Using Chrome for Multiple User Accounts
- Google Drive works best on computers inside of Google Chrome web browser.
- You can sign in to Google Chrome directly to help better manage your google account. Here is an article that explains How to Sign in To Chrome. After you login to Chrome, you still need to login to Gmail or Drive, etc. (This will make it so that you can have multiple accounts open at the same time on your device without having to login all the time to access different GMail accounts, etc.)
- Here is an article that explains How to Use Chrome for Multiple Accounts (such as your NIST account and your personal account, to avoid needing to login to services such as GMail every time you switch to your personal account.)
- You can still login to other non-NIST profiles within your NIST Chrome window/persona, but we recommend you use another persona for that.
- If you are already signed in to Google Chrome, you will see your name at top right of every Chrome window like this.
- Which is not to be confused with signing in to GMail or Google Drive which looks like this.
Going Incognito
No, this is not just a way to hide your history. It is a great way for you to check if people can see your website or shared google document. It can also be a way for you to avoid a website to know who you are. It essentially creates a new window in Chrome where you are not logged in as your NIST username.
Make Chrome Better by Using Extensions
Mute Notifications
Have you ever been presenting to students or in a meeting and had an email notification slide across your screen with a confidential subject line? No, lucky you. Be sure it never happens with this Mute Notifications Google Chrome extension.