How to transfer school apps from Chromebook to Windows

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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 famil
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This is the first year my daughter is required to have a tablet of some sort for school. But the school didn’t give her anything; we had to buy it, because she goes to a private school. Rather than going with a Chromebook, we went with an iPad, an Apple Smart Keyboard, and a bluetooth mouse. She installed Google Classroom on her iPad, and she is now good to go.

An iPad is quite good when you have an Apple Smart Keyboard and a bluetooth mouse — it is like the perfect laptop in terms of portability. We like it so much that my wife now wants a similar setup, now that her laptop has died.

I don’t know how long a Chromebook battery would last, but an iPad battery lasts a long time on a full charge. And a tablet is definitely better for carrying around than a laptop of any sort.

As for transferring apps from a Chromebook to an iPad, it seems that the easiest thing to do is just install a fresh copy of the apps on the iPad, and then transfer your data (if it isn’t already in the cloud, that is).

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That’s an excellent alternative. Do all of her apps work?

One key part of getting Andy’s stuff moved from the school-issued Chromebook to a PC was finding, then using, his Google username.

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Our kids have been using Chromebooks in school for years and pretty much hate them because they’re just, well, cheap.  Poor keyboards, tiny retina burning displays, ads, ads, ads and oh yeah, ads!  They can communicate with phones but not anything on our home network beside internet (the school did that, not Google.)

Their friends in another school district have iPads, which have better displays but typical glitchy touchscreens.  Add a keyboard and mouse and they have a three piece laptop, one piece a month into the school year, “Where’d that mouse go?”  “I dropped the keyboard and stepped on it.  It broke.”

If we can use their laptops, good Dells, instead of Chromebooks, it would be wonderful! Thanks for the tips.

 

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Each school district is different, but I hope these hints help.

Let me know how it turns out.

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I don’t know if it’s still an issue, BUT, when I first used a chromebook on ZOOM back in April I went to google play store by reflex – WRONG. Things were weird until I went to the CHROME store and downloaded the ZOOM client app from there. Same thing happened to a friend of mine. I suggested he go to the CHROME store. Worked for him as well! Everything was MUCH better. However I have not used the chromebook since June. So, maybe it’s different now.

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Play Store apps are Android apps which are essentially emulated on ChromeOS. Chrome Store apps run essentially natively. Use the Chrome Store first.

Ideally they’d combine the two and list both, withe Chrome apps first on the list. Since Chrome apps are being deprecated in Chrome proper, I suspect this is what Google is doing.

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woody wrote:

That’s an excellent alternative. Do all of her apps work?

I’m certain that all of her apps work, because I am the first to hear about it when anything doesn’t work, and so far I haven’t heard any complaints.

It is truly an excellent alternative. Every now and then you have a “light bulb on” moment, when you see a spectacularly good idea. This happened with me the first time I used her new iPad with the smart keyboard and the bluetooth mouse. This setup is a quality machine through and through; and it is big enough where it needs to be (height and width of the screen), and thin and small everywhere else.

Two things which have really impressed me:

* The bluetooth mouse – I bought a Microsoft bluetooth mouse at Best Buy for $20. It took about 10 seconds to connect it to the iPad; and it has worked like a champ ever since. The iPad uses a small circle for a cursor, which I find very appealing to the eye.

* Printing – I have a wireless Canon printer connected via my home router. The iPad is also connected via my home router. So I was very pleasantly surprised when I needed to print something, and the Canon printer driver installed itself! I didn’t actually see it installing, but it took about five seconds before it was available the first time I wanted to print to it (and it has been immediately available ever since), and so I’m thinking that it was installing itself in the background that first time.

* Smart Keyboard – I know I said two things; but I can’t skip talking about the Apple Smart Keyboard. It connects via a small connector and a strong magnet. Whenever you want to use the keyboard, you set the iPad up on an angle like a computer screen, and type away. Using the iPad in this way makes it like a mini laptop. And the bluetooth mouse completes the set. If you prefer using it as a tablet, you fold the keyboard around behind the iPad, out of the way, but available at a moment’s notice.

I got a basic zipper case at Best Buy for $20 for my daughter’s iPad. The mouse also fits in the case.

My wife’s Dell laptop died, and she wants an iPad with a smart keyboard and a bluetooth mouse, just like my daughter. (In all honesty, I want one too!)

woody wrote:

One key part of getting Andy’s stuff moved from the school-issued Chromebook to a PC was finding, then using, his Google username.

My daughter has a Google username for logging into her Google apps. As far as I know, it worked for her from the get-go. (Of course, this is her first machine, so she didn’t have to move the Google stuff from one machine to another.)

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