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How to take a screenshot on a Chromebook

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You can take a screenshot or record a video of your Chromebook’s screen. After you capture your screen, you can view, edit, delete, and share the image or video.

Tip: Screenshots and recordings are automatically copied to your clipboard.

Take a screenshot

  1. If your Chromebook has it, press the Screenshot key .
    • If your Chromebook doesn’t have a Screenshot key , press Ctrl+ Shift + Show windows .
    • If your external keyboard doesn’t have a Show windows key , press Ctrl + Shift + F5.
  2. In the menu at the bottom, select Screenshot .
    1. Select an option:
      1. Take a full screen screenshot .
      2. Take a partial screenshot .
      3. Take a window screenshot .

Navigating with gestures on Chromebook

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  • Right Click: So to right-click all you need to do is use two fingers to tap on the trackpad at the same time. This acts like a right click and opens menus in the same way it would in Windows.
  • Open Link in new tab: To open a link in a new tab, you can use three fingers to tap on the trackpad at the same time

There are several different gestures that you can use to navigate around your Chromebook or use it in different ways.

  • Swipe up with two fingers on the trackpad and you’ll scroll up a page. Scroll down by swiping down instead.
  • Swipe two fingers to the left and you’ll go back to the previous page
  • Swipe two fingers to the right and you’ll go forwards instead
  • Swipe up with three fingers to see all your open apps and windows
  • Swipe left or right with three fingers to switch between Chrome tabs
  • Swipe left or right with four fingers to switch between virtual desktops

How to access Chromebook settings

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Your Chromebook still has a settings menu that allows you to tweak all sorts of things including looking for updates, changing user account settings, adjusting accessibility settings and more

To access it go to the bottom right-hand corner of your display, then click on the status area, and select the cog icon to bring up the settings page.

You can also access the settings with shortcuts as well. Rather than clicking around just press ALT+SHIFT+S.

Canvas Tip #3: Clean the Dashboard.

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I am enrolled in and have published a lot of Canvas Courses. I’m in 14 of them and they’re still active, but I need not see them all the time. To clean up my dashboard, I customized the course cards that are displayed upon login. From the dashboard menu on the left, I click on “courses” then “all courses.”

Try it. You’ll see a small star icon next to your courses. Get rid of the star next to courses you don’t want on your dashboard. Suddenly, you have a much cleaner front-page interface to work with. Here’s how. Click “Start” below.

4 STEPS

1. The first step is to click courses

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2. Click All Courses

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3. Scroll down and click highlight

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4. That’s it. Now only these cards will appear on my dashboard. Note: If all courses are unstarred- ALL of them will appear on the dashboard.
BTW, if you like this tutorial tool, it is called IORAD and it is a Chrome Extension.

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Here’s an interactive tutorial

** Best experienced in Full Screen (click the icon in the top right corner before you begin) **

https://www.iorad.com/player/1937386/How-to-clean-up-the-Canvas-Dashboard-

 

Don’t Forget Google. #1

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1st in a series of reminders about Google’s education tools.

For much of the past two years, many of our posts have been about Canvas. There are a whole lot of obvious reasons for that. But don’t forget, that we are still a Google School. One of Google’s richest tools is its Google Arts and Culture.

Click the image to go to Google Arts and Culture. There is so much there.

 

For instance, check out its Black History Month page.  Among its wide array of resources, there’s an interesting interview with Questlove talking about his Summer of Soul movie.