Google has opted to introduce some exciting enchantments to its Chrome and Google Classroom as the tech giant opts to make learning more interactive.
The news was unveiled at this year’s BETT conference where the company mentioned how its products were getting some features to turn the entire user experience for learning more worthwhile.
Among those, the most noteworthy of them all included the Reader mode on Chrome and ChromeOS. This would assist those having reading challenges so they could better understand developments on the web.
Other than that, the Android maker hopes to set out more improvements to Google Classroom and its Workspace. These will be equipped with modern-day AI features to really upgrade students’ performance.
For starters, ChromeOS will get a new reading mode. It will allow students and those with language disabilities such as dyslexia really find their way forward. And using it, you can pull out reader views on the side panels and even get rid of extras that disrupt the reader’s view such as certain graphic content and videos.
At the same time, we’re seeing this feature allow for some settings that get customized including typefaces and various font sizes, not to mention spacing and color of the backgrounds too. This would soon be published in ChromeOS 114 and Chrome Version 114 which are both coming soon.
Similarly, we’re going to see a few changes introduced to Screencast that both students and teachers use to record some lessons on their Chromebook screens.
This makes the whole experience so much more personalized and expands sessions for both recording and transcription to various other languages including Spanish, Italian, and Swedish. Furthermore, users can benefit from a new web player that helps with watching screencasts on non-Chrome devices.
You’ll even see the Android maker include more demo tools so there is more animation included for mouse clicks, screen taps, and presses across keyboards.
For ChromeOS users, there will be more privacy controls introduced to the cast moderator that allows students to share screens on displays. After it arrives this year, users can pause screens getting cast and allow teachers to switch from one tab to the next without causing the session to end.
Similarly, other new customized tools for ChromeOS admin members will include policy management that is group based. It would configure apps and allow for extensions on the Google Console.
But it’s not only software that appears to be getting all the great updates. Hardware is also going to be affected as Google hopes to release around 13 different Chromebooks for the education sector. You can find these listed across device selectors and they’ll entail products including Dell Latitude and Acer’s Chromebook Vero variants.
Among the features that we’re anticipating the most in regard to Chromebooks include better battery life and a stylus.
For the Google Classroom, there will be changes to Practice sets as they’ll have AI incorporated. This way, teachers can make assignments more interactive. Similarly, videos on YouTube will include interactive queries that get assigned to students.
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The news was unveiled at this year’s BETT conference where the company mentioned how its products were getting some features to turn the entire user experience for learning more worthwhile.
Among those, the most noteworthy of them all included the Reader mode on Chrome and ChromeOS. This would assist those having reading challenges so they could better understand developments on the web.
Other than that, the Android maker hopes to set out more improvements to Google Classroom and its Workspace. These will be equipped with modern-day AI features to really upgrade students’ performance.
For starters, ChromeOS will get a new reading mode. It will allow students and those with language disabilities such as dyslexia really find their way forward. And using it, you can pull out reader views on the side panels and even get rid of extras that disrupt the reader’s view such as certain graphic content and videos.
At the same time, we’re seeing this feature allow for some settings that get customized including typefaces and various font sizes, not to mention spacing and color of the backgrounds too. This would soon be published in ChromeOS 114 and Chrome Version 114 which are both coming soon.
Similarly, we’re going to see a few changes introduced to Screencast that both students and teachers use to record some lessons on their Chromebook screens.
This makes the whole experience so much more personalized and expands sessions for both recording and transcription to various other languages including Spanish, Italian, and Swedish. Furthermore, users can benefit from a new web player that helps with watching screencasts on non-Chrome devices.
You’ll even see the Android maker include more demo tools so there is more animation included for mouse clicks, screen taps, and presses across keyboards.
For ChromeOS users, there will be more privacy controls introduced to the cast moderator that allows students to share screens on displays. After it arrives this year, users can pause screens getting cast and allow teachers to switch from one tab to the next without causing the session to end.
Similarly, other new customized tools for ChromeOS admin members will include policy management that is group based. It would configure apps and allow for extensions on the Google Console.
But it’s not only software that appears to be getting all the great updates. Hardware is also going to be affected as Google hopes to release around 13 different Chromebooks for the education sector. You can find these listed across device selectors and they’ll entail products including Dell Latitude and Acer’s Chromebook Vero variants.
Among the features that we’re anticipating the most in regard to Chromebooks include better battery life and a stylus.
For the Google Classroom, there will be changes to Practice sets as they’ll have AI incorporated. This way, teachers can make assignments more interactive. Similarly, videos on YouTube will include interactive queries that get assigned to students.
Read next: Google Is Enhancing Its Search Features So Users Can Better Judge Online Data And Sources
