{"id":1495,"date":"2026-07-09T08:23:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/?p=1495"},"modified":"2026-07-09T08:23:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T15:23:04","slug":"how-to-have-a-different-display-on-your-projector-screen-than-on-your-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/2026\/07\/09\/how-to-have-a-different-display-on-your-projector-screen-than-on-your-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Have a Different Display on Your Projector Screen than on Your Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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\u200b\u200b private stuff on your screen while your class is watching something else? Read on for some instructions for how to &#8220;Extend Your Screen&#8221;.\u00a0 Also read on for a great STEAM Virtual Workshop opportunity for our students grades 7-12.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"ms-rteFontSize-4\"><strong>How to Extend Your Computer Display<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 Right click on your desktop screen and select\u00a0<strong>Display settings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0 Scroll down until you see\u00a0<strong>Multiple displays<\/strong>\u00a0and click on the box underneath this to select &#8220;<strong>Extend desktop to this Display<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0 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).\u00a0 Many teachers open the window with what they would like the students to see and then\u00a0 click on it and\u00a0drag it over to the projector screen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u200b\u200b private stuff on your screen while your class is watching something else? Read on for some instructions for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1495\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}