Monday 9 June 2014

A Few Keyboard Shortcuts for Chromebooks

This post was originally written for my school's weekly staff newsletter, Bear Essentials, March 28.

Chromebook shortcuts

Many of us have been using the chromebooks with our classes a lot.  Here is a short list of keyboard shortcuts to hopefully make life easier for you and your students.  Some of them are the same as any computer, but not everyone is familiar with keyboard shortcuts at all.  I’ll start with the more common ones:

Cut = ctrl + x
Copy = ctrl + c
Paste = ctrl + v

Our chromebooks don’t have a caps lock.                            
If you want capitals locked on =  alt + the search button  
caps lock.png

To take a screen shot (of the whole screen) = ctrl + the 3 overlapped boxes in middle of top row
screen shot.png
If you just want part of the screen, = ctrl + shift + same button as above
partial screen shot.png
Here’s the last one for today.  And maybe it’s all you really need?

shortcut overlay.png

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