- Hey there, my name is Megan Townes,
I am the Microsoft Learning Consultant
for the education team here in Australia.
And today I'm gonna be talking to you
about how the OneNote Class Notebook experience
is integrated into Microsoft Teams.
So whenever I'm talking about OneNote
I must wear my handy-dandy OneNote cape
because it is the best tool in Microsoft Office 365.
So now I'm ready.
We are going to look at how we can first of all
set up a Class Notebook,
and then some of the things that you can add
to the OneNote Notebook as well.
So let's jump in and have a look at how we do that.
In Microsoft Teams when you setup a class team
you are given a tab in the general channel
called Class Notebook.
So when you click on that you will
see setup Class Notebook.
So you've gotta setup the Class Notebook
for each team that you create.
So when you click on that for anyone
that's ever used the OneNote Class Notebook creator
in normal 365, you'll see that this is
very similar to that wizard experience.
So it's going to setup a collaboration space,
a content library, and the student notebooks.
And all you need to do is click next on that screen.
And then this particular page asks you
to setup the sections that will
appear in each student notebook.
You setup the collaboration and content
sections after the initial notebook creation.
This is very much what will students
see when they open their notebook.
So you give em four options.
I personally prefer to change that.
And I say things like my course,
okay if I'm setting this up for
potentially a high school class.
And then I might say my poetry,
if it's you know, the first unit of work.
And then I'll close that.
And then we'll create playground.
I like to give kids a playground in their notebook.
Just so they can do, you know,
whatever they want without messing up
my sections that I've given them.
So once you've decided on those sections
you can click create.
Just like in the normal Class Notebook experience
you can add sections for all students
later on as well through the Class Notebook Tool.
So when you're ready,
triple check that spelling, and then click create.
It will setup that notebook.
So it can take a few minutes to set that up.
So it's not something you do
just prior to class beginning.
You'd do that, a decent amount of time before class started.
So I'm gonna let that run it's race,
and jump into another team,
so I can show you that OneNote Class Notebook experience.
Once your notebook has gone through that setup process
you will then see it appear underneath
the Class Notebook tab in your general channel.
So you can click on the little arrow
in the top left hand corner there to expand it
and see all the group sections within your notebook.
So your collaboration space, when you click on that,
you'll be able to see the normal
using the collaboration space that everybody gets
with their Class Notebooks.
But you can then start to setup your own sections as well.
I like to give the class a section called our playground.
That allows students to, to do whatever they want in,
in that collaborative section,
and keep it away from all the classwork you might be doing.
And then maybe we're going to do another one
called our group work.
Okay it's up to you the sections that
you create in your notebook.
And that can all be done, like I said,
within that Teams interface.
One of the cool things about Teams,
and the OneNote Notebook integration
is if I jump into my other channel here
that is called poetry,
there is a tab within that channel, called notes.
And what that does is actually connects
to the OneNote Class Notebook.
So this will appear in the collaboration section.
And it'll automatically call itself poetry.
And anything your students do in here is collaborative.
So they can work together on anything to do with poetry
directly through that notes tab.
So you can see that that's the section there.
And we might call this task one.
And if I expand that we can add
more pages to this poetry notes section
for students to work together.
So it's lovely integration with the channels
and the collaboration section in your OneNote Notebook.
So you can also setup your content library
in your Class Notebook as well.
You just need to make sure you jump into the general tab,
and under Class Notebook click on the content library.
And you can then add a new section.
So in this case I'm just going
to call it content poetry.
And that's a place where you can add
any content you like to the notebook
in regards to that particular unit or project.
And students can see it, but they can't edit it
in any way so you can add as many
sections as you like in the content library.
And then you have, underneath your content library,
each of your student notebook sections.
So when you setup that initial notebook
you added, or I added, my playground,
my poetry, and my course.
And that's where you can add more student sections
as the year goes on and obviously it's where
students are adding work and you can
mark that or give them more work as the year transpires.
So that's the basic setup of a
Class Notebook within Teams.
What we're going to do now is answer
some questions that have come through Twitter,
from teachers around Australia.
And hopefully elaborate more on how
you can use OneNote Notebook in Teams.
Question comes via Steve Crapnell
from All Hallows' School in Queensland.
And he asks, is there learning tool support
in OneNote, within Teams.
And the short answer to that is yes.
And the long answer I will show you
exactly how to access that.
So when you're in your Class Notebook
or when students are in their Class Notebook in Teams
they can navigate to any page.
Doesn't matter whether it's in the collaboration section,
the content section, or their student notebook sections.
And once they're looking at some content
and they'd like to get some help with reading that content,
if they click on the view tab up inside that interface,
they'll be able to select immersive reader.
