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Chromebook Basics: A Comprehensive Guide for Parkland Students

Discover the essential features of Chromebooks that enhance the learning experience for Parkland students. Learn about the speed, cost, and security of these web-based devices that require no downloads or installations. Understand how to access your Chromebook with a Google account and familiarize yourself with shortcut keys for efficient navigation. From taking screenshots to utilizing the Citrix Receiver for accessing files, this guide covers everything you need to know to make the most of your Chromebook in a K-12 academic setting.

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Chromebook Basics: A Comprehensive Guide for Parkland Students

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  1. Chromebook Basics:

  2. Why Chromebooks: • Speed • Cost • Security • Web-based • no downloads or • installs • Wireless • Peripherals

  3. Chromebooks, Google Accounts and Students: • You MUST have a Google Account to use • a Chromebook . • Parkland students K – 12 have Google accounts • Only students 7 – 12 have Google gmail accounts • Student Google account usernames are: • first letter of first name + first 5 letters of last • name + last 3 letters of student id • @student.parklandsd.net • i.e. bbrein123@student.parklandsd.net • Password is: student id #

  4. The Chromebook Shortcut Keys:

  5. Chromebook Keyboard Tips: To simulate a RIGHT mouse click on the Chromebook: tap the touchpad with two fingers simultaneously 2. To scroll up and down a web page: move two fingers simultaneously up or down the touchpad 3. To simulate the back or forward arrows on Google to look at previously viewed webpages: use two fingers to “swipe” along the top or bottom of the touchpad 4. To take a screenshot of an entire page: Use CTRL+

  6. Chromebook Keyboard Tips: • To take a screen shot of a portion of a page: • Use CTRL+ Shift+ • (This turns your cursor into a crosshair. Hold one finger • down on the touchpad while drawing a rectangle around the • desired portion of the page with another finger, then • release.) • To enlarge type on a page: • CTRL + • To reduce type size on a page: • CTRL – • To find text on a page: • CTRL + F

  7. Chrome OS and Citrix Receiver: • Use the Chrome OS: • To surf the web • To copy and paste text and images to Google Docs • Use the Citrix Receiver Apps: • To access, open and save files on the home directory • Log in to the Citrix Receiver: • Within the Parkland Campus: • apps.parklandsd.org • Outside the Parkland Campus: • portal.parklandsd.org • Open applications within the Citrix Receiver in order to copy and paste text and/or images from web pages to MS Office • applications, or from one MS Office document to another

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