Mike: Hi, Mike Reading here from www.usingtechnologybetter.com.
In today’s video, I want to show teachers how they can use the OneNote Class Notebook
Creator to create class notebooks in OneNote and then easily share them with their students.
Now teachers and students have been using OneNote to collect and organize information
but now it becomes really easy to create class notebooks and then share them with your students.
What we need to do is just click on the settings tab in the top right hand corner of your screen
once you’ve logged into OneDrive and then click on site content.
Now you’ll notice here that the OneNote Class Notebook creator app is just here on
the page and so we need to just load that.
If your administrator hasn’t loaded this onto your domain yet and you need some help
in knowing the best way to do that, then you can just watch the video, which is linked
just below this video to see how you could add this for your domain.
So once the OneNote Class Notebook Creator app has been launched, we’ll see that the
next lot of options we have is to create a notebook.
So from here what we do is we click on create a class notebook and this is going to be the
first one that we’ve created so I am just going to create a notebook called Demo Class
and then click next.
From here you will see that you have an overview of what your notebook will look like.
And so you’ve got three different spaces for you and your students to interact.
The first space is a collaboration space.
So this space is where your students and your teachers can work together and you can see
there that the teacher can edit the content and so can the students.
Now, if you want to call this something other than collaboration space, then just simply
click on the rename link just here and you can name it whatever you like.
You’ll see that the next one down is a content library and this is basically a place for
you as a teacher to add your content but the students can only view it.
And then you’ve got individual notebooks.
So as a teacher, you can create a notebook for each one of your students and they’ll
all show up on the same screen.
Your students can't see each other’s notebooks or collaborate or interact with those other
notebooks but as a teacher, you actually have edit access to that whole stack of notebooks
there.
Once you’ve gone through and renamed those, the next step that we want to do is just add
our students.
Now, if you’ve got a list of students, you can just simply type their names or their
email addresses and just as you would normally expect, if you just start to type your student’s
names here, if you’ve got them in your contacts, then they will show up.
So once you typed in the students that you would like to add, then we just simply click
next and it’s going to create some space for us.
Now originally what we’ve got here is handouts and class notes, homework and quizzes.
If you would like to change those, you can simply just untick each of these boxes and
then add the ones that you would like to add.
So it’s completely customizable by you, as a teacher.
So once we’ve done that, we just simply click next, and it’s going to give us a
preview of what that would look like.
So here’s the teacher’s notebook where you’ve got our class name at the top and
then we have our collaboration space, our content library and then you can see underneath
here that there are two of my students who are sitting there.
Now, what I can also do here is have a look at what the student’s notebook would look
like and so for instance, the student has their collaboration space, their content library
and then they’ve got their own notebook, which has the three or four sections, which
are customisable by you as a teacher.
Once we’ve done that, we just go into click on create and then that’s going to go away
and create our workbooks for us.
All right, fantastic.
So it’s all done and created.
Once we’ve gone through that process, you will notice that there is a box here that
has a link to where this OneNote sits.
You’re going to need to give that to your students.
So if that was me, what I would do is I would take that and I would run it through bit.ly
and create a unique URL, a short URL, for your students, to be able to type in or just
be able to click on an email.
Once you’ve done that, that’s as simple as being able to enter in this URL address
here and then access the OneNote.
So once you’ve got your class notebook organised, if you ever want to add more students, you
just simply click on the add new students, choose the notebook that you would like to
enter and then just continue to add your students names in there.
You could also from this home screen just here, also view all your existing notebooks
that you’ve created and shared with students and they’ll all just show up here in the
list.
If you have any questions, just simply leave a question or a comment in the comment section
below this video and we can continue the conversation there.
If you’d like more helpful tips on how you could use technology better, then just head
over to www.usingtechnologybetter.com where you’ll find lots of how to tips and tricks
as well as lots of videos on how you can use technology better with your students.