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1. #Auto text expander 2 for chrome how to#
2. #Auto text expander 2 for chrome code#
3. #Auto text expander 2 for chrome windows#

(Ironically, it does not work in WordPress editing. I simply google “blah blah blah symbol” and copy and paste the symbol into the text expansion.ĭid I mention this also works in Google forms? This could be life changing for all you Geometry teachers out there! Think trg = Δ, cng = ≅, exp2 = 2, theta = θ, sigma = Σ. Oh, ahem, did you also see what I did there with the actual π symbol? Yes, you can also use symbols in your shortcuts, and make shortcuts for just symbols. Like if everyone thought cosine was 0 at π, you could have “c0” expand to “Remember cosine is the x-coordinate! Where is π radians on the x-axis?” Make shortcuts for commonly used comments (wn: “watch your negatives!”) and/or make specific comment shortcuts for the actual assignment. I see this also being handy to leave feedback on Google and Desmos. I also added “gm” for Good Morning! as an email salutation and “tmc” for Thanks, Meg Craig for my signature.

Body: type failtest, type the grade, send. The puts the cursor in that spot so you can input the grade.īut “my class” is fairly generic, eh? Well, you could type the actual course in the subject line of the email use the text expansion algI to put “Algebra I with Probability” in the subject line of the email.Ĥ. Then you could make “failassign” to be the same thing, but have the reason being that they have not completed assignments. Please let me know if you have questions, My tutoring zooms are Monday and Wednesday at 2:00 pm. Your student currently has a in my class. So you could make “failtest” to expand to: For example, maybe you need to send emails about failing grades.

#Auto text expander 2 for chrome code#

(The %clip% code inserts whatever is on your clipboard.)īut you can really put ANYTHING in the expansion section. Here are some examples it comes preloaded with: Well, you set it up so you type a few letters and it expands it into your personalized phrase. If you still do a lot of work in MS Office, you may want to research into one of the system-wide ones mentioned in the Wired article. We’re a Google school so I do everything in Chrome now anyway.

I did about 3 minutes of research and went with Auto Text Expander.

#Auto text expander 2 for chrome windows#

But then it didn’t work in Windows Vista and I sort of forgot about it because mostly I used MS Word and created my own shortcuts in there.īut then an article from Wired reminded me about them and I’ve been using one this week and, well, as I said, it’s magical. I used to use one way back in Windows XP and I had a teacher say it was one of the most helpful things he ever installed.

#Auto text expander 2 for chrome how to#

This may not solve *all* of your current problems in life, but it may help with a few: that email you send every time a new student comes to class, the list of suggestions on how to improve your grade, wanting to leave the same comment on multiple students’ feedback, working in Google Docs or Forms and needing a math symbol, having a really long course title name that you always have to type out, being too lazy to type your entire name at the end of an email.