@MikeChampagne Excuse the delay, I’ve been unavailable due to my main job. I have heard of people using this Rollapp version, however I can’t in good faith recommend it. As far as I understand they use their own version of Pencil2D and not exactly what we release, to be able to package it for mobile and web devices.
All the success stories with chromebooks that we’ve been told about have happened using Crostini enabled Chromebooks running a Linux OS distribution as you can read in these topics
As I mentioned before there is an issue related to selections that was recently fixed, but we can’t control what Rollapp developers do with our software since it’s open source and by definition they can do whatever they want with it.
The only way to get the version we release and support, is to install the linux capabilites for Chrome OS
That said, I’ve also been an educator and I know how hard it is for schools to approve of hardware and software changes. If you’d like please take a look at WickEditor @ wickeditor.com
It’s a flash-like animation software that you can use completely online via web browser and it’s open source as well.
It’s very simple and this should at least improve your students experience with animation software while also working around the limitations of Chromebooks. It has a similar interface (timeline, tools area, options area) so they should not have any issue migrating, and since they have been recently funded by mozilla they should be able to quickly fix any issues. There’s also a solid list of tutorials on their website meant for focused children & teens.
Hopefully at some point we can find a dedicated maintainer for an actual Pencil2D app vesion for Chromebooks, but for now it is simply impossible for us to support that even with third party middleware.