Chromebook Care
The care and feeding of chromebooks.
Where did they put those settings you need and what can be done to touble shoot these devices. Fixing your chrome book is not a difficult as you think. Come and find out.
Students can do the most interesting things to their computers! And teachers somtimes aren't sure what to do about it. Where did they put those settings you need and what can be done to touble shoot these devices. Fixing your chrome book is not a difficult as you think. Come and find out. We will spend time with the chromebook and its operating system so you help your students more effectively. We will focus on the chome OS and leave the Google Apps for Education dashboard to your techie. Let's not let the machine get in the way of Learning!
Slides are at: https://goo.gl/4pH2fA
Use this Tool to Run a Checkup on Your Chrome Health - YouTube
Resources for the care and feeding of Chromebooks
Updates make it self healing as does power wash-- You can not permanently break it!
The "Boss" account-- device owner
Supervised user-Create & manage supervised users - Chromebook Help
add an account-
dead battery- push it all the way in wait 10 minutes
dark screen-- dead battery
my name is gone-- add it back on -- add a person
track pad- Use your Chromebook touchpad - Chromebook Help
menus up front--volumne , speaker, microphone
bluetooth,
the wifi isn't connected? wifi- network, on/off, adress, Join other, (ssid,security,password, advanced--proxy direct, automatic, manual,)
accessibilty,(kids mess with this)ChromeVox, large cursor, high contrast mode, screen magifer, onscreen keyboard,
us keyboard( kids mess with this too)
Frozen --
Refresh
power off power on
hard reset (not the same as power wash and reset on the settings menus)
Refresh + Power.
acer 710 - remove battery
Acer 720 Refresh + Power.
Samsung 303c Refresh + Power.
HP 11G3 Refresh + Power.
Tech Tip #121: Chromebooks Caps Lock | Ask a Tech Teacher
Caps lock is ALT Search
Delete is ALT backspace
Dark Screen? LCD may have a loose connection
Screenshots
To take a screenshot of your Chromebook screen, press the Ctrl and Window Switcher keys at the same time:
To take a screenshot of a specific area, add the shift key to that combo:
Right click desktop-- Auto Hide shelf,shelf position(they will move this), set wallpaper( they will pick new ones)
Settings
Internet connection
Wifi network connection, network, (IP, name servers, proxies)
add connection(Join)
Appearance
Set wall paper(kids do go for their own), get themes, show home button, new tab page, always show bookmarks bar,
Device
Touch pad speed,Touchpad settings(tap to click-they have changed tis one-traditional scrolling australian scrolling-upside downUse your Chromebook touchpad - Chromebook Help), keyboard settings( change the work that these keys do, langueage- I have seen spanish) , display settings(if connect to projector, resolution, orientation- April Fool-TV align ment).
Search
which search engine?
Show google now cards in launcher
enable okay google to start voice search (our first graders love it!)
People
Don't reset sync if you can help it.
require password to wake- nah that takes one of the really nice features away-- close your lid open your machine
advanced sync-- nah don't mess
manage other users only the owner can
Date and Time- yes they did mess this up
Wrong time zone- set time zone automatically using your location
no 24 hour clock
loses the time - bad thing for windows
Privacy
Cookies
allow local data --yes
keep local data only until you quit your browser - no
block sites from setting data- no lose the settings when you leave
block third party cookies and site data - I think we are past this fear
Manage the exceptions-- leave it to IT
All cookies -- here is the list of all of them
Images
Show all --yes
Do not show any-- Really? they haven’t changed this one yet…
JavaScript Allow - yes
do not allow Java -- not yet Manage exception - leave to IT
Privacy
Clear Browsing data
history,download, cookies, cached images, passwords, autofill, hosted app data, content licenses, Adobe Flash player settings
This is one for IT to stop
They can clear their data and hope to cover their misbehavior
Use a web service to help resolve errors
Use a prediction service to help complete searches --- of course I like that - click the one I like
prefetch resources- not for 2Gig memory
Automatically report security incidents to google
Protect you and your device from dangerous sites -- safe search for edu
use a web service to help resolve spelling errors. Maybe they messed with this?
Automatically send usage statistics and crash reports- goes to your admin
Send “Do not track requests”
Enable Verified Access
Bluetooth- some of their mice
Passwords and forms
Enable autoFill--
manage autofill settings
Offer to save your web passwords-- yes for those first graders who can’t type random digits
Manage passwords-- yes you can go here get rid of the saved passwords for some
Web content
Font size-- yes they have
Customize fonts- they may have done this
Page Zoom-- be ready for this one
Languages
Languages and input settings- takes little work to do this one- add spanish?
Offer to translate pages that aren't in a language you read
Downloads
Location
Ask where to save each file before downloading
Disconnect google drive account
HTTPS/SSL
Manage certificates
Google Cloud Print-- by invitation only!
On start up-- of course we want to pick up where we left off!