So immersive reader provides you with
lots of different options for reading that text.
So the great big play button down at the bottom
can be pressed and the text can be read back to the student.
- [Reader] The first federal elections
for the new Parliament which consisted of
36 senators and 75 members of the--
- All right so great simple way
for students to get that assistance with reading.
And then the immersive readers tools
that you may already be familiar with
are still up in the top right hand corner.
So under the double As that's where
we can increase and decrease text size
for students who might be visually impaired.
You can increase or decrease the spacing
of the lines, characters, and words.
Which is helpful for dyslexic and dysgraphic students.
You can switch between Serif or Sans Serif font.
And finally you can change the color contrast
depending on the visual needs of a particular student.
Or again for dyslexic and dysgraphic students.
Different color contrasts will help them with reading.
And then the second icon is a tool that's
helpful for all students in the editing process.
So students will be able to click syllables
to see the different syllables within each word.
And they can also click nouns, verbs, and adjectives,
to be able to see those particular
types of words in the text that they've
either written themselves,
or text that's been provided to them by
their teacher within the OneNote Notebook.
So fabulous little tool that already
exists in OneNote 2016.
But it's now embedded into the Teams experience as well,
because it uses OneNote Online.
So don't forget if you need to access learning tools
or immersive reader, you can just click on the view tab,
and select that third icon and you'll be in
and using the immersive reader.
So thank you Steve for that question.
The next question comes from Margaret Simkin.
And she's from the
Hamilton and Alexandra College in Victoria.
And she asks can you open a OneNote Class Notebook
from Teams in the OneNote app,
in Windows 10 or in OneNote 2016, on a PC or Mac.
And the answer to that one is also yes.
So it's exactly the same as using OneNote Online
when you're using OneNote within Teams.
So if you in your class notebook,
in the general channel,
when you click onto that particular tab,
you'll see the words open in OneNote.
So depending on which OneNote software
you have set as default on your computer,
that will open up in the Windows 10 app,
or it will open up in OneNote 2016.
And if you're on an iPad or a Mac,
when you click on open in OneNote
it'll just open up in the OneNote software for you.
So nice easy one to answer there Margaret.
Just click on open in OneNote and you'll
be off and away and using that exact same notebook
in the software that you know and love.
So our final question comes from,
Christopher Sanders at Trinity College in South Australia.
And he asks, can you embed media content into OneNote.
So in OneNote 2016 and OneNote Online,
you have been able to embed a range of different content.
And the same goes for the Teams experience.
So when you're working in your Class Notebook
whether it's in the contents section,
or the collaboration space, it's really up to you.
When you want to add any embedded content from the web
so ...
All you need to do is grab
the URL for that embedded content.
So I'm going to pop over to YouTube
and grab the URL for a video.
So I just copy that.
And then head back into my team.
And what I will find, is that when I paste that content
into a OneNote page and then hit enter,
it automatically embeds below that hyperlink.
And the same goes for your 365 content as well.
You can embed Forms, you can embed Sway,
and you can embed Microsoft Stream
into your OneNote Notebook.
So here is a link for Sway,
when I copy that, and paste it into my
Class Notebook that lives inside of Teams.
Again once you paste the link in and hit enter
that Sway will embed below the hyperlink.
So really easy way to embed content
from all around the net into your Class Notebook experience.
Thank you for all those questions
that have come in via Twitter,
around using the Class Notebook within Teams.
I think there is a bit of a change in direction
for some teachers who might've been
using Class Notebook for sometime,
when you're using it with Teams as well.
A lot of the conversation that you might've
been having in the collaboration section in your notebook
is now probably going to happen in Teams instead.
So I think the Class Notebook within Teams
is very much for you and your class
to be, you know, taking notes,
to be working on little projects together.
And for students obviously to be using
their own sections just like they've
used their traditional notebooks for some time.
So I think there'll be a nice balance
between how you might work with Class Notebook
and how you might work with some of
the conversational features in Teams.
Finally to wrap it all up,
I think the biggest benefit of using
Class Notebook in Teams is that the notebook itself
lives within the team at what's called a tenant level.
So a lot of teachers have reported before
that when they create a Class Notebook in 365,
it lives in their One Drive,
and if they were to change schools
halfway through the year or perhaps go on leave,
it's really, you know, quite a cumbersome process
to change the ownership of a Class Notebook.
Whereas when your Class Notebook lives in Teams,
all you need to do is change the ownership
of the team and then the ownership
of the notebook easily changes as well.
So I hope you have fun using Class Notebook within Teams.
And again don't forget that you can always
access the Microsoft Educator Community
at education.microsoft.com,
to learn more about not only using Teams,
but also using Class Notebook in your classroom.
Have fun!