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Teachers can now actively manage students' website tabs to help them stay focused and on task by using the Focus and Make Active features. Please note that the Focus and Make Active features are supported on Chromebooks only at this time.

How does it Work?

In each student's Student Activity section (accessed by clicking on and expanding a student's screen view), applicable tabs will have an Actions button. The Actions button provides the following options: Make Active, Turn Focus On, and Make Active and Focus.

The available Actions options will depend on the state of the tab selected (more on this below). 

Make Active can be used to move a student's Other-Tab (a tab that's not currently in use or being looked at) to their Active-Tab (the tab that's actively opened and being looked at by the student). 

Please note that Make Active can only be used for tabs that aren't already the active tab.

The Focus feature helps keep students on task by setting an Active Tab to "Focus". While a tab is focused, the tab can not be closed and all Other Tabs will temporarily be hidden for the student. Please note the following:

• Focus can be used for 1 webpage at a time, but does not allow focusing an entire website.
• Focus will only persist during the class session. Tabs will become "unfocused" automatically once a class session ends. 
• Focus can only be used for a tab that is already the primary, Active Tab a student has opened.
  
• Teachers can only use the focus tab feature on one student at a time, focusing tab for an entire classroom is not currently supported.

Make Active and Focus is a combination of both the Make Active and Focus features, and can be used to move a non-active tab to "active", and keep it focused for the student.

How to Unfocus a tab

To unfocus a tab, click the "unfocus" button in the lower corner of a student's tile in the Live Session view of a class.

Focus can also be disabled by expanding a student's screen view and clicking Actions > Turn Focus Off. 

Open Tab + Focus Website

Teachers can now open a tab and immediately Focus the tab for individual students. To do this, expand a student's screen view by clicking on their tile, and click the Open new tab button.

Type in the tab to be opened and click the Focus Website toggle. Click "Open Tab" to finish opening and focusing the tab.