In this episode, we are ramping up your productivity with our favourite keyboard shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts can save you so much time, especially as they add up over days, weeks, and months. We'll go over the keyboard shortcuts that we know and love to help you save some of your precious time and sanity!

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Featured Content

• Google Workspace Keyboard Shortcuts - includes shortcuts for Gmail, Chrome, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Meet
• Screencastify Keyboard Shortcuts - master list
• How to Customize Keyboard Shortcuts in Screencastify - Blog Post
• Keyboard Shortcuts covered in this episode:
  • Keyboard shortcuts menu in Google - cmd/ctrl + /
  • New tab - cmd/ctrl + T (Chrome)
  • Open up last closed tab - cmd/ctrl + shift + T (Chrome)
  • Adding a hyperlink - cmd/ctrl + K
  • Screenshot copied to clipboard (mac) - cmd + opt + shift + 4
  • Screenshot (PC) - windows key + shift + S
  • Find - cmd/ctrl + F
  • Find and replace - cmd/ctrl + shift + H
  • Undo - cmd/ctrl + Z
  • Redo - cmd/ctrl + Y
  • Add a comment - cmd /ctrl+ option/alt + M (esp in Slides) - use in conjunction with Mote
  • Superscript - cmd/ctrl + . (you need to do this one again to exit)
  • Subscript - cmd/ctrl + , (you need to do this one again to exit)
  • Paste and match formatting - cmd/ctrl + shift + V (maybe don't share this one with your students?)
  • Start a bulleted list - cmd/ctrl + shift + 8
  • Start a numbered list - cmd/ctrl + shift + 7
  • Slides/Drawings specific
    • Send forward - cmd/ctrl + arrow up
    • Send backwards - cmd/ctrl + arrow down
    • Send it to front - cmd/ctrl + shift + arrow up
    • Sends it to back- cmd/ctrl + shift + arrow down
    • Zoom in - cmd/ctrl + option/alt + +
    • Zoom out - cmd/ctrl + option/alt + -
    • Select the next shape - tab
    • Select the previous shape - shift + tab
    • Selecting multiple options - shift + click
    • Grouping - cmd/ctrl + option/alt + G (add shift to ungroup)
    • Shapegrams - Tony Vincent
  • Screencastify specific
    • Pause/resume recording - option + shift + P (Mac), alt + shift + P (PC)
    • Show/Hide the annotation toolbar - option + T (Mac), alt + T (PC)

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