Using Onenote For School

Microsoft Onenote For Students
Using Onenote Productively For School
Using Onenote For School
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Visit www.onenote.com in any modern web browser, and then click the purple Sign In button to sign in with your Microsoft account (or your work or school account). There’s nothing to download or install — OneNote for the web is always ready to use! How to update it. OneNote Class Notebooks have a personal workspace for every student, a content library for handouts, and a collaboration space for lessons and creative activities. Class Notebook Sign In Sign in with your Office 365 account from your school to get started. We would like to share our experience using OneNote Learning Tools at St George´s College North, a bilingual school in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. After attending Microsoft E 2 Educational Exchange 2015 in Seattle and learning the possibilities OneNote Learning Tools had to offer, I had to encourage my learning community to explore the potential for using this technology in. Organize your classroom with OneNote The ultimate tool for classroom organization, OneNote enables you to organize your lesson plans and course content in your own digital notebook ensuring you keep track of every assignment or a flash of inspiration. Keep your content in one place. Create a Notebook. Just like physical notebooks, OneNote notebooks are a collection of note pages.

Moving to OneNote

Now, any move and change within a school will face difficulties. Whether that’s being met by staff who believe there’s no reason to change, or general hiccups along the way.

Microsoft Onenote For Students

That’s not to say that change can’t be fun or really improve your procedures for the better. With a little work, and some “OneNote” heroes, you could find the benefits of OneNote massively worthwhile.

We’ll take you through a few steps that could help you get to grips with using this fab-u-lous Microsoft tool. First off, it’s always worth remembering that if you use something frequently you’ll always improve. Whilst it may be terrifying to start your students off before you’ve fully got to grips with the tech, bear in mind that they’ll probably find the entire experience massively intuitive – and they’ll be teaching you how to at the end of it!

For Staff

Using OneNote as a collaborative tool

Basic Use (note sharing)
The leadership team decide to introduce OneNote to improve the way your school shares notes from meetings. These notes become immediately accessible to everyone who was required at the meeting. Once actions have been taken, you can filter the notes down to the wider team quickly and easily. Due to the collaborative nature of OneNote, if there’s a query about a particular comment from the meeting one can highlight and question it on the fly. It’s easy enough to simply write a question next to the note. This central notes record also improves the efficiency of follow-up tasks and forming the agenda for the next meeting.
Intermediate Use (lesson planning)
Each week your year group or stage group meet to discuss the planning and resources required for the following week. Wouldn’t it be great if the notes you make, and the resources you choose, and the planning you set are all available within one “workbook”? Well, use the free Class NoteBook add-in to create content libraries and resource banks filled with helpful content that teachers and TA’s have access to. There’s no more endless files of printed paper, and certainly no more relentless to-and-fro emailing. OneNote puts collaboration at your fingertips so you can change, manage, and edit planning as you move through the week.
Advanced Use (cross-school sharing)
Once you’ve implemented successful teacher-year-group-sharing, extend this to your entire school. In the same way you’ve seen the success from lesson planning, you could see your subject coordinators with their own large “class notebook” devoted to science. This way, they can keep curriculum changes up-to-date with resources they may find quickly put into the content library. By sharing this with all staff in the school, you can reducing the time (and cost) associated with printing lots of documents and posting them in pigeon holes, but you’re not going to miss anyone out from the information. A big added benefit here is being able to prove to Ofsted that you have a “whole school, consistent approach” when it comes to extensions, resources, and curriculum.
Super Use (all admin in OneNote)
Now, this idea could take some getting used to. If you’ve fully got to grips with the other uses of OneNote for staff above, it’s time to take the biggest dive. That being said, if you’ve got the hang of it, this will probably already be on your agenda.
It’s time to move all your admin-based needs into OneNote, and quickly improve efficiency and reduce staff workload. This can include areas such as staff handbooks, coordinator files, data monitoring and even Intervention Tracking. Just create a whole school “Class Notebook” and give each teacher/member of staff their own notebook. The content library allows you to share your handbooks, and each staff Notebook can have collaborators as they see fit. This means daily activities become more collaborative. As a result, morale improves and it’s a better environment for teaching and learning.

Please be aware that these are all suggestions for helping you to create a fun and efficient implementation of OneNote. You can, of course, use any number of ways in your own implementation. For more information and guides on using OneNote in schools, please visit the Interactive Guide area for teachers.

You can find out more about OneNote here, and don’t forget to contact us or make an enquiry about getting OneNote (or any other O365 cloud services) up and running in your school.

Stay tuned, as next week we will be looking at implementing OneNote in schools for students!

Craig Gerdes

Essentially, it is a digital notebook available anytime, anywhere. OneNote is available as a traditional desktop app, a web app, and a mobile app. In addition, a simplified OneNote version comes pre-installed with Windows 10. The features available to the user depend on the version and environment used.

There are many reasons. It is a very powerful program with lots of versatility.

You can create sections and pages just like a traditional notebook, then save and organize your typed or handwritten notes, and other stuff such as photos, files, links to websites, screen clippings, videos, etc.
- You can create further navigational structure by creating section groups or subpages and your own templates.
- You can search for items by text, tags, or author.
OneNote integrates easily with Microsoft Outlook and other Office products.
- You can email a message to OneNote or email notes captured in OneNote to others. Items assigned in OneNote appear as Tasks in Outlook.
- You can easily send Word and PowerPoint files to OneNote.
- You can take notes based on a Word document or PowerPoint presentation and link the notes to the original source file for reference.
You can share your notebooks with specific people through a direct email or to the world through a sharing link.
You can set permissions to view only or with editing privileges. You can password protect sections.
You can view recent edits and revert to a previous version if necessary.
You can do other cool things too.
- For example, you can ask Cortana or Siri to take notes for you.
- Another thing you can do is covert handwritten notes to text.
- Finally, you can take notes on a webpage and then save a screen clip with annotations to OneNote.

There are several ways to use OneNote at school, work, or home. For a great list of examples and ideas, check out:

10 Unique Ways to Use Microsoft OneNote

111 Ways to Use Microsoft OneNote

The screenshot below is an example of a class notebook that shares file attachments with students for download. In addition, the Quick Links section lists websites and articles relevant to class topics. The instructor uses his iPhone to send links to OneNote from LinkedIn and Twitter.

You can! You’ll need to sync your notebook with OneDrive before going offline, then OneNote automatically syncs your changes as you work. If at any time you lose your Internet connection or turn it off, any pending changes will sync as soon as you’re back online.

Using Onenote Productively For School

To start using OneNote, create a free Microsoft account or purchase a Microsoft Office 365 license. Go to https://products.office.com/en-US/onenote to sign-in or sign-up.