Hi, this is Mike Falson from the Microsoft education team. I'm
going to be presenting at this besty content session on what's
new in OneNote Edu. Now I work on the Microsoft education team.
I work a lot with OneNote. I've got my very special capon to
match my purple outfit, an as a bonus because it's a pandemic.
This is from Iceman, Tux mother. She made me this wonderful one,
not mask. Wow, check that out. I'm fully ready for my
presentation, but don't worry, I'll take this off while I'm
talking, so I'm going to be talking about all the latest
cool stuff that's been happening with the one note in education
Now before I get into the details just at a high level. In
this unprecedented time, schools universities, everyone needs
remote learning to meet their needs, and it could be remote
learning or hybrid learning or something in between. Everything
from the online infrastructure.
To communication tools like Microsoft Teams inclusive
access. So how can we make sure Accessibility inclusion are all
part of that equation and then use your readiness which is more
like training and professional development. And so this is
something that Microsoft Education is thinking about.
Holistic Lee across the board.
So we'll dive in and talk about what's new in OneNote Edu. The
first thing and maybe most important is that one note,
desktop one Note 2016 is not going away. We're going to be
launching an updated and refreshed version in winter of
2020, probably in January. Timeframe ISH and it's going to
start rolling out.
It will have new updates like Modern Sync will be bringing the
math assistant and all those tools from one at Windows 10
into OneNote Desktop. It'll get built in dictation. The
immersive reader will be built in class notebook tools and
later on OneNote Live captions will come. This will also be
part of the Office 2019 default installation for Office Pro and
will be updating and improving desktop. So we heard people loud
and clear and one note is not going away for the desktop
version. Coming back.
Another recent update. We added Adobe Spark video support. You
can now paste an Adobe Spark video right into one note, like
you see here and play it just like a video. Kind of like we
support YouTube embedded videos. You can now put in Adobe Spark
videos. You can also paste in Adobe Spark page is like you see
here that is just rolled out recently and we encourage you to
try that one out.
The other one that's recently rolled out is the immersive
reader for a form that is embedded in OneNote. What does
that mean? Well, if you have a Microsoft form and you paste a
link to it in one note, it will render that form. Here is an
example of a math problem in a Microsoft form. You can now
enable the immersive reader on that form that is embedded
inside of one note. This is an example of a practice math quiz
that features been around for quite a long time that is now
available as well. When you paste that quiz form in OneNote.
And it generates. You can turn on the immersive reader. This
makes math more inclusive. You can read your math out loud.
You can translate things into different languages with story
problems. Any type of form that you have, you can now
turn on the immersive reader, which is great for students.
As we talked about inclusive and equitable access.
Now this next feature I'm incredibly excited about. This
is another inclusive and accessible feature, and it's now
in private beta. In one note for the web, and it's in private
beta for OneNote, Windows 10 app. It's called OneNote live
captions. Well, what does that
mean? We have Microsoft Translator fused together with
one note. So why would you want to do that? Will imagine and
especially during remote learning or hybrid learning.
Yeah of students that are deaf and hard of hearing students
that don't speak in it. If language students that are
dyslexic or dysgraphic and get overwhelmed by information,
Microsoft Translator allows the edgecator to generate a join
code. This already exists. Translator is free on iPhones or
Android or the web.
As an educator, I can start a translator session and generate
a 5 digit code. Now imagine I gave that code to all my
students, either over teams or an email. Any student or parent
for that matter, can take that 5 digit code, and I'm going to
play this video. So imagine teacher Mike just generated a 5
digit code for all my little students in the audience. You
all got that code, so I'll hit play. So the student goes to the
View tab, they click live captions, a new feature, and
enters the join code and chooses
the language. So as professor or teacher Mike is talking, you can
see it's captioning over here on the right hand side I can take
notes as a student and I can pause the captions. So I paused
the captions. A student. I'm highlighting all these things. I
can make the text bigger. When I hit resume, all those captions
keep going, and because it's in OneNote, everything saved in the
transcripts folder on the left. So there's a section for
transcripts and look at this. Everything I was saying is
automatically captured in
transcripts. We support other languages. If I speak,
Japanese is a student. I can drop that captions language
and choose Japanese. And now as the teacher is talking all
those captions and transcripts come through in Japanese and
their automatically saved. This is unique. It's pretty
incredible an it's incredibly inclusive, so this is called
one Night Live captions. It's in beta right now. We hope to
ship it more broadly in spring of 2021, ultimately bringing
it to all OneNote platforms.
