Good News

When you sign in to Chrome, all your data (like browsing history, bookmarks, and extensions) are automatically there. This linked data is good news because you can have the same web experience on all the different computers you may use.

Bad News

Chrome keeps you logged in automatically unless you purposefully sign out of Chrome. This forced log-in is bad news because it means that the next person to use the computer will have access to all your data (like browsing history, bookmarks, extensions & possibly mail & docs).
So if you are on a shared computer, you must REMOVE yourself from Chrome!

When you "remove a person" from Chrome, all their Chrome data will be erased from the device. This action can't be undone.
This is different from signing out, which stops syncing to the Google Account but keeps data on the device.
In both cases, if you've synced your Chrome data to a Google Account (like @lexingtonma.org), you'll be able to get it back anywhere you sign in to Chrome.

In the top-right corner of the browser window, click the button for the current user - which is you! (You might see your name or a picture)
Select Switch person.

You will see a box with your name on it. If you see other names, that means other people have not removed themselves from Chrome!
In the top-right corner of the person’s card, click the downward arrow.
Click Remove This Person.
Another box appears making sure you really want to remove this person - click Remove This Person.

Read & Write Better: How to use Read&Write for Google

When (and only when) you are logged into your @lexingtonma account and you open your Google doc or a website, you will see the purple puzzle piece appear. Click on the puzzle piece to access the Read&Write extension.

Once you click on the puzzle piece, and a series of boxes open asking you for different levels of access, you will have to click “Yes” or “Accept” for each box in order to use this extension.
After you click on all the boxes, you will then be able to use the extension.

Highlight a passage, click the play button and listen to the text read out loud.
Highlight passages and even color code different areas with the four pens. When you are done reading, click on the rainbow circle to collect all the highlights into a new doc, which you can share with your teacher or other students.
Highlight a word, click the dictionary icon and get a definition. Then click on the bulleted list and a get a new document with all the words & definitions you highlighted!

The extension also allows you to work with PDFs and websites, too. The toolbar has all of the same functionality as listed above, but with PDFs you get a bonus feature - featured in the cloud image in the pic below.

The bonus feature allow you to “pin” an annotation or question in a document, which places a pin image on the document, which you can share with students, with pins in place.
Students can click on the pin image to read your annotation or activity. They can then click on the T icon in the toolbar to create a text box that answers the pinned question.

To use a PDF, you cannot just open the document (see below)

You need to access the PDF in the document list of Drive and then see the picture below:

Read & Write can access the same functionality on websites, too! Plus it has an added feature that allows you to simplify the text on the site!
Read&Write for Google has a tool that allows you to simplify the information on a webpage and reduce it to text only without the distractions of videos and links etc.
When you are in chrome, the purple puzzle piece should appear on the URL bar. Click it to make the toolbar appear. Then click the icon on the right that looks like cascading lines (see pics below)