Best Chrome Extensions for Teachers in 2026

Teachers spend much of their day in Chrome: planning, grading, giving feedback and running lessons. These extensions and built-in features save time and help students. Check with your school first, since many schools manage which extensions are allowed.

Disclosure: ADHD Reading Focus, Reading Progress Bar, Word Counter, Sticky Notes Anywhere and Modern Dark Mode are made by Bushe.co.

Feedback and grading

• Mote: leave voice comments in Google Docs, Slides and Classroom.
• Kami: annotate PDFs and worksheets, and work with Google Classroom.
• Word Counter checks the length of any text on a page or a selection, handy for essay limits.

Recording lessons and explanations

• Screencastify or Loom: record your screen and camera for short explanations students can rewatch.
• Chrome's Live Caption (Settings → Accessibility) adds captions to videos and audio playing in the browser.

Reading support for students

• Chrome's Reading mode (right-click → Open in reading mode) strips away clutter and reads text aloud.
• Read&Write and Equatio from Texthelp support reading, writing and math, and many schools have licenses.
• ADHD Reading Focus shows one paragraph at a time in larger text, helpful for students who lose their place.
• Reading Progress Bar shows how far through a page a reader is.

Accessibility built into Chrome

• Page zoom and minimum font size (Settings → Appearance) make text bigger for students who need it.
• Translate: right-click → Translate to English helps families and students reading in another language.
• Caret browsing (F7) lets keyboard users select text without a mouse.

Organization

• Chrome profiles keep school and personal accounts apart.
• Tab groups keep each class's resources together.
• Sticky Notes Anywhere leaves notes on web pages, such as reminders on a resource you'll use next week. Notes stay in your own browser.

Comfort for late grading

Modern Dark Mode darkens bright pages for evening work, while keeping images in their real colors.

Before you install

• Check your school's approved list. School-managed Chromebooks may block extensions not on it.
• For tools students will use, check what student data they collect and whether your district has a privacy agreement with the company.
• Prefer tools that work without student accounts where possible.

For students' own setups, see extensions for students, and for checking images in assignments, checking AI-generated images.