages similar to the page you're currently browsing. Trying to find more pages about a topic you're researching, but having a hard time coming up with the right query on Google? Google Similar Pages can help!
Search scholarly articles as you browse the web. This extension adds a browser button for easy access to Google Scholar from any web page. Click the Scholar button to find full text, search Google Scholar, format references & save articles to your library.
Displays the number of unread messages in your Google Mail inbox. You can also click the button to open your inbox.
Add a simple menu to your browser bar to quickly create new Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings and Forms for Google Drive.
Fun custom cursors for Chrome. Use a large collection of free cursors or upload your own.
All the GIFs and Stickers from GIPHY.com in a compact extension. Just search, then drag and drop!
Emojis For Chrome extension lets you input emojis right in a web browser. It also comes with a search functionality that helps easily get emoji.
JoyPixels claim it is the world's leading emoji keyboard for Chrome. Use it in emails, Google Classroom assignment titles and/or directions.
Provides text-to-speech, dictionary tool (text & picture option), and easy-to-create vocabulary Doc (highlight words to be defined & create dictionary Doc with one click).
This is auto-installed on all @tbcschools.ca accounts.
See visual timelines of when students are working on Google Classroom assignments. Highlights rapid changes that may indicate copy-paste. Works with any Google file that has a revision history (Docs, Slides, Sheets). Great for essays & lab reports.
Quickly draw simple coloured lines in your browser. Easily change colours & pen sizes scrolling the mouse wheel. Use it during presentations to highlight content or draw simple schemas.
Google Slides Add-Ons
Record video & video feedback without ever leaving the Google Slides editor. Note: Although exclusive to Slides, this is technically a Chrome extension.
Add live audience engagement to Google Slides with multiple-choice or open-ended questions, polls & surveys, clickable images, word clouds, etc. Note - Although it works best in Slides, this is technically a Chrome extension.
Instantly create live polls & add Q&A to your presentation as you're working on your slides.
Insert beautiful, free-to-use high-resolution images into any Slides presentation easily.
Change boring font colours in your documents to a rainbow-tastic feast. Rainbow colours are applied on the selected text/paragraphs.
Make Google Slides presentations interactive with Nearpod. The Nearpod add-on makes it easy.
Get access to millions of high-quality icons from Noun Project. For icons from Beyoncé to Venn diagrams, we got you covered. Also available for Docs.
Flaticon is the largest icon database. With this extension, you will have free access to our icons. Also works in Docs, Slides, Forms & Sheets
Import photos from Drive of Google Photos into your Slides. Each photo in the album is added as a new slide.
Add timers (countdown & countup) and/or current time to your Slides presentation
Allows users to easily insert accents for different languages directly from a sidebar in their Google Slides. Also available in Docs
Add music notation to your documents using Flat's editor in Google Docs and Google Slides. Also works in Docs Note: This is for Slides even though Docs is in the name.
Makes it possible to add a new slide to existing Google Slide presentations. Great for Google Classroom assignments where you can assign a Google Slide, then push-out updates & new slides at a later date.
Google Docs Add-Ons
Change boring font colours in your documents to a rainbow-tastic feast. Rainbow colours are applied on the selected text/paragraphs.
Doc to Form Add on - Creating the Form.webmDoc to Form allows you to quickly and easily create a Google Form from within a Doc. Simply select text and click a button to add your questions. Ideal for converting traditional worksheets to Google Forms. Click here for part 2 of the video.
Get access to millions of high-quality icons from Noun Project. For icons from Beyoncé to Venn diagrams, we got you covered. Also available for Slides.
Flaticon is the largest icon database. With this extension, you will have free access to our icons. Also works in Docs, Slides, Forms & Sheets
Allows users to easily insert accents for different languages directly from a sidebar in their Google Docs. Also available in Slides.
Use Flat's web-based music notation editor to quickly create music notation or tablature for your Google Docs. Also works in Slides.
Generates a downloadable word cloud.
Turn any Google Doc into a fill-in-the-blank worksheet. Automatically replaces selected words & provides a word bank at the bottom.
Google Forms Add-Ons
Choice Eliminator will eliminate options from a multiple-choice, dropdown, or checkbox type of question. Great for signing up for time slots or having students choose topics without doubling up.
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.
Appends Google Form question responses to the bottom of selected Google Docs.
Create and configure email notifications for response thresholds and Form respondents. This setting exists natively in Forms (click here), but with this add-on you can change how many people complete the form before you are notified
Flaticon is the largest icon database. With this extension, you will have free access to our icons. Also works in Docs, Slides, Forms & Sheets. Note: This video is specific to Slides, but it also works in Forms.
Turn your Google Form into an efficient online quiz: enable time, camera and screen tracking to monitor students’ behavior and prevent cheating.