Month: December 2020

The Bookmark Bar on Google Chrome is one of my favorite and most used piece of technology. It seems pretty simple, but there are so many features that I didn’t know about until recently.

Bookmark Manager

To open your bookmark manager on Google Chrome, click on the three vertical dots in the very top right corner of the window. Find “bookmarks” and hover over it to open the menu. Click on “Bookmark Manager”.

Let’s organize with folders. Click the three vertical dots on the blue header and click “add folder”. You can organize your bookmarks into the different classes you have, or by another system.

Click the star in the address bar to bookmark a page. I like to delete the text so that only the icons appear in the bookmark bar. It makes everything fit easier and look nicer.

Once you have all the pages bookmarked, you can right-click on the folder and open ALL THE PAGES AT ONCE!!!

You can see here that I have organized my bookmark bar by rainbow color. I have a few folders where I keep pages I want to open all at once, but for the most part this works for me.

Think about the pages you use often. Keep going back to your bookmarks a few times a year and purge the pages you don’t use often.

Happy Organizing!

I debated whether to save this post for later or make it a priority. Everyone uses (or should use) ctrl + C and ctrl + v for copy and paste. How much time are you really saving by using those keyboard shortcuts instead of your mouse? It turns out, it’s a lot of freaking time!

There are so many more wonderful keyboard shortcuts that will make your life easier and save you time when you are planning, teaching, and grading all online.

Note: I am going to be talking mostly about Windows and Chromebook in this post. If you are working on a mac, you may need to look up Apple-specific shortcuts.

Let’s Start at the Very Beginning

A very good place to start.

Ctrl + a

The first thing you want to do when creating your GoogleSlides is to make a template.

From here, you can do whatever you want and students won’t be able to move it around, you will be able to edit the same slides every day, and it will generally make your life easier.

Get rid of the text boxes on the first layout slide.

LEAVE THE MASTER ALONE.

Then, delete all the other slides. You don’t need them. Don’t be a horder. DELETE THEM.