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"Chrome is a powerful web browser to use for navigating the net. It is also popular among the education community as is evident from the huge interaction we receive each time we write about it. Chrome has a wide range of interesting features that make it ideal for educational uses. One of these features is third party extensions.There are some really useful educational extensions you and your students can use on Chrome to perform a number of things from saving numerous tabs in a single page to annotating and editing screenshots. Check out this page for some of our recommendations for Chrome educational extensions. You can also check Chrome Help section for more resources and guides on everything related to Chrome."

A great guide to Chrome, including apps and extensions.

"Auto Text Expander for Google Chrome is a convenient Chrome extension that I've recently started using. The extension enables me to create keyboard shortcuts for words and phrases that I frequently use in emails."

Google Docs Quick Create is a Chrome extension that allows you to quickly create Google documents, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, and drawings with one click. Instead of going to your Drive, clicking on "new" and selecting a service you want to use ( which is quite a process), Google Doc Quick Create provides you with a simple and time-saving shortcut. Here is how it works:

Chrome extension that allows a split screen so kids can look at directions in Classroom while they work on assignments.

"Coggle is a good Chrome app for creating mind maps. It integrates seamlessly with Google Drive and allows you to organize and share your files with your Google contacts the way you like. Coggle provides a wide variety of features that make it easy for users to create beautiful mind maps and share them with others. Interesting among these features is the collaborative functionality which enable you to invite colleagues and work on the same diagram in the same time."

"Google Input Tools is a very good Chrome extension that allows you to type using any language you want.This is especially helpful for multilingual people who would like to navigate the web using languages not supported by their keyboards.With one simple click, Google Input Tools enables you to switch to typing in a different language and switch back just as easily. "

PDFs (portable document formats) are probably the most popular document format we use in our daily work as teachers and educators. As such, we deemed it important that we share with you this list of some interesting tools to help you do more with your PDF files. These Chrome apps will allow you to edit, annotate, convert, view, fill forms and share PDFs. Some of these add-ons (such as the first two in this list) are also integrated with Google Drive.

Use the Snagit Chrome app and extension to create a 20 second animation.

The popular Chrome app Read & Write for Google is now available as a free iPad app and as a free Android app.

"Here is a collection of some very good add-ons to use on Google Drive to edit  and share PDFs. Some of the things you can do with these tools include: merge several documents into a single PDF, split or extract pages into one PDF, convert PDFs to images, compress and reduce the size of your PDFs and many more. All of these add-ons are web based and do not require any software installation. You simply add the Chrome extension to your browser and start experimenting with it right away. Give them a try and see what works for you. Enjoy."

Here are four excellent Chrome apps specifically curated for Math teachers and students. These apps are ideal for writing, editing and viewing math formula whether they are simple or complex. One of these tools, TeX equation editor, is integrated with Google Drive so you can easily paste TeX equations right into your Google Docs.

Open 20 Google Docs at once with this extension.

Save to Google Drive, Quick Create, Office Editing, and Sync Drive with Dropbox