SelmaTeache7 Mr. Berry here. Today I want to show you some of the odd things I've noticed
about using a Chromebook I'm a teacher at the adult school and i show my students how to
use the Chromebook and actually how to do things such as uninstall apps install apps how to find
their files with the files app how to upgrade the SSD storage by adding a SD card or other methods
and I'm going to show you some of that now and this short video here so let's get started with
the lesson okay we're going to be going over some of the things that really frustrates people about
using their Chromebook let's say that they want to uninstall an app well right away on
the desktop you don't see any apps it's all down here in the shelf if you click on the launcher
you see a few apps here now if you right click on one of these let's say that you want to take
one of these off like the doom 2. you right click it and nothing happens now the amazing
thing is when the apps are actually on the shelf you can actually right click them and uninstall
them from there so that is a nice feature to have you can also unpin them from the shelf
so let's go back to the app launcher and show you well if you have an app that you want to
uninstall but you don't see it here on the shelf and you don't see it anywhere there
click on this little carrot or the up arrow and this reveals more apps now there are some
things that you cannot uninstall within the chrome operating system and let's just go in
and say that you have one of these extra apps here like cut the rope that should be able to
uninstall simply by right clicking it and saying uninstall so there you go it's really is that easy
and so I'll try another one here here's tick tock just right click it and you have
uninstall okay so that's how you uninstall apps and that again that frustrates people because
they'll go in they click on here and they say well i want to uninstall this doom too they right click
it and nothing happens you always have to click on the up arrow key find your app in this list
then right click it and then simply do a normal click on uninstall now for the newbies or the
beginners they say well how do you right click on a Chromebook it's not intuitive but what you do is
you put your fingers and you form a piece symbol so you put two fingers out at the same time and
you tap right on your touchpad and when you do it will form that right click so there we go you put
two fingers down simultaneously creating a piece symbol and you can create a right click that way
if you have a regular mouse you can plug into any USB mouse into your Chromebook and you can right
click and get to those options as well okay i don't feel like I'm going to be uninstalling
Microsoft word today so let's go in and let's look at some of the other oddities that we have here
another thing here here's the files app now the files app is right here on my shelf but let's
just say that you're on your Chromebook and you say well Mr. Berry I don't have it on my shelf
you can always find it by simply going into your app launcher and then if you don't see
it here pinned to the shelf you can actually go to the arrows and then find your files app
down in this list now let's say that you have you know maybe you have hundreds of different apps
you can actually click right here and just type in the name of the app now I'm seeing it all over
the place but let's just say i didn't see it so I'd type in files and it'll come up with the name
files double click it and there it comes up and in one way or two you have your files app opened
now let's go ahead and show you how to work with this let's say that you're downloading
files from the internet where do those files go well by default I would expect them to go into
this folder right here called the downloads folder many people will go in also and try
well they say well maybe it's in my videos and so they're click here and see if it comes up there
or perhaps they'll click on images now the thing about these folders is that they are read only
meaning if I right click them I'm unable to delete them I can't rename them I can't do
anything with those files and that can be very very frustrating if you find a file and you say
well I want to delete that file you right click it you can't delete you can't rename you can't
do anything with the file you can just simply copy it so these up here you're not able to
change but let's say we go down here to downloads now once I'm in downloads check this out
i click on downloads i right click on one and now I have the delete option so you can delete files
by doing that if you go into and let's say that you watch one of my other videos he said okay
let's upgrade the solid state storage here or the storage on my Chromebook so you put in a little
SD card in like i did here well you can actually have it so that the files will automatically be
downloaded here in your settings and let's click on there and there's a lot of my files and folders
up here so let's go in and let's right click one of these is right click the android here
and you notice on the android folder i am able to rename it I'm able to delete it get other
information on it so I'm able to do basically anything I want with it and on these up here
i am not able to so if you're brand new to the chrome environment you'll be clicking on images
and say well I want to delete this image and of course it doesn't give you that option why
because you have to find that image down here in either your downloads or in your SD card
next I want to talk about installing apps now there's two different stores that you
can actually use one is this android play store we'll talk about that first since i see it there
so you click it and you can type in the name of the app that you want to find and let's say i
want to find doom and there's many apps with the name doom i can install them by clicking on them
and then clicking on the price now some of these are free actually the majority of these are free
and let's see let's go into clash of clans so here we have clash of clans and now I've
already installed it so you just click on open and then open up that app let's find another app here
