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The Evergreen Library currently loans Chromebooks for off campus check-out. Please review the help articles below to get the most out of your Chromebook experience </p>
 
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====What's a Chromebook and how is it different from my Mac or Windows Laptop?====
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*A Chromebook is a laptop of a different variety. Instead of Windows 10 or Mac OS X, Chromebooks run Google's Chrome OS. These machines are designed to be used primarily while connected to the Internet, with most applications and documents living in the cloud.
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*They do not run locally installed applications but rather rely on Google's Cloud Apps like GMAIL, Google Drive, Youtube, etc to provide functionality and help you complete common web based tasks
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The Evergreen Library currently loans Chromebooks for check-out.
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====What can I do with it?====
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*So long as you have a wifi connection and a [https://accounts.google.com/signup Google Account] you can do quite a bit
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**GMAIL - feature rich Email
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**Google Drive - Storage and creation of documents. Word Processing, presentations, simple spreadsheets, calendar, etc
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**Canvas - use the Chrome browser to view your Evergreen Canvas Site and turn in homework documents by syncing your [https://guides.instructure.com/m/4152/l/73172-how-do-i-connect-to-google-drive-as-a-web-service-in-canvas Google Drive with Canvas].  
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*Without wireless internet (wifi) the device is not functional
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*Microsoft Excel and Statistics Homework is best completed using Microsoft Excel in one of the Evergreen Computer Labs
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*Video Editing capabilities are limited to what is available in Youtube
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Chromebooks are available to current students (including ILC students and interns) as well as staff and faculty. We also have the necessary charging cables available. Chromebooks check out for the entire quarter, and may be checked out from the library's circulation desk during our [https://www.evergreen.edu/offices-services/library/hours open hours].
  
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Learn more about our Chromebooks at https://libguides.evergreen.edu/things/chromebook
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Chromebook.png

The Evergreen Library currently loans Chromebooks for check-out.

Chromebooks are available to current students (including ILC students and interns) as well as staff and faculty. We also have the necessary charging cables available. Chromebooks check out for the entire quarter, and may be checked out from the library's circulation desk during our open hours.

Learn more about our Chromebooks at https://libguides.evergreen.edu/things/chromebook

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