Best Chrome Extensions for Teachers

 Chrome extensions have the power to revolutionize the teacher's life, dramatically enhancing productivity, improving classroom teaching, and simplifying classroom management. Below is a classification of some of the most helpful Chrome extensions for teachers, organized in the order of their main function:

I. For Lesson Planning & Content Development

Google Keep: A simple note-taking app where teachers can jot down ideas, links, photos, and reminders at a moment's notice. It syncs across devices and is perfect for organizing lesson materials.

Pocket: Excellent resource for saving articles, videos, and other learning material you find on the web to read later, even without an internet connection. You can label and categorize your saved content.

Smallpdf: This do-it-all PDF tool enables teachers to compress, convert, merge, or edit PDFs in the browser. Convenient for creating worksheets, combining student projects, or handling forms.

EquateIO: All science and math educators must have EquatIO, through which you can simply enter digital math equations and formulas. You can write, type, or even speak equations, and it works seamlessly with Google Workspace.

Edpuzzle: A must if you're a video teacher. Edpuzzle allows you to prepare any video for a successful lesson by including questions, comments, and voiceovers.

Loom: Easy screen recording tool where teachers can record screen and camera in one click. Best for recording video lessons, giving feedback, or demonstrating software. Uploads videos to cloud and shareable in seconds.

Screencastify: A popular screen recorder program, similar to Loom, where you can record, edit, and share videos immediately. Recordings are automatically saved to Google Drive.

InsertLearning: This plug-in makes any webpage an interactive lesson. Questions, discussions, sticky notes, and even videos can be added to the page by teachers.

Wakelet: Strong content curation platform where you can save articles, social media posts, video, or text clips to curated collections. Great for building resource libraries for students or personal planning.

II. For Classroom Management & Interaction

Google Classroom: While a platform itself, its compatibility with Chrome makes it easy for instructors to create and structure assignments, lessons, and lecture notes and communicate with students.

Mote - Voice & Audio for Learning: Allows teachers to add voice comments on Classroom, Slides, and Google Docs. It is efficient and more personal and accessible to multiple learners. It also has transcription and translation capabilities.

Kami: A learning environment that enables students and increases the effectiveness of how teachers teach, give feedback, and test. It enables you to view, annotate, share, and collaborate on documents in real-time.

Pear Deck: Increases student engagement and class participation through interactive presentations. Teachers can incorporate Pear Deck into their teaching to get instant feedback and trigger student engagement.

Dualless: Enables you to divide your screen with a single click, and it is helpful in managing multiple applications or resources simultaneously while teaching online.

Custom Cursor: Fun plug-in that allows you to customize your cursor, which can be a useful way of keeping students engaged and on track while teaching online.

III. For Productivity & Organization:

Grammarly: A general-purpose writing software with real-time grammar, punctuation, spelling, and style suggestions. The software helps teachers to ensure error-free, concise, and accurate written communication.

Text Blaze: A text expander in which you can assign shortcuts to repeated phrases, sentences, or paragraphs. Ideal for writing comments on grades, responding to emails, or goals for lessons, reducing typing time hugely.

Extensity: A basic but effective extension that enables you to easily turn on and off other Chrome extensions, which can assist in keeping the browser running smoothly and minimizing clutter.

Todoist: A to-do list app that also features a Chrome extension that helps teachers stay on top of things and keep track of their assignments, deadlines, and lesson plans.

Scribe: Any educator who must write out step-by-step instructions for kids or adults will love Scribe, a huge time-saver. Its free Chrome app writes out processes for you.