OneNote Class Notebook is unrivaled for organization and accessibility. There are many reasons you should want to use OneNote with your students, even while using Google Classroom, as stated by this teacher that sent me this email today. In this tutorial video for beginners, learn how to create and use OneNote Class Notebook in Microsoft Teams.Watch all of my videos on Microsoft Teams: https. Sign in to Microsoft 365 with your school credentials. Open the OneNote Class or Staff notebook in which you want to insert a form or quiz. On the Insert tab, select Forms. A Forms for OneNote panel will open and dock on the right side of your OneNote notebook.

Teachers are on the frontlines of enabling the sudden shift to remote learning. Within a matter of weeks, educators have had to quickly adapt their engaging, aligned, in-person lessons into online learning for their students. This incredible change has shed light on the inspiring ingenuity, passion, and commitment of those who support our communities.

What we hear from educators is that they need to be able to transition to remote learning quickly, to connect in a community to share best practices, and to learn from each other.

Based on feedback from our Remote Learning Educator Community, we’ve outlined five ways to help you get the most out of Microsoft Teams, a digital hub for communication and collaboration, during remote learning:

Connection and collaboration: Use the Teams built-in meetings features to effectively hold classroom meetings, collaborate on virtual whiteboards, and share documents. With assignments, conversations, files, notes, and video calls all pulled together, Teams is a great all-in-one hub for the collaborative classroom. Here is a great Teams for Education Quick Start Guide, and we have new updates rolling out regularly with improvements that have been inspired by educators.
Inclusion: In order to ensure learners of all abilities are included, understanding which tools and technologies improve accessibility and foster an inclusive classroom becomes critical. With built-in capabilities like the Immersive Reader, message translation, and Live Captions for meetings, Teams is a non-stigmatizing platform.
Meaningful feedback with rubrics: An important part of remote learning is good teaching practice. Teams Assignments have built-in rubrics. Rubric grading helps increase assignment transparency for students and allows you to give more meaningful feedback. These feedback mechanisms not only help students learn and improve their work, but they’re also a consistent and transparent way for teachers to grade. This has been an incredibly popular feature with both educators and students, and with rubrics now easily sharable, we have seen this practice take off in Teams.
Staff and learning communities: Saving time, being more organized, and collaborating more effectively during remote learning is critical. With Teams being a hub for education, a core part of this also includes built-in Staff teams and Professional Learning Community (PLC) teams to go along with Class Teams. This provides a one-stop shop for educators. Staff Teams and PLC teams allow educators and staff to easily communicate and collaborate during remote learning. We’ve seen many three-ring binders tossed with the paperless use of Staff and PLC teams in schools.
OneNote Class Notebooks, built into Teams: OneNote is a multifaceted note-taking tool that is built into Teams and can be used for a variety of lessons and activities. With OneNote Class Notebooks, you have a personal workspace for every student, a content library for handouts, and a collaboration space for lessons and creative activities. You can also embed all sorts of interactive apps, lessons, and content onto the OneNote page. Especially with remote learning, paper notes and handouts are difficult to work with, and having a digital notebook for the class is a natural fit.

Remote learning is a journey for all of us, and we are grateful to the diligence and creativity of educators during this time. Please visit our Remote Learning Page (higher education here) and (K-12 here) for all of our resources. Thank you for all you have done for students around the world. We are looking forward to continuing to work with you.

Testimonial

Objections

But first let’s clear up a couple objections.

We’re a Google (school, district, whatever).

I don’t hear people say that about Nearpod, Buncee, Wakelet, Discovery Ed, Kahoot or any other non-Google product. I don’t hear people say that about Chrome extensions or add-ons, which are by definition not created by Google. When you want a product or tool that doesn’t something that Google doesn’t do, you use it with your Google stuff. That works the same way with Microsoft products. So, you can share videos in Microsoft Stream, or an interactive Word document, or use a Microsoft Teams meeting on a day when Meet is acting up, or, put a link to a OneNote notebook inside of your Google Classroom.

2. OneNote is too complicated.

Every week I get lots of emails asking, “How do I do x, y, or z.” Sometimes I give them a list of options. I’m amazed how often OneNote is on the list. And how rarely people choose it. They usually pick the simplest solution. But then they’re back next week asking for a solution to a different problem, and instead of OneNote, they pick a different, simpler solution. But when you add up all the different “simpler” solutions, they’re having to learn to use a lot of different platforms, and so are their students.

My top ten-ish reasons to use OneNote

13. Translation/Transcript (coming soon)

Using Onenote In The Classroom

This is actually really powerful, but my district doesn’t have it yet. When we do, this will move near the top of the list. When you “start a conversation” on Conversations – Microsoft Translator (translator.microsoft.com) and share the code with your students, they will be able to see a live transcript of everything you say in any of over 60 different languages (including English, of course). This transcript is saved inside OneNote under a new tab called “transcripts”.

12. Dictation

OneNote specialized in Accessibility. Put your cursor anywhere you want, select dictate and start talking. Several languages are also supported.

This video is about Dictation in PowerPoint, but it functions the same across all of Microsoft Office.

11. Stickers

Yes, this one is just for fun, but don’t underestimate the power of stickers regardless of how old your students are. Many are customizable. (I’ve seen WCL teachers use them in other languages.)

10. Organization

OneNote was originally a digital portfolio, so it is designed for organization. The structure is notebooks with sections with pages, and you can add section groups and subpages for additional layers of nesting. It’s one place for everything but organized.

9. Student Choice

Classroom Onenote Add Ins

There are so many ways to insert or enter content. So many modalities supported. I often recommend OneNote to teachers that like Padlet but want more than 6 pages. Students can insert a PDF or Word document right on the page (on a Chromebook. If they are on a Windows or Mac device, they can insert other file types.) They can type anywhere. Students can dictate anywhere. They can draw or write anywhere with digital inking. They can record audio clips anywhere on the page. Students can record video in Flipgrid or elsewhere and embed the link right on the page.

8. Teacher choice

Onenote Classroom Setup

See student choice- you have all the same options when providing feedback. And don’t forg