Adding OneNote Class Notebook to your Brightspace Course

Introduction:

OneNote Class Notebook is an external learning tool that allows for collaboration and sharing of materials and assignments through OneNote. Once OneNote Class Notebook has been added to a class and set up with sections, instructors can add students to the class to provide readings and handouts, assign activities, review student work, and facilitate asynchronous collaboration between students. OneNote Class Notebook can be accessed online or through Microsoft Office.

Adding OneNote Class Notebook to your Course:

  1. 1. Go to the course to which to add OneNote Class Notebook and select Content from the course navigation bar.
  2. 2. Navigate to the module to which to add the Class Notebook.
  3. 3. Select Add Existing.
  5. 4. Select External Tool Activity.
  7. 5. Select Microsoft Education.
  8. Select the Microsoft Education tool
  9. 6. A link will be created within the module.
  10. 7. Select the newly created Microsoft Education activity to launch the Microsoft 365 integration.

Setup OneNote Class Notebook:

The process for setting up OneNote Class Notebook involves creating sections, populating content, and adding students. 

  1. 1. Select the Microsoft Education link.
  2. 2. You might be prompted to define which Office 365 apps you want to enable in your course. By default, OneDrive and Class Notebook are the apps that are enabled; you can select at this point if you want to leave the default settings.
  3. 3. Click on Class Notebook to configure your notebook.
  4. Select the Class Notebook tool
  5. 4. Click on Set up OneNote Class Notebook. Select a blank notebook, or use an existing one if you already have one.
  6. Select Set up OneNote Class Notebook
  7. 5. Follow the setup wizard to configure your notebook.
  8. 6.Review the sections that will be created for each student's private notebook. You can modify the sections based on how you plan to use OneNote in your course.
  9. 7. Select Create when you are satisfied with the configuration.
  10. 8. After the notebook has been created, select Open Notebook to open it in OneNote for the web.
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How Are Students Added?

You do not need to manually add students to a Class Notebook created through the Microsoft Education integration.

Students enrolled in the Brightspace course are automatically associated with the Class Notebook as they access it through the Microsoft 365 LTI integration. Educators are similarly recognized as co-teachers based on the LMS course roster.

For this reason, enrollment changes should be managed through the Brightspace course roster, rather than by manually adding or removing students from the Class Notebook.

Add Materials to OneNote Class Notebook:

Materials like readings, graphs, handouts, and homework assignments can be created and distributed within OneNote Class Notebook. Instructors can create new pages within the notebook or insert previously-created materials.

  1. 1. From the course homepage in OneNote, select Content Library [A].
  2. 2. Select the tab under the heading [B].
  3. 3. Select Add Page.
  4. 4. On the blank page that opens, enter a title for the page above the date. 
  5. 5. Enter the content of the page. Questions can be typed directly onto the page, copied and pasted from an outside document, or inserted. Images can also be inserted. (See the OneNote documentation for more details about populating content.)
  6. Follow steps 1 to 5
  7. 6. When finished creating the page, select Class Notebook from the top navigation bar.
  8. 7. Select Distribute Page.
  9. 8. A dropdown menu will appear:
  • Select Distribute Page to distribute the page to all students.
  • Select Individual Distribution to distribute the page to select student(s).
  • Select Group Distribution to distribute page to separate groups.

Follow steps 6 to 8

  1. 9. From the sidebar that appears, select the section of the notebook to which the page should be distributed.
  2. 10. Select Distribute.
  3. Distribute Pahe. Follow steps 9 and 10

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