No more clicking around to a million tabs! Save to Pocket Students are then served these questions and able to answer them right there. Pear Deck will level up your lectures by allowing you to add questions to individual slides in a presentation. The price is EXTREMELY reasonable $4 a month and allows you to caption your recorded videos which is huge for accessibility.

While Screen-Cast-O- Matic is not purely a Chrome Extension, is my favorite way to record my screen! They have a free and easy to use version as well as a paid premium version that I personally think is some of the best money I have spent for teaching in the last year. Students and your coworkers will all appreciate you upping your GIF game! Screen-Cast-O-Matic Who doesn’t love a good GIF? Giphy is a great way to inject some humor and character into otherwise bland text. My online students LOVE to see what cursor I will use next. You can choose a seasonal option or something you and your students love. Custom Cursor allows you to choose an object to change your cursor from the boring old arrow to something more fun and engaging. This means all those PDFs you have downloaded from your favorite authors no longer need to be printed out to be completed. Kami works with your PDF uploads in Google Drive to allow annotation and drawing. Kami is one of those Chrome Extensions that is so good there is no reason not to use it. If you do choose to go for the premium services, wait for a sale, as they have them ALL the time. I myself have only used the free version. Grammarly offers both free and paid services. For an individual who has never felt confident in their spelling this is a big one. Grammarly is another one of my must have extensions because it runs in the background constantly checking my grammar and spelling. I have everything from notes to myself, reading lists, and grocery trips planned in Keep. Google Keep is one of my absolute favorite Chrome Extensions because I have it on all my devices and it syncs seamlessly. It seems there is a Chrome Extension for everything, but how do you know when ones are worth it? Check out this list of pre-vetted Chrome Extensions for teachers.

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