About Keyboard layout remapping
If you're going to be typing in German for a while, it may be useful to switch to the German keyboard layout as needed. Settings &gt; Keyboard &gt; Input Sources You can use a keyboard shortcut or the menu bar icon to quickly swap between the layouts when working on assignments (but with much faster access to the accented letters you want.



Otherwise you are looking at manually editing your U.S. layout to change the individual function of the keys, which is do-able but likely less desirable.