Extensions are small software programs that can modify and enhance the functionality of the Chrome browser. They do not take you away from the current site you are working on, but rather work within that site to add useful features.
Welcome to mote: the first Chrome extension that lets you easily add transcribed voice comments and feedback to shared documents.
Mote works with Google Docs, Slides and Sheets, as well as Google Classroom.
Mote supports transcription in more than 15 world languages, including English, Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese and Portuguese.
Mote for educators:
Ask students questions and provide feedback, quickly and with human connection. Whether you're at home or in the classroom: mote helps educators and students to stay connected.
Add voice comments within Google Classroom's Stream and Private Comments views
InsertLearning is a Chrome extension that lets teachers turn any site into an interactive online lesson. InsertLearning can be loaded quickly by the user clicking on the browser extension icon and opening the toolbar. Once the toolbar pops up, teachers and students can add annotations, embed videos into websites, add maps, quizzes, discussions, and do much more
All of these extensions are great resources to support beginning and struggling readers. Check out the video for quick tutorials on how to use all of them.
"Record videos and automatically load them into the slide you are on. Use the video icon in the upper right to add video into your slide." ~Record to Slides
Save web content or screen capture directly to Google Drive.
The Save to Google Drive Chrome extension helps you save web content or browser screenshots to your Google Drive.
* Adds a browser action to save the current page.
* Adds a right-click context menu to save hyperlinks and media.
* Configurable through an options page."
~Save to Google Drive
"View definitions easily as you browse the web.
1) Double-click any word to view its definition in a small pop-up bubble.
2) View the complete definition of any word or phrase using the toolbar dictionary.
3) Store a history of words you've looked up, so you can practice them later."
~Google Dictionary
"View translations easily as you browse the web. By the Google Translate team.
Highlight or right-click on a section of text and click on Translate icon next to it to translate it to your language. Or, to translate the entire page you're visiting, click the translate icon on the browser toolbar."
~Google Translate
"I have recommended Kami a lot over the years. It’s my go-to for annotating on documents and PDF files.
The Kami Chrome extension and Drive App is probably the number one recommended PDF editor in the education space. I know many schools that use it. It is freemium, meaning you can use some features for free, and it integrates beautifully with Google Classroom."
~Shakeup Learning
"Accelerate student writing proficiency with personalized, automated feedback.
WriQ is a writing achievement tool made by Texthelp that easily assesses and motivates student writing, giving clear visibility of progress over time and delivering a standardized benchmark for grading.
Motivating students to achieve their writing goals.
WriQ has the ability to put your students in charge of their own learning. By giving each student access to their own personalized mini dashboard, they can instantly track how long they can write for before stopping (writing bursts). Positive nudge notifications spur your students on to do a little better each day, only ever in competition with themselves.
"Smarter Web reading & research. Annotate, bookmark, save, cite, manage & share online articles. Use with your Scrible.com account.
The Scrible Toolbar Extension offers the best way to annotate, tag and share online articles and webpages and save them to your scrible Account. The Extension places a scrible Button to the right of your Address Bar. While browsing the Web, click the Button to load the Scrible Toolbar on webpages and use it to:
* richly annotate articles with multiple styles (highlight, bold, underline, etc.) and colors to flag critical passages.
* capture your insights by adding sticky notes that anchor to particular parts of articles.
* categorize your annotations by type and color with dynamic legends that give meaning to your markups.
* easily share your annotated articles with others via email, Facebook, Twitter or a permalink.
* tag and save articles to your own personal Library in the cloud for easy access later.
"This extension allows the user's text to be displayed on screen on top of a web page in large type
**Only works on top of web pages, so first load a webpage like www.google.com then click the CT in the extensions bar**
CraftyText is a simple app. It allows you to enter text, which then shows up big in the center of the screen. It works on top of your favorite website. Note: no data are transmitted to the developers. The permissions requested are due to the fact that it works on top of whatever website you're browsing.
**UPDATED!** Added a Display button next to the Shorten button.
You can now shorten URL's easily with CraftyText! Paste the URL into the CraftyText window, click Shorten, and wait a moment and watch the magic!" ~Crafty Text
"A zoomed eyedropper & color chooser tool that allows you to select color values from webpages and more." ~ColorPick Eyedropper
"Adds an Edpuzzle button next to YouTube™ videos to quickly start editing them in Edpuzzle
By installing Edpuzzle's Chrome Extension, you will get a small unobtrusive button under all YouTube videos so that you can start making them into your next lesson. You don't ever have to remember to go to edpuzzle.com to plan your next video-lesson, do it anytime as you comfortably browse through your favorite educational YouTube videos." ~Edpuzzle
"Easily create mathematical equations, formulas and quizzes. Intuitively type or handwrite, with no tricky math code to learn. Until now, writing equations and math expressions on your computer has been slow and laborious.
EquatIO makes math digital, helping teachers and students at all levels create math expressions quickly and easily. Type or handwrite virtually any mathematical expression directly on your keyboard or touchscreen. There’s no need for any complicated code or programming languages.
Features:
- Easily create math expressions including equations and formulas
- Compatible with Google Docs, Forms*, Slides*, Sheets* & Drawings*
- Input via keyboard, handwriting recognition* (via touchscreen or touchpad) and voice dictation
- Guesses what you’re typing or writing - like predictive text on your smartphone*
- Hear your math expressions read out loud
- Compatible with LaTeX input for advanced users
- Create interactive digital math quizzes*
- Input student responses directly into digital quizzes*
- Chemistry formula prediction*" ~Equatio
This extension works as a shortcut to activate the Pear Deck add-on within Google Slides.