Recently, GeoGebra released a Google Chrome app which runs in the Google Chrome browser. Actually, it’s just a link that goes to http://geogebraweb.appspot.com/. Not sure if it runs in other browsers, but Chrome is pretty much all I use, with the exception of Firefox for a few features that ANGEL (Michigan State’s online class management system) doesn’t do so well when in Chrome.
I think that one of the coolest things about the Chrome app is that you can set it up to save files with your Google Drive (Docs) account, you just have to give it permission to do so. But by doing this, there is no need to save to your computer and try to find where you put it. And of course, since it is on Google Drive, it is easy to share with others as you would any other type of Google document.
The look of the GeoGebra Google Chrome app looks very similar to the non-web version of GeoGebra. It has the same object menu on the left (default), graph area to the right, and input at the bottom. The only thing that I found functionally different from the non-web version is that the right click is non-existent in the Google Chrome app. I ran into this issue when trying to make a graph to use in a paper. The issue with this is that in the non-web program, the right click was needed to change the scale of the graph. In the app, there is no other way (at least I couldn’t find another way) to scale the graph. So basically, you get what you get and can only manipulate by zooming in and out. But zooming only gives cookie-cutter scales and don’t afford the option of creating any scale.
I tweeted GeoGebra about this:
I did this two weeks ago and still haven’t received a response on it yet. Maybe they are working on it and will be updating it soon. Regardless, they have been active on their Twitter account, so why I am getting the silent treatment is beyond me.
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