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Chromebook Prank Guide for Teachers

March 10, 2023 by John R. Sowash

You spend a lot of time at school. Why not have a little fun!

Here are 5 tricks and fun things that you can do with your students, staff, or administrator.

Most of them will require briefly accessing someone’s Chromebook (without them knowing).

You can also make friends with your IT director and push some of these tricks to student devices (temporarily) using the Google Admin Console.

Whether it’s April Fools Day or you just need a laugh, these Chromebook pranks are harmless and highly entertaining!

Google Gravity

Google Gravity is a spoof Google homepage that “falls to pieces” as soon as you move the mouse. Set up this prank by going to Chrome Settings > Appearance > and changing the default home page to this link.

Google Gravity

Even after Google falls to pieces, the search box still works! 

Fun with Wallpaper

The Google Admin Console has the ability to push out wallpaper to the Chromebooks managed by your district. This provides all sorts of entertaining possibilities!

  • Broken Screen – find an image of a shattered computer screen and push it out to all of your students. They will freak out when they think (for a second) that their screen has shattered!
  • iPad – Turn your Chromebooks into iPads. Push out a wallpaper that looks like the home screen of an ipad.
  • Error message – upload various simulated error messages as the desktop background.
  • Teachers  – take a series of funny pictures featuring teachers and staff members and use them as student wallpaper.
Three wallpaper ideas for april fools day.

Rickroll

Ultimate Rickroller

Possibly the oldest of all internet pranks, Rickrolling involves unexpectedly sending someone to Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” music video.

The ultimate Rickroll Chrome Extension makes this a simple task! Install the extension on someone’s computer to randomly send them to variations of the music video when they click on a link.

Tip: this extension includes support for Schooltube which makes it a great option for schools that block student access to YouTube.

Hair on Screen

Ever had a hair on your computer screen? It’s super annoying and must be immediately removed!

Now imagine there is hair on your screen, but no matter what you do, you can’t get rid of it.

Now you know what this extension does.

Cenafy

John Cena is an immensely popular pro wrestler with an over-the-top theme song and entry video.

The Cenafy Chrome extension is a variation of Rickrolling, with the loud and obnoxious appearance of the John Cena hype video.

One of the comments from the Chrome extension is from Charlie: “Opened up a new tab and it blasted out in the middle of class Lmao🤣 got detention but was worth it🤣🤣”

Prank ‘em

I will wrap up this prank post with the ultimate prank extension: Prank ‘em.

This one is super sneaky because you can adjust the frequency to make it unpredictable.

Options include turning images upside down, hiding the mouse cursor, making text blurry, or rendering everything in black and white.

I installed it on my own computer, forgot to disable it, and couldn’t figure out why my screen was in black and white!

Have some fun, but don’t get yourself in trouble! As with any prank, make sure it is in good taste and won’t cause harm. When in doubt, err on the side of caution. 

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Amelia says

    September 10, 2020 at 11:43 pm

    How do you find a picture on wallpaper that looks like a shattered screen? I’d like to pull this prank on my Big Brother.

    Reply
    • admin says

      September 21, 2020 at 5:21 pm

      Just do a Google image search for “broken screen.” ?

      Reply
    • SomeoneyouKNOW! says

      December 19, 2020 at 2:14 am

      Not sure. Although I really want to pull the 5th prank on my principal!

      Reply
    • Mandi Stephenson says

      January 4, 2022 at 4:48 pm

      You just type shattered screen wallpaper

      Reply
    • Irene says

      April 7, 2024 at 5:13 pm

      I think you just search it up

      Reply
    • VV says

      April 30, 2024 at 5:49 pm

      YOU CAN JUST LOOK UP SHATTERD COMPUTER SCREEN

      Reply
  2. alarick says

    September 29, 2020 at 5:30 pm

    how u sign into admin console?

    Reply
    • admin says

      October 7, 2020 at 2:37 am

      You must be a system admin for your domain.

      Reply
  3. Tabitha says

    November 27, 2020 at 5:05 pm

    what if the sights say blocked by admin ?

    Reply
    • admin says

      November 29, 2020 at 2:54 am

      the site is blocked by your school admin. You’ll need to use a personal device to visit.