Also, we have the math assistant in OneNote for iPad. If you've
used math in OneNote, you know that it has the problem solving
capabilities. It has quiz. It has ink to math. It has the math
solver and it has the immersive reader. For all math. There's a
little button. We're bringing all of these math capabilities.
That the Web, an one for Windows 10, already have. We're bringing
those into iPad this spring, so stay tuned later. This spring
you're going to get a full all the OneNote math features coming
into iPads. For those schools that are using a lot of iPads,
maybe with younger students as
well. Now we're going to class notebook updates. I'm a big fan
of the one Note class notebook. It's even better when it's
inside of Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft Teams is their education here, offering you
have all your class assignments. Anna class notebook in teams.
So we've added some great updates in our class notebook
inside of teams recently. First off, when you're creating a new
assignment, you can create a new file. It used to be. You could
only create a new word, Excel or PowerPoint file when you were
making this new file button. Now you can create a new one Note
class notebook page at the same time you can create the page.
You can attach it to assignment. You can even fill out that page
and then distributed to all your students as an assignment so
that is fully rolled out.
We also have the ability to put assignments, distributing them
into a section group.
In this case I have an assignment that I've made in my
class notebook. Now in the OneNote standalone, you can have
nested section groups, so that might mean I've got Unit 1
section group. You know two section group and we've got
nested sections. You can see in this image here you've got week
one and then there are some sections in here. And then
there's week two. It used to be inside of teams. You could not
distribute a page into a nested section group. That's what we
call these here. Well, now you can just like in the standalone
class notebook. So we're really trying to bring all the parity
features into teams assignments. This is now rolled out an
available so you can distribute a page into a nested section
group. Here's a video of kind of what that looks like. I
need to go through and click create, fill out my
assignment, and add resources. I'll choose class notebook.
I'm going to make my assignment drill into the
content library. Here's my unit one and two readings.
There is in regular page, but I might say hey there is Unit
2, Unit 3 right there. You can expand those so that shows you
how to make that assignment in the nested section group.
Next step set the default channel in a teams class or
staff notebook. Well, what does that mean? We call this to
doctor David Kellerman feature, who's our favorite professor
from Australia. He really wanted this feature, so when you have a
class notebook, you have the collaboration space in the
content library, and when it's inside of teams, you can create
channels in teams. Some people like to create channels for
project groups, and when you create a channel, it creates a
notes section that's collaborative in that Channel so
everyone can access it in
collaboration. Doctor Kelemen wanted that to go into the
content library. He said I teach by units in each channel is a
unit that I want read only notes for all my students. I don't
want to to be collaborative, so I'm going to show a little video
that shows how you can take that collaboration, space or content
library channel and switch the
default. We've also made it easier to know when you create
channel notes like here where that lives. What we heard was,
hey, when you create those new note sections, it's not clear
that it's in the collaboration space and you can see now it
will tell you where it goes. I'm going to show the video here how
this all works, so I'm going to go to class notebook in teams
and click the manage notebooks and there's this setting set,
default location, collaboration space or content library. So
here it's for the collaboration space. I create a new channel
project Team Red. And there's a couple of channels here. When I
go into notes, it says start collaborating. This content
lives in the collaboration space, so this is how it shows
all inside the collaboration space for each channel. Now you
can see those three sections are created in the collaboration
space. Now will go and set the default to be the content
library. So now it's going to create new sections read only in
the content library instead. So now I'll create a few new
channels, Unit 1, Unit 2 and
Unit 3. And now when I go into notes, it says it goes to the
content library and when I open and expand this, you're going to
see that all these new sections 1, two and three live in the
content library instead. So it allows you to switch back and
forth, which is perfect for Doctor Kelemen, an probably
perfect for a lot of educators.
So those are the top updates for one note in education, but I do
have some great resources for
everyone. First off, I started a quick tips YouTube channel
designed for educators. Here's the link here. I encourage you
to go and subscribe to this channel because multiple times a
week I am putting really short and sweet 234 minute videos on
how to use different features. OneNote teams, immersive reader
inclusive and Accessible technology, PowerPoint, OneNote
and I even have a quick tips playlist specifically on one
note. So if you want to dive into math tools or what you can
embed into OneNote.
Or how to use a staff notebook or live captions or whatever it
might be. Those are some great tips right there for you.
There are also some resources here. There's a OneNote
education page on the Mac. I've got a nice OneNote Wakelet and I
also put some nice teams Edu Mac pages in here as well, and
there's a teams wakelet.
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rest of your besty. Bye bye.