- [Instructor] I'm gonna show you how to organize
your course into a classroom team
to help your students do the best they can.
(upbeat music)
Well, we're off to a great start here.
We've got our team here for ENG101,
Engineering Mechanics here at Contoso University
and we've got all of our students
added to the team already.
It's a great start!
Well, I'm gonna jump into the Files tab
because the first thing we need to do
is get some materials in here.
There's a special folder called Class Materials
and the materials we put in here students can access,
but they can't muck around with them.
So let's jump over to our folder of lectures.
Now, we have to make a decision at this point.
How are we gonna structure our course?
There are four basic approaches.
We can create weekly channels, topic-based channels,
channels for each activity,
or we can do group-based channels
and use private channels, for example.
Well, I'm gonna focus in on weekly channels.
I think it's best practice
because we get lots of material created on a weekly cadence,
and students know when and where to find what they need.
The best way of all is if we can compartmentalize
every one of our topics into a week.
So you can see here, I've got my PowerPoint decks
for week one, topic one, Force and Moment and so on.
And I've created a PDF of each of them.
I'm just gonna drag and drop them
and throw them over here into the Files section.
They're uploading here right now.
Now I'm gonna jump back over here
to the General channel.
Well, this is where we're gonna do
all sorts of administrative stuff and general discussion.
But I've got this week one, topic one,
so I'm gonna create a new channel for it.
Let's come up with a standard here.
Week 01 if you're gonna have 10 or more,
because we want these to arrange alphabetically.
Now I'm just gonna go with Week 1 Force and Moment.
The name of this channel is exactly the same as my PDF,
and I'm gonna automatically show this
for every one of my students.
Let's add that channel.
Now it's just creating and we don't have anything here.
So the first thing maybe that I'll do
is before I jump into that,
is I'm gonna start with the Class Notebook.
Because now that I've got a channel here,
when I create my Class Notebook
from a blank notebook, it too is going to create sections
that match with each of them.
There are some suggestions here.
I'm not gonna use handouts,
and I'm at a university,
so I'm gonna change this to Lecture Notes.
Homework is gonna become Tutorials,
and Quizzes might become Lab work.
Okay, let's create that.
So the Class Notebook is getting ready
in the background, which is fantastic.
While that's working, I'm gonna go back
to week one and I'm gonna add a tab.
I might put in a PDF here.
Well, I need to find a PDF.
I'm gonna go up to the General channel here,
and here is my Class Materials folder,
and here are all of the files
that I uploaded just before.
Here's my Week one PDF.
I'm gonna name it W1 Slides.
It's a nice compact name,
and we know exactly what we're looking for here.
Okay, so here it is.
Now I've got my week one slides for ENG101
on Force and Moment, and my channel is called
Week 1 Force and Moment.
Let's tap here.
OneNote Class Notebook has automatically created
a Notes tab in every channel
and this channel, Week 1 Force and Moment
is gonna create a section inside the class notebook.
I'm gonna call this week one example one.
And if I jump over here to my PowerPoint slides
that I've uploaded, I'm going to work through this example
during the lecture.
I'm gonna go control + A copy, grab this,
and jump over to the class notebook,
and I'm gonna paste it right in here.
This is gonna give me a bit of a blank canvas
that I can work on as a virtual blackboard
during the lecture.
And I can ink in here with the drawing tools,
I can type, and I can basically use this
as a shared blackboard.
Now if we go back over to the General channel here,
what you're gonna see here is that there is a section
created automatically for each channel
that matches to each week.
I'm gonna open it up with the caret key
and we've got the Collaboration Space,
week one, week one example one, and there's our example
from the lecture.
I can even right click on this,
go copy a link to the page, jump over to my lecture,
paste it in, and then during the lecture
I'll be able to just tap this target
and go straight to the notebook.
So I'm almost ready here for the start of a semester.
And all that's left for me to do
is to go back into my week one channel,
post a new announcement, and I'm gonna write in here
Week 1 Force and Moment.
We'll add a little subheading here
and I'm gonna say, hello at ENG students,
welcome to week one.
I'm gonna set that as high priority.
I wanna make sure everyone sees it.
And I'm gonna hit post.
So that's it for week one and what we're gonna do
is we're gonna make a new one of these channels
for every week and have the material
slowly appear for the students throughout semester.
I've shown you how to organize your course
into a classroom team based on weekly channels
so that it's easy for your students
to find the material they need to do their best.