Create Kiosk App

[Andy Emerine]

Anyone have experience creating a Chrome kiosk app? We want to create an app that will launch a webpage on our web server that is filled with shortcut links. I spent a little bit of time on it yesterday and deployed it through the management console, but the app does not display on our devices. I'm sure it's an issue with my code. 

Our Chromebooks are shared through grades K-6 and we want grades 2-6 to use the sign in screen and grades K & 1 to launch the kiosk app. 

I was hoping that allowing guest mode would work, but there doesn't seem to be a way to configure a homepage for guests. 

[Fano, John]

I've not built one, but this is an interesting idea.  Our k-2 principals are asking for a generic account for students to use, but I think this is a better solution.  If you get this going please let me know.

Thanks!

John :-)
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[Bjorn Behrendt]

I don't think you need it to be an app,   I have one set up that just goes to a google form.    I am on my phone so I can't take a look at the specifics, but it works great and was not that hard to set up.

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[Andy Emerine]

Thank Bjorn. I'm interested in how you set that up. 

[Lisa Fusco]

We use a webpage that lists all the apps that we use and made in the homepage in chrome. http://moriahit.com 

This is a landing/launching page. Is this what you mean?

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Bjorn Behrendt <b...@askbj.net> wrote:

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[Andy Emerine]

Lisa, From the sign in screen students could select the launch page like yours from the Apps menu. I'm trying to make the Chromebooks usable for the KG kids without taking away the login screen for the older users. I've used public kiosk in the past, but the teachers prefer the login screen. 

[Andy Emerine]

Lisa, From the sign in screen students could select the launch page like yours from the Apps menu. I'm trying to make the Chromebooks usable for the KG kids without taking away the login screen for the older users. I've used public kiosk in the past, but the teachers prefer the login screen. 

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 2:37 PM, Lisa Fusco <lfu...@moriahschool.org> wrote:

[Kevin O'Donnell]

The super administrator for the domain can also set certain Web pages to load on login. I have gmail, drive and the acceptable user policy (which is a Google site) open for students and different pages for the staff. You could load a symbaloos too.
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[Stephen Gale]

We use Public Sessions that prelaunch specific pages for K-2 users, though this week we were having our Kindergarteners practice logging into Google instead of just using the Kiosk.  I agree that you wouldn't necessairly need an App, but it would be nice if someone would do the work for NWEA and make one that launches their Web-Based MAPS similar to how TestNav works with Pearson.

[ron.p...@paysonschools.net]

Only experimenting at this point. But for our kiosk OU under Public Session Settings, we put a link under "Pages to Load on Startup". Seems to be easier then creating a private app.

[Mark Smith]

Andy,

I have been experimenting with this same idea. I just started using the Kiosk App builder app, and I think I have figured out how to get the app to show up. Remember I am a chemistry/physics teacher that has taken some coding classes, but it is not my profession. But, I like experimenting and I think I figured it out my problems. 

First make sure in your code there is a 16x16 image and call for that image in the the manifest.json. I don't know if this is what did it, but it was one of the things that I did and then the icon showed up.

The second thing which I found was more important was that I had to set the autologin to the kiosk app first. Then after I autologged in once, I would change the setting back to just allowing and I found the icons of the apps in the "app"  button. That is what worked for me. Sorry, I am late to the party, but I hope this is helpful for some. 

[Stephen Gale]

There was a new "Create Chrome Kiosk App" app.  There was a OMGChrome writeup that makes all these things look much more doable.

http://www.omgchrome.com/googles-new-chrome-app-builder-tool-does-what-it-says-on-the-tin/

Stephen Gale

Director of Technology

West Grand School District

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[Mark Smith]

Stephen,

That is the app I was using!! It is awesome. It took me basically 30 seconds to write and save the app  and another 10 min to organize my images and stuff for uploading to the developer dashboard. It was fantastic.!!!