How to Have a Different Display on Your Projector Screen than on Your Computer

Do you have your laptop mirrored on your projector screen or Smartboard so your students see what you are working on? Maybe sometimes you would like your screen projected but other times you would like to have​​ private stuff on your screen while your class is watching something else? Read on for some instructions for how to “Extend Your Screen”.  Also read on for a great STEAM Virtual Workshop opportunity for our students grades 7-12.

How to Extend Your Computer Display

1.  Right click on your desktop screen and select Display settings

2.  Scroll down until you see Multiple displays and click on the box underneath this to select “Extend desktop to this Display”

3.  You can close the Display window now. It may take you a bit of playing to figure out how to move your mouse to the other display (it took me a while).  Many teachers open the window with what they would like the students to see and then  click on it and drag it over to the projector screen.