Scientific Calculator for Schools: Admin Settings

Scientific Calculator

For schools and organizations: an administrator can turn features of the Chrome extension off for everyone they manage, for a class during a test for example. A feature turned off leaves the calculator at once, its option is locked with "Turned off by your administrator", and students cannot turn it back on.

What can be turned off

Detached Mode

The calculator in a window of its own.

Turns off the calculator on every page too, which opens this window.

detachedMode

Calculator on every page

The calculator button on the side of every page.

pageButton

Formulas and constants

The searchable formulas of geometry, physics, money and more, and the constants of math and science.

formulas

Converter

Units of length, area, volume, mass, temperature, speed and more.

converter

Graph

The graph of functions, equations and points, with its own window.

graph

Solve

The roots of equations, integrals, slopes and sums, and probability.

solve

Statistics

The count, sum, mean, standard deviation, median and more of a list of numbers.

statistics

Numbers

Matrices and vectors, complex numbers, bases and bits, text codes, prime factors, modular arithmetic, primes, exact numbers, fractions and rounding.

numbers

In the Google Admin Console

Open the extensions

In admin.google.com, go to Devices › Chrome › Apps & extensions › Users & browsers.

Choose the students

Pick their organizational unit on the left.

Add the extension

If it is not listed yet: the yellow +, then Add from Chrome Web Store, and search for Scientific Calculator by Raad Altaie.

Paste the settings

Click the extension, paste into Policy for extensions on the right, set each feature to false to turn it off or true to leave it on, as the formulas here, and Save.

Policy for extensions

{
    "detachedMode": { "Value": false },
    "pageButton": { "Value": false },
    "formulas": { "Value": true },
    "converter": { "Value": false },
    "graph": { "Value": false },
    "solve": { "Value": false },
    "statistics": { "Value": false },
    "numbers": { "Value": false }
}

The browsers take it within minutes, or at once after a restart. To turn a feature on again, set it to true or take its line out.

Check it on a student's device

Open chrome://policy, click Reload policies, and find the extension's settings under its name. Its options page shows each feature turned off as locked.

Without the Admin Console

Windows

DWORD values, 0 for off, under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\3rdparty\extensions\fnplhdldnhaodknidfddmkfdhlhjihpd\policy

macOS

A configuration profile for the domain com.google.Chrome.extensions.fnplhdldnhaodknidfddmkfdhlhjihpd, with a boolean for each setting.

Linux

The same settings in a JSON policy file in /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed/, under 3rdparty › extensions › fnplhdldnhaodknidfddmkfdhlhjihpd.

fnplhdldnhaodknidfddmkfdhlhjihpd is the extension's ID, the 32 letters at the end of its address in the Chrome Web Store.