Accessibility-
Power wash -- you can if it is a personal machine but please don't if the school manages it. It will fix everything most of the time.
Reset settings-- you can if it is a personal machine but please don't if the school manages it. It will fix everything most of the time.
About Chrome OS --your device is up to date
Launcher-- Get Help
Developer mode - OhOh
power wash or reset time
"Chrome OS verification is turned off" message - Chromebook Help
Turn on Single App Kiosk Mode - Chromebook Help
Or Kiosk Mode
Turn off Single App Kiosk Mode
Turn off Kiosk Mode by rebooting the Chromebook. While the device is starting up, press the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Sto interrupt the process and return to the login screen.
List Of Chrome URL’s
chrome://accessibility: Turn ON or OFF your Chrome Accessibility features.
chrome://appcache-internals: Contains information on appcached-site and space used.
chrome://apps: Shows all you Chrome Apps.
chrome://blob-internals: BLOB(Binary large objects) – Show you the analytics of blob’s.
chrome://bookmarks: Open bookmark manager.
chrome://cache: Use this to see all the cached items like website, images, data, etc.
chrome://chrome: Chrome’s about page.
chrome://chrome-urls: A list of all chrome URL’s, that you are seeing here.
chrome://components: A list of all Chrome components.
chrome://conflicts: A list of all the modules that are loaded and to be loaded in future.
chrome://crashes: Can see all the details of recent crashes.
chrome://credits: A big list of Chrome credits
.chrome://components
chrome://copresence
chrome://device-log
chrome://devices: A list of all the devices that are connected to your Chrome account.
chrome://dns: Shows you the prefetch DNS records if prefetching is enabled.
chrome://downloads: Show all the downloads.
chrome://extensions: Shows you all the extensions that are currently installed.
chrome://gcm-internals
chrome://flags: Google Chrome’s experimental features page.
chrome://flash: A detailed information of Chrome’s flash integration.
chrome://gpu: Details about your PC’s GPU and hardware acceleration.
chrome://help: Google Chrome’s help module [About Page].
chrome://histograms: All the technical stuff about Histograms.
chrome://history: Chrome’s browsing history.
chrome://indexeddb-internals: All the storage instances of Chrome’s DB.
chrome://inspect: Gives you the ability to inspect elements like extensions.
chrome://invalidations
chrome://local-state
chrome://memory-internals
chrome://media-internals: Displays media information while playing media.
chrome://memory: Details on Chrome’s and other browsers memory consumption.
chrome://nacl: Displays information about Chrome’s NaCl plugin(Native Client).
chrome://net-internals: Displays detailed network related information like SPDY connection and DNS look-ups.
chrome://newtab: Gives you a new tab.
chrome://omnibox: Displays Omnibar input results like search, shortcuts and history.
chrome://plugins: All the installed Chrome’s plugins.
chrome://policy: Displays all the policies that are currently active in your Chrome browser.
chrome://predictors: Shows you all the auto-complete and resource predictions which are purely based on past activities.
chrome://print: Chrome’s print preview tab.
chrome://profiler: Chrome's profile tracking data.
chrome://password-manager-internals
chrome://quota-internals: Displays you the quota information of your Chrome browser.
chrome://settings: Chrome settings page.
chrome://signin-internals: Shows you the details of Chrome’s account activity, like last google account sign-in, etc.
chrome://stats: Shows you the Chrome’s statistics if enabled.
chrome://sync-internals: If sync is enabled in your Chrome browser, then this page shows you all the details about it.
chrome://serviceworker-internals
chrome://suggestions
chrome://system
chrome://terms: Google Chrome usage terms and conditions.
chrome://tracing: Records your browsing history if enabled.
chrome://translate-internals: Shows you the translations preferences and detection logs.
chrome://thumbnails
chrome://user-actions: Displays all the recent user actions(used for debugging purposes).
chrome://version: Displays detailed information of your Chrome browser.
chrome://view-http-cache: Displays all the website that you have visited.
chrome://voicesearch
chrome://webrtc-internals
chrome://webrtc-logs
Of all the URLs above, the most used ones are: Chrome://settings, Chrome://flags, Chrome://plugins,Chrome://downloads, Chrome://extensions, Chrome://history.
Chrome URLs for Debugging
The URLs in this category are for debugging purposes. They can crash or hang the renderer.
chrome://crash: Crash simulation of current tab.
chrome://kill: Kills the current tab.
chrome://hang: Simulation of frozen tab.
chrome://shorthang: Simulates short hanging scenario.
chrome://gpucrash: GPU crash simulation.
chrome://gpuhang: GPU hang simulation.
chrome://restart/: Restarts your browser.
chrome://crashdump
chrome://gpuclean
chrome://ppapiflashcrash
chrome://ppapiflashhang
chrome://quit/
Keep in mind that the above URLs may be changed or deleted in coming versions of Google Chrome.
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