such as world of tanks to install it you simply click on install and then it will download and
be installing this app onto your Chromebook and there we see it's actually installing now now
once the app has downloaded and installed onto your Chromebook you can click on the open to open
the app but of course you don't want to go to the play store and open the app every time in that way
just go to your app launcher and click on the little up arrow and you should be able to find
your new app in this list now i see it right now on my shelf but let's just see if i can find it
down here let's click on tanks and there it is i could click on world of tanks and it'll open
up that app for me and that was the play store so let's go into the other store which is called
the google web store and I'm going to click on that now the web store has a slightly different
appearance than you would see in if you're using a windows computer for example your nurse right
away it has apps games and so there's actually a lot more found if you're using your Chromebook
let's go in and we'll do a search let's look for office okay now it comes up you'll notice it has
extensions now extensions are used in your browser so you see you have one here by Microsoft here but
I'm not going to use that one I'm going to go down here do you have themes but let's see aha
i have apps so you have to go all the way down the list before the apps category comes
up and that can be frustrating for a lot of people because they're expecting it to be
just appearing right here at the top what they're looking for and you know they have to scroll down
and there's Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel now if you've watched my videos if you've been
in my class or anything you'll know right away that i actually use google office google
docs and google sheets and all that to open edit and create new Microsoft Word documents
so i actually don't have to use these i do have them on my Chromebook so let's say if you wanted
to add any of these applications or themes or extensions simply click on add to chrome and add
that application to your google account let's say that you want to add one of these to your account
all you have to do is click on add to chrome and now it's added to your google account if
something was to happen to this Chromebook never fear all you have to do is get another Chromebook
log into the same email or same Gmail account and all the apps get installed automatically for
you okay going back to the chrome web store you notice there's different things such as
extensions themes apps the list of apps this goes on and on which is really well stocked with apps
you can sort by runs offline so what that means is that these apps do not require an online presence
or for you to be online so let's say that you're using a Chromebook out in the field or out at work
and there's no wi-fi or no internet where you're working at all you got to do is install them while
you're online you have to do this while you're still online maybe at home and then once you're
out in the field you'd be able to use that app without the internet and so I'm going to show
you one of those apps that i use quite often and that is my google drive so I'm going to go over
here to the google drive so here i am in my google drive now you notice right away that i have these
settings i would click on settings go in here to settings and then from here it says offline
now i have mine checked on so i can create open edit your recent google docs sheets and slides
files on this device without being online so i can be wow offline they call it here and the
very first time that you do this you need to turn it on by clicking it so again that's in settings
and then simply go to offline and click right here once you click there you're good to go and you can
use your Chromebook offline to edit different uh work it will edit Microsoft word documents
Microsoft Word spreadsheets and everything else for us as well so if you already have an
inventory of Microsoft word documents or Microsoft spreadsheets never fear you can just bring them
along on a thumb drive plug it in and you can actually edit those using your Chromebook while
you're offline okay I'm going to go in and show you another thing that really frustrates a lot
of people here so I'm going to click on files app and within the files app let's say that you have
a particular file and maybe you have all of these movies here like i do and whenever you click it it
turns on a particular app maybe VLC or another app and you don't want that to happen anymore
you don't want to open up that particular app with that file extension so all you have to do is go to
up here with that file highlighted as i have mine click on open and then click on change default
when you click on change default it gives you the apps that can run that type of a file simply
click on the one that you want and it changes the default app so we'll do that again here
Change default and let's open up with the video player it's that easy to change your default app
in opening up files so those are some of the things that frustrate new users to Chromebook
now I'm an adult school teacher and I teach for two different school districts I'm also the master
teacher of technology for a school district so it keeps me rather busy with different schools
what do I do well I teach adults how to use their Chromebook and how to get the most out
of their Chromebook what we do is we go into the google drive google docs google sheets
learn how to do everything with those apps we also learn about google photos and we do
a lot more than just the basics we actually get into using the Chromebook on a really good level
because we're there for 16 weeks in my classes i do have those classes by the way they're called
computer literacy courses i start with very basics and after that I get to more and more of
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very basics and if you've been using your Chromebook or using your computer you could
probably skip number one or even lesson number two and jump right into lesson number three
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