The Right Way to Switch Between Google Accounts

You probably have multiple Google accounts: elmhurst205, personal, graduate school, etc.

You may have let students or colleagues log into their Google accounts on your computer.

If you log into these Google accounts in the wrong way, it can cause Chrome, Hapara, WeVideo, Google Classroom, and Google Drive to get confused about which account you want to use.

Don't use this method!:

Instead, you should create multiple Chrome user profiles:

Here's a video about how to add Chrome user profiles:

Note #1: Make sure to also remove the accounts that were added in the wrong way.

Note #2: This will only help if you are fastidious about going to "switch person" to access your other account.  If you "add account" even once, you'll be back to square one.

A simpler way to avoid the problem is to use Internet Explorer or Firefox to access your personal account and Chrome to access your elmhurst205.org account.

Contact an ITC if you'd like help setting up multiple users.