{"id":1620,"date":"2026-07-09T09:52:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2026-07-09T09:52:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:52:36","slug":"touch-pad-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/2026\/07\/09\/touch-pad-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Touch Pad Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bWelcome back\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b and all the best to you all in the new year! Am I the\u00a0only one\u200b\u200b\u00a0out there who struggles with using the touch pad on my laptop?\u00a0I don&#8217;t know how many times I have accidentally used two fingers and enlarged my screen so much\u00a0that I can&#8217;t read it (you can press Ctrl +0\u00a0to make it go back to 100% if you are online).\u00a0 Here are some touch pad tips that might help you when you don&#8217;t have a mouse. These can also be handy for our students who often don&#8217;t have access to a mouse. Please read on for touch pad tricks and some learning opportunities for those interested in learning more about Brightspace.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/07\/Touch-Pad-Tricks.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1621\" src=\"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/07\/Touch-Pad-Tricks.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/07\/Touch-Pad-Tricks.png 605w, https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/07\/Touch-Pad-Tricks-233x300.png 233w, https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2026\/07\/Touch-Pad-Tricks-548x705.png 548w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bWelcome back\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b and all the best to you all in the new year! Am I the\u00a0only one\u200b\u200b\u00a0out there who struggles with using the touch pad on my laptop?\u00a0I don&#8217;t know how many times I have accidentally used two fingers and enlarged my screen so much\u00a0that I can&#8217;t read it (you can press Ctrl +0\u00a0to make [&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-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620","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=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1623,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions\/1623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learn71.ca\/tech-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}