Apps, Extensions, and Add-ons for Students

As the school year gets underway, students can sometimes use some focus when it comes to wading through the Chrome Web Store. Here is a list of Chrome Apps, Extensions, and Google Drive Add-ons aimed at making your students more productive and active in their learning.

Remember that if you have the choice to select an app that is “For Education,” “For Schools,”  or “Edu” pick that one!  

Apps:

Highlighted Apps can be connected to your Google Drive and used from there instead of your App Menu.

Avatar Maker - Create a cool graphical likeness of yourself with a click of a button

Desmos Graphing Calculator - Online graphing calculator.  Create an account and connect to Drive

Fraction Wall - Explore equivalence between fractions, decimals and percentages.

Geogebra - Graphing calculator and much more.

Lucid Chart for Education - Use it for page layout, flow charts, concept maps and more! Tons of graphics built in.

Lucid Press - produce stunning print and digital newsletters, flyers, brochures, photo books and more.

MindMeister - Create concept maps and flowcharts

PicMonkey - Edit images and create collages

Pixlr Editor - Photoshop-like tool.  Manipulate images, create new images, add effects.

Pixlr Express -  crop, resize, and fine-tune any picture

PowToon - Create presentations and animated videos

RealTime Board - Create real time, collaborative graphic organizers.  

Quizlet - Use, create, and share online flashcards for studying.

Save to Drive - Save web content or screen capture directly to Google Drive.

Twisted Wave - Edit audio files and add effects

Typing Club - Learn touch typing and improve your typing speed.

VideoNot.es - Take notes right next to a YouTube video

Voice Note - Opens a notepad that you can record speech to text.

WeVideo - Edit video online

Extensions

Announcify - Have a website read to you

Awesome Screenshot - Capture and annotate screenshots in Chrome

Extensions Manager - Easily turn on and off your extensions, apps, and themes

Eye Dropper - Easily match colors from any web page

Readability - Zap out clutter and junk for easy readability

Save to Drive - Save web content or screen capture directly to Google Drive.

Screen capture, screenshot share/save - Screenshot and annotate webpage, automatically saves the link for you

Select and Speak - Have portions of a web page read to you

SimpleUndoClose - Open the tab you just closed accidently

SpeakIt! - Convert text to speech

TechSmith Snagit - Take a screenshot or screen capture

TLDR - Too Long Didn’t Read will summarize web content in four different forms.

Webpage Screenshot - Screenshot, annotate, or edit a webpage

Word Cloud Website Preview - Makes a word cloud with text from a website with one click

Google Drive Add-ons

Docs

Charts - Build a chart in your Spreadsheet and easily insert it into your Google Doc

Easy Bib Bibliography Creator - Automatically sources by entering in the titles or URLs. Format citations in MLA, APA, and Chicago style.

g(Math) - Create graphs (including plotting points) and write complex math directly in your Google Doc!

Highlighting Tools - Select, Highlight, and Group Content Together for Review and Learning.

Mindmeister - Turn any bullet-point list into a visually appealing mind map and insert it into your Google Document.

Openclipart - Choose from more than 50,000 clipart images

Thesaurus - Explore synonyms, antonyms and more.

Vextab Music Notation - Write music in Google Docs!

Sheets

g(Math) for Sheets - Create graphs (including plotting points) and write complex math directly in your Google Sheet.

More Fonts - Gives you access to more fonts for your Spreadsheets

Styles - Quickly add style to your spreadsheet by highlighting cells and choosing a style from the style viewer.

Here is the original Google Doc to more easily share with others!

Is your favorite missing from the list? This list was created with Middle School students in mind so it might not be there. Please share it and I'll add it to the list.