      Reply
      • anonymous says

        December 19, 2020 at 8:48 pm

        yeah, my school also blocked a lot of these pranks I really wanted to do the word replace one lol.

        Reply
        • admin says

          December 23, 2020 at 5:04 pm

          ?

          Reply
      • wyatt says

        August 26, 2021 at 9:29 pm

        on the web store search up unblock everything it should have a nuke symbol and the app is like google so it proprobly work

        Reply
        • Delaney says

          September 29, 2021 at 1:39 am

          It was blocked for me

          Reply
          • J Doe says

            November 9, 2021 at 5:23 pm

            Ironic

        • Jakob says

          December 13, 2021 at 1:29 am

          Mines School firewall is really tough time trying to do a prank on my friend
          It would block me in an instant

          Reply
    • anonymous says

      January 4, 2024 at 10:00 am

      click esc+power button and and reload site at the same time and go on advanced power settings i think it is and turn on developer mode

      Reply
  4. John says

    December 11, 2020 at 2:42 pm

    These pranks were AMAZING!

    Reply
  5. Chuck Norris says

    February 2, 2021 at 5:34 pm

    you need one more:
    Type “Fool” into a chrome book and leave. trust me on this. it works 100% of the time. quick, easy, and hilarious.

    Reply
  6. SCAMGUY says

    February 10, 2021 at 1:32 am

    NO NO NOOOO

    Reply
  7. SCAMGUY says

    February 10, 2021 at 1:33 am

    IT NO WORK

    Reply
  8. apil says

    February 22, 2021 at 6:40 pm

    hey you

    Reply
  9. Esmeralda aviles says

    March 10, 2021 at 5:31 pm

    haha creepy

    Reply
  10. mikayla says

    April 9, 2021 at 1:58 pm

    ok so umm how do google gravity im on school computer

    Reply
    • Kendall Bostrom says

      March 19, 2024 at 4:19 pm

      Go to Google.com and type google gravity but don’t press enter, next press I’m feeling lucky and boom, have fun!

      Reply
      • No-L says

        April 21, 2024 at 12:51 am

        thats for just being able to search it. Its still blocked if you click it.

        Reply
  11. sh*tman88 says

    April 25, 2021 at 5:34 pm

    it worked!!!!!!!!!!

    Reply
  12. zayne d says

    May 19, 2021 at 12:04 pm

    How do you search these items on your Chromebook? Also, How do you get to google?

    Reply
  13. juliana says

    June 30, 2021 at 8:35 am

    How do you put a wallpaper on your Chromebook next to the time

    Reply
  14. Nathan S. says

    January 21, 2022 at 3:36 pm

    Do you guys know the one where if you hit ctrl, shift, redo button it will tilt your screen

    Reply
    • Adeline Irby says

      October 30, 2023 at 11:31 pm

      What do you mean by REDO?

      Reply
      • N/A says

        June 12, 2024 at 8:45 pm

        the refresh button
        also here is another one:
        press ctrl alt shift and refresh

        Reply
  15. Leah Nagata says

    January 31, 2022 at 8:25 pm

    ahh

    Reply
  16. jj says

    April 14, 2022 at 3:09 pm

    can you put more pranks on the website pleace.

    Reply
  17. Orion says

    September 15, 2022 at 5:23 pm

    i cant do none of them bc my school blocked them all

    Reply
  18. Brooklyn Tesla says

    November 6, 2022 at 3:27 am

    I got them to work and I pranked my teacher with it, it was hilarious

    Reply
  19. Hadley says

    December 20, 2022 at 5:23 am

    yeah it worked on my teacher they freaked out they had to call our computer guy to help but little did she know it was a wallpaper screen.LOL

    Reply
    • John R. Sowash says

      December 20, 2022 at 6:50 pm

      Nice! 😂

      Reply
  20. trishia says

    January 15, 2023 at 2:31 pm

    Wait, what school do you go to,i think my dad teaches there his name is Mr.Brown!

    Reply
  21. Waffles says

    February 28, 2023 at 3:25 pm

    I found this thing that makes a pop-up, use a link to a video (rickroll most likely) and put it in landing page, 123 for serial number, than put anything in “Name” then a pop-up should come that brings them to a rickroll

    Reply
  22. Goofyahhquandledingle says

    March 15, 2023 at 3:38 pm

    love it! It all works!

