Chromebook Tips Lesson

How well do you know your Chromebook?

Multiple Choice

Chromebooks can read QR Codes

• True

• False

Using the built-in Camera app, click "Scan" and choose QR Code.

You can also scan documents and easily make them PDFs using the "Scan" feature!

The camera app also lets you take photos and videos, even create gifs!

Multiple Choice

A Chromebook keyboard misses what key commonly found on most keyboards?

• Enter

• Caps Lock

• Esc

• Backspace

You can turn on Caps Lock on a Chromebook by clicking Alt + Search (🔍)

You will see an icon in the System Tray, indicating that Caps Lock is on.

You can shut off Caps Lock by clicking Alt + Search (🔍) again OR simply clicking the Shift key once.

Multiple Choice

You can easily switch between Chrome browser tabs by...

• ctrl + t

• ctrl + n

• Use three fingers to swipe sideways on the mouse pad.

• ctrl + alt + ?

There are several shortcuts that use the touchpad and a combination of fingers.

You can also use ctrl + tab 😊

FYI...

• ctrl + t = New Chrome Tab

• ctrl + n = New Chrome Window

• ctrl + alt + ? = All Keyboard Shortcuts

Multiple Choice

What does this key combination do?

• Close a window

• Copy a document

• Open another window

• Take a screenshot

The ctrl + shift keys takes a screenshot of the ENTIRE window.

The ctrl + shift + "Show Windows" keys allows you to select part of your screen to screenshot.

The "Show Windows" key quickly shows all active windows or apps (you can also use three fingers to swipe up/down on touchpad).

Multiple Choice

The search bar in Chrome (aka, “Ominibox”) has the built-in ability to do each of the following EXCEPT:

• Start a timer

• Use a metronome

• Color a book

• Roll a die

The Omnibox (Address Bar) in Chrome has the ability to do several cool things like:

• "directions from san antonio to dallas"

• "convert 254mm to inches"

• "flip a coin"

• "5 minute timer"

• "5x + 2(x + 7) = 14x – 7"

• "do a barrel roll"

Multiple Choice

Chromebooks have an emoji keyboard like Windows does.

• True

• False

Yes, Chromebooks have a built-in emoji keyboard like Windows!

Simply click the Shift + Search + Spacebar.

You can also right-click and choose "Emoji"

Multiple Choice

You accidentally closed an important tab in Google Chrome. You can quickly get this tab back by:

• ctrl + shift + t

• ctrl + tab

• ctrl + +shift + r

• Call Chad 🙂

Closed an important tab by accident? You can easily recover by clicking ctrl + shift + t.

You can do this multiple times for multiple tabs closed like ctrl + z.

You can recover a closed window by using the same method.

NOTE: this works on Chrome on laptops, not just on Chromebooks.

Multiple Choice

This area located along the bottom of your Chromebook Screen is called the...

• The Chrome App Organizer

• The Chrome Omnibox

• The Chrome Shelf

• The Chrome Drawer

You can easily dock apps, folders, files, etc. on the shelf by right-clicking and choosing "Pin to shelf."

Unpin items from the shelf by right-clicking and choosing "Unpin."

You can drag and drop to organize.

The Windows equivalent of this is the "taskbar" and it works the same.

Multiple Choice

How do you right-click on a Chromebook?

• Tap the bottom-right corner of the touchpad.

• Tap the top-right corner of the touchpad.

• Tap the touchpad with two fingers.

• Tap the touchpad with three fingers.

Right-click by tapping the touchpad with two fingers simultaneously...

Also, alt + click works.

That is all.

Multiple Choice

Chromebooks have a built-in screen reader called...

• ChromeBit

• ChromeVox

• ChromeTalk

• ChromeSpeak

ChromeVox, along with other built-in accessibility features like color inversion, magnifier, etc. can be accessed by click the system tray (clock) and choosing "Accessibility."