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Chromebook Prank Guide for Teachers

March 26, 2019 by John R. Sowash

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

Here are 5 tricks and funny 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 Chromebooks 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 wall paper 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.

Teachers  – take a series of funny pictures featuring teachers and staff members and use them as student wallpaper.

Word Replace

Type in a word you want to find and another word you want to replace it with.

I recommend using an emoji symbol (This one 🤪 ) as the replacement. You can get WordReplace from the Chrome Webstore.

Replace a friends  name with an emoji character they remind you of.

Hair on Screen

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

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

Now you know what this extension does.

Cenafy

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

When you install the Cenafy Chrome extension on a friends computer, there is a 1/100 chance that every time they open a new tab, this video will play. 😂

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
  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
  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
  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
  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

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