• How to transfer school apps from Chromebook to Windows

    Posted on August 23, 2020 at 21:05 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    DISTANCE LEARNING

    By Woody and Andy Leonhard

    Over the past few months, I assume many of you have become the local support center for an extended family of kids, all of whom are trying mightily to get into the swing of online learning.

    My fifth-grade son, Andy, is in a school district that spent USD $6 million this year on new Chromebooks. Here’s what he says:

    “You get a Chromebook administered by the district along with supplies. The district mainly uses Zoom for communications. But what I quickly discovered is that the Chrome’s sound output, camera quality, and screen are inferior to our Windows-based home PCs.”

    Fortunately, your school district probably doesn’t require the use of a Chromebook. Ours doesn’t. So our weekend project was to migrate Andy’s entire distance-schooling environment — applications, data, procedures … the whole ball of wax — to his trusty and comparatively beefy Windows PC.

    Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.33.0 (2020-08-24).

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