If you never used Clearly in the past, then now is a great time to try out one of these extensions to help your student focus on their content. All the possibly distracting menus and comments and ads still show up, but are simply moved to the top and bottom of the pageīetween these four extensions hopefully you will find one or more that are a perfect fit for your students, or even for yourself. It does remove the background, and it does simplify the font, but it does not remove other elements from the page. The page will now reload in an easier to read format.

To use Read Mode, click on the extension (which shows up the the URL bar instead of to the right with the other extensions). This final extension is the least successful of the bunch, but is still worth considering. Watch the video to see each one demonstrated and see the rest of the post below for a quick overview of each with links to install them.

Below we will take a look at four options to consider for you and your students. So what alternatives are the for Clearly? Thankfully there are other Chrome extensions that perform a similar function. For more details see Evernote's blog post. If you do not have it installed, it will no longer be available in the Chrome Web Store. If you already have it installed, it may still keep working for now, but without any more updates it may stop functioning overtime. The extension is especially useful for students to help them focus on what they are reading when websites can be full of so many distractions.Įvernote announced on their blog that as of Januthey will no longer be supporting or offering Clearly. When you click the Clearly extension it cleans up the web page you are reading by removing ads, comments, backgrounds, and all other distracting images and elements, leaving only the core content of the page in an easy to read format. It is a simple extension that does an awesome thing. For years one of my favorite Chrome extensions has been Clearly from Evernote.

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