There’s a stunningly simple thing you can do with Google Chrome that can solve headaches and annoyances related to logging in to various google services, or not being able to see the printerpool printers.

If you’ve not already discovered, you are able to log into chrome itself with your google account. Once you’ve done this, everything that happens inside of chrome is done in the context of your user account. In short, this ensures that you get a consistent experience within chrome whether you’re using it at college, at home, on a chromebook, or on your phone or tablet.

All of our institutional plugins for chrome are automatically installed once you log in with your username / password; as well as the ability to print to college printers – to run that by you again, if you log into chrome on your phone, you can send work to print out from home, and simply walk up to a printer to release it the next morning.

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Google for Education Tuesday Tips!

Google G Suite for Education “Tuesday Tips” is a weekly spotlight on Google’s education tools. Unfortunately, we can’t take credit for this one. Google for Education #GoogleEdu share tips to help teachers with Google Classroom and Google Forms. These tips are released every Tuesday, and they come in the form of a published Google Slide deck (see embedded slides below).

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