    Reply
  23. Ezekiel Casias says

    April 12, 2023 at 2:51 am

    how do I get to google gravity if i already tried?

    Reply
  24. Joshua says

    May 9, 2023 at 7:51 pm

    This prank app helped me prank my dad

    Reply
  25. Joshua says

    May 9, 2023 at 7:52 pm

    This prank app helped me prank my dad and he fell for it

    Reply
  26. idk says

    September 9, 2023 at 4:16 am

    Funny Pranks!

    Reply
  27. jasmine says

    September 21, 2023 at 12:09 am

    yeah my teacher keeps on blocking all of these sites that i go on everyday when i get home from school?

    Reply
    • I'M A TRUMPET! says

      December 1, 2023 at 7:13 pm

      ME TO

      Reply
  28. sierra says

    November 2, 2023 at 4:43 pm

    it was blocked for me to

    Reply
    • conner says

      March 1, 2024 at 9:13 pm

      rickrolled my teaacher with it

      Reply
  29. yourmom says

    March 19, 2024 at 3:47 am

    my school blocked all of them except mrdoob and i wanted a funny reaction from my friends

    Reply
  30. SHrek lover 3000 says

    March 20, 2024 at 7:36 pm

    I successfully wasted my life reading these comments although I learned how to put a Shrek on my wallpaper and lets just say he looking mad good,…. in that bakini <333333 😉

    Reply
  31. holden says

    April 22, 2024 at 7:09 pm

    did the rickroll one on my sister and she gave me a black eye

    Reply
    • John R. Sowash says

      May 7, 2024 at 1:53 am

      🤣

      Reply
  32. Slay says

    April 30, 2024 at 9:39 pm

    Everything is blocked like how do they find out EVERYTHING?🤔

    Reply
    • System Admin says

      August 2, 2024 at 6:13 am

      They use a filter that blocks out keywords, no matter the site (even if you’re supposed to use it! :()

      Reply
    • nathan says

      October 30, 2024 at 11:46 pm

      they install an extension that lets them see everything you have done on the computer called goguardian. they can see your search history, browsing history, site history, and they also have a video playback of what you have done in the last 30 days

      Reply
  33. System Admin says

    August 2, 2024 at 6:07 am

    They use a filter that just generically blocks every site with certain keywords. But it glitches sometimes, on my computer the letters ‘H-O-R’ are blocked to keep us from looking up horror movies and stories. (Gee, I SURE wonder who started THAT! 😉 I can’t look up anything with those letters now. I did manage to hack into admin though.

    Reply
    • nathan says

      October 30, 2024 at 11:42 pm

      the same thing with my school except with the word ” unblocked ” so we don’t search unblocked games (i found out that you can just type unblooked and it would work. you should try that with horror. just type “hoorror” and it will proboly work). The next day our english teacher made us find out the definition of some words and draw a picture of them and one of them was unblocked. obviously everyone new what unblocked meant but I still find it funny.

      Reply
  34. nathan says

    October 30, 2024 at 11:33 pm

    how do you do that one prank that makes some words auto correct to other words?

    Reply
  35. nathan says

    October 31, 2024 at 12:42 am

    another way to prank your friends: type control shift reload and it will rotate your screen.

    Reply
  36. CraZyPerson says

    November 20, 2024 at 6:40 am

    Ctrl+Alt+Shift+R (hold) (Factory Reset) well…this is just evil 🙂

    Reply
  37. Kohl clark says

    February 5, 2025 at 4:08 pm

    So about that, the school blocked all games and lots of websites, we can’t even change out wallpapers, and the google screen thingy is blocked and is considered a game.

    Reply
  38. Dude With Friends says

    March 29, 2025 at 12:08 am

    Bro, aint no way. So basically I just did a harmless prank on my teacher with the thing that you do ctrl + shift + alt + reload and with ctrl + shift + reload and with ctrl + search + d. After that, she was so confused and I told her to ctrl + shift+ alt + r (when you hold it, it factory resets your Chromebook wild). When she did, I made her reset her progress, files, Google Classrooms, test answers, and more teacher thingies. She got me afterschool detention. AND SHE HAD TO GET THE TECH DUDE. wild and pure evil

    Reply

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