Four Must Have Add-Ons or Extensions for your 2018-2019 School Year!

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Four Must Have Add-Ons or Extensions 

for your 2018-2019 School Year!

Welcome back everyone! I hope your Summer was spent with family and friends, enjoying the best things in life!

To kick off the new school year I would like to share four awesome add-ons or extensions that can be used over and over again this year in your classrooms to make your jobs easier and more efficient.

#1 SirLinksALot Extension

 If you are looking to share a Google document, presentation, drawing or sheet, this extension will quickly provide you with the link to share with your students. You have 4 options to choose from.
Force a copy - When students click this link they will be asked to make a copy
Preview - When students click this link they will see a preview to be able to view, but not copy what you share.
Template - When students click this link, they will see a preview and will be able to make a copy by clicking on "Use Template"
PDF - When students click this link, the doc, presentation, drawing or sheet will download as a PDF
Here is a quick how-to video:




#2 Photo Slideshow Add-On for Google Slides Presentations

 Do you have a lot of photos to insert into a Google Presentation?  This add-on allows you to bring a group of pictures into a Google Presentation and it will distribute each of your pictures onto individual slides. The pictures would need to be in a Google Drive folder or in a Google Photos Album. I recently used this to make a slide show of our district professional development time spent at our local Fox Valley Technical College sites.


#3 Audio Player Extension for Google Slides Presentations

Audio Player for Slides is a Chrome Extension designed to help you easily add or record audio to your Google Slide presentations.   This will allow music to play during a slideshow or it can be used to add voiceover audio to individual slides.

Once installed, simply click the extension icon and authenticate to Google Drive. Then open a new Slide presentation and right click a slide and click Manage Audio. You can add an MP3 file from your Drive, upload an MP3 file or record a voice over with the recorder.


Once you choose an MP3 file to play, you can choose to play the sound on one slide, repeat the sound on multiple slides or have the sound (music) play in the background throughout the entire presentation. You can also loop the sound to play over and over.
#4 Link Style Extension for Google Docs

 Link Style allows you to customize the appearance of hyperlinks in your documents. Simply select some text whose style matches the style you want your hyperlinks to have. Then click on add-ons, then click on Link Style, and then click on update the link style to match. This will apply the style to all of the hyperlinks in your document. 

 You can also save a default hyperlink style and restore it in any document at any time.


I hope these add-ons and extensions help you out throughout the year and that they are useful to you and your students.  Cheers to a fabulous school year!

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