MCPS google apps for education orientation
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Google Apps for Education overview for chromebooks
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MCPS google apps for education orientation
- 1. Google Apps for Education For Montgomery County Public Schools Click Next to Begin
- 2. Google Apps for Education For Montgomery County Public Schools
- 3. Welcome to your Chromebook! Acer Hewlett Packard Samsung Google Lenovo
- 4. Turn on your Chromebook Open the lid Press the power button 1 2
- 5. Login to the ChromeBook How to share a file
- 6. Your Desktop
- 7. Chromebook Options Sound Battery Life Time Wifi Shut Down
- 8. Getting to Work! App Launcher Drive Chrome
- 9. App Launcher Contains Google Apps for Education Apps Contains all apps installed from the Chrome store Contains links to websites
- 10. Drive Google’s version of myDocuments All files are stored in the cloud
- 11. Chrome Browser Google’s Internet Browser
- 12. Track Pad
- 13. Do you want learn some trackpad skills?
- 15. Opening a Link
- 16. Scroll up and down
- 17. Highlight text
- 18. Right Click
- 19. Adjust Volume
- 20. Hidden Keys Hidden Keyboard Map Take a screen shot Delete Copy Text to Clipboard Zoom in on a page Print current page
- 21. Are you ready to try out your keyboard skills? YES NO
- 22. Can you find and open the article 26 tips for teaching with Google Apps on the internet? Open up the Chrome browser and type the title of the article in the Omnibox. Need a hint?
- 23. Double click on a challenging word in the article. The dictionary feature should pop up and provide a definition of the word selected! When you read the article, can you find definitions of challenging words? Need a hint?
- 24. Click on the Red sofa-chair in the upper right hand side of the screen. This will remove all ads and distractions on web pages. Can you remove all the distraction, like ads, from the webpage? Need a hint?
- 25. Highlight a text selection from the article, right click (use your feather fingers!) on the text…from the command menu select either “Read the selected text OR speak text”– you may need to adjust your volume!! Can you highlight your favorite tip from the article?
- 26. Thank You Visit our Support Site Contact your Instructional specialist Google it! Try another course!
- 27. Subject Matter Experts: Lynn Wiegand Lisa Fuller Department of Instructional Technology Course Office of the Chief Technology Officer Credits Instructional Design Carrie D’Amour Booth Department of Instructional Technology Office of the Chief Technology Officer Voice Acting Wilma Richardson Help Desk Office of the Chief Technology Officer
Editor's Notes
- Welcome to the MCPS Google Apps for Education Orientation! – We’re glad you’ve decided to learn the basics! This quick course will acclimate you to the Chromebook’s features and capabilities so that you can get started using this powerful teaching tool!
- There are lots of different types of chromebooks, made by different companies. Despite the different makers most models have a lot in common. Starting with how you turn them on!
- Let’s start with turning it on! There are two ways to turn on a Chromebook: First, open the lid and the power should come on automatically. If for some reason the power does not turn on you can use the power button, located in the upper right hand corner of the keyboard.
- To log into your Chromebook, type your .net email address in the email box then enter your password into the password box. Either click “sign-in” or press enter on the keyboard.
- Your Chromebook desktop is for the most part, empty. This is because there are no programs or applications installed on the device itself. Regular laptops you are probably familiar with have hard drives and programs get installed on them. A Chromebook, on the other hand, does not have a hard drive. It is simply a device with access to the internet. All the programs are hosted in the cloud. This design makes them Wi-Fi dependent, but in a tradeoff makes them light, fast to load and extremely fast!
- Options on your computer include items like Sound, time and battery life! To find these items and icons, look at the bottom right corner desktop icons. Click on the bar at the bottom right of the desktop to see additional information. Most important on additional information is Power Off! You must Shut down to power down your chromebook– shutting the lid does not shut down the device and the battery ends up drained!
- Now it is time to start putting your chromebook to work! Look in the lower left hand corner. You’ll find the links to the app launcher, {pause a little ] Drive, and {pause} Chrome.
- The app picker looks like these nine squares. And when clicked on, looks like this. While your regular laptop has programs installed on it, all the programs on a chromebook are stored in the cloud and run via the wifi. You can install lots of these programs, called apps or applications to run on your chromebook. They appear in this pop out menu once installed and you open them but clicking on them!
- This is the drive logo. It is found here on your desktop. Google drive is basically your Google “my documents” and where you will store everything you do on your Chromebook. And where you can see other files made by your peers and students that are shared with you.
- And this colorful circle icon is a link to the Chrome Browser. This opens Google Chrome, the browser that works best with Google Apps for Education. A key feature of the browser is the Omnibox. This box serves double duty as the URL address area and a search field.
- The Chromebook has a trackpad. The trackpad serves as the mouse for your Chromebook. Everything you can do with a mouse you can accomplish with the trackpad—and more.
- If this is tricky for you, we recommend practice your track pad skills. Want some Tricks? Yes - No
- To move the cursor, simply move your finger across the touchpad to direct the cursor to a location on your screen. Apply light pressure to the touchpad– you do not want to “click” the touchpad. Practice moving the cursor around your screen– can you make it go exactly where you want it to go?
- To open a link- place the cursor over the desired link and press down on the lower part of the trackpad OR quickly tap the trackpad.
- To scroll up and down or side to side on a page, place two fingers on the track pad and move them up and down or left and right.
- To highlight text, click on the first letter of the text to highlight. Using a second finger, drag the cursor to the end of the text. You may also decide that using two hands works well!
- To right-click, which will open the command menu, lightly touch the touchpad once with two fingers that are slightly separated (so that touchpad does not read it as one finger). Think “feather-fingers”!! Practice this until you can successfully open the command menu– look at the command menu, what interesting options do you see? We will take a closer look at some of these in the next few slides!
- To adjust the volume on a chromebook, use the volume control buttons located at the upper right portion of the keyboard. You can mute, or make the volume louder or softer.
- The keypad on a chromebook is not fully visible. Take a look, can you tell what is missing? In order to “find” some regularly used keys, such as caps lock, screen shot or delete, you will need to use the hidden chromebook keyboard map-search “hidden keyboard map for chromebooks” on google to see different ones. You may or may not use any of these additional keys, but we wanted to make sure you were aware of this secret keyboard option! Play around with the hidden keys and try to do some of these tricks.
- Want to try out some new skills? Yes No
- Can you find and open the article 26 tips for teaching with Google Apps on the internet?
- When you read the article, can you find definitions of challenging words?
- Can you remove all the distractions, like ads, from the webpage?
- Can you highlight your favorite tip from the article?
- Thank you for joining us! We hope you have learned some valuable skills and are now more comfortable using your chromebook. If you have additional questions, you can always email the Instructional Specialists assigned to your school for GAFE/chromebook support!