Take a screenshot or record your screen on Chrome OS

Tip: Screenshots and recordings are automatically copied to your clipboard.

1. Take a screenshot:

a. If your Chromebook has it, press the Screenshot key.

If your Chromebook has no Screenshot key:：

At the bottom right of your screen, select Settings Screen Capture .

Press Shift + Ctrl + Show windows.

If your external keyboard doesn't have a Show windows key , press Ctrl + Shift + F5.

b. In the menu at the bottom, select Screenshot.

c. Select an option:

Take a full screen screenshot.

Take a partial screenshot.

Take a window screenshot.

Tips:

• On your keyboard, to change the section that you want to screenshot, you can also press the space bar.

• You can also change the size of your screenshot. On your keyboard, press the Tab key until one of the circle corners of the section is highlighted.

• On your keyboard, to change the height of your screenshot, press the Up arrow or Down arrow keys.

• On your keyboard, to change the width of your screenshot, press the Left arrow or Right arrow keys.

• To take a screenshot, you can also use the menu on your screen. At the bottom, select the time Screen capture.

2. Record your screen

a. Press Shift + Ctrl +Show windows .

b. At the bottom, select Screen record .

c. Select an option:

Take a full screen screenshot.

Take a partial screenshot.

Take a window screenshot.

d. At the bottom, select Settings 。

To record a video with your camera on, turn on Front Camera.

To record a video with audio, you can select:

Device audio

Microphone

Device audio and microphone

To show key combos, mouse clicks, and touch gestures when you record, turn on Show clicks and keys.

e. To start recording:

To record full screen: Click anywhere on your screen.

To record partial screen: Select a part of the screen to be recorded. From the drop down, you can select:

Record video: File format is .webm.

Record GIF: File format is .gif.

To record window: Select a window to record.

f. To stop recording, at the bottom right, select Stop recording.

To stop recording, you can also use the keyboard shortcut Search + Shift + X.

Tips:

• GIFs don’t capture audio or video input.

• To protect your privacy, only key combos with modifier keys will show for show keys and clicks.