Chrome Extensions for the Classroom

With the advent of Chromebooks and Google Apps for Education, students and teachers have access to a variety of great time saving extensions. All of our students have a Google Apps logon. If you spend some time having them set up their toolbar at the beginning of the semester, each time the student logs on using his or her Google logon, the tools will appear for them. Below is a curated list of the most highly rated apps:

Grammarly: Grammarly helps eliminate the most common grammatical errors. Grammarly provides feedback for the students by detecting errors and suggesting corrections, along with assistance to cite quotations, which helps students to avoid plagiarism.

Awesome Screenshot: Awesome screenshot allows you to screen capture a webpage, blur parts, annotate, and share with one click.

Books that Grow allows teachers to quickly and easily assign reading that adapts to each user's reading level. Teachers can monitor progress and set the instructional reading levels. Readers can also manipulate the content to choose texts of interest at their level.

Cite This For Me allows students to one click cite any webpage they are using. The citation can then be pasted into a works cited.

Want to create an interactive timeline? Tiki-Toki permits you to quickly and easily create and share interactive timeline projects.

No time to read? tl;dr is an extension that will summarize any article or webpage.