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 Existing Activities.
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5. 4. Select External Learning Tools.
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7. 5. Select OneNote Class Notebook.
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9. 6. A link will be created within the module.

Setup OneNote Class Notebook:

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

1. 1. Select the OneNote Class Notebook link.
2. 2. If a login screen appears, select Sign in to OneNote and log in using UTRGV credentials.
3. 3. A screen will open with the name of the course populated in a text box. Edit the name of the course or select Next.
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5. 4. The next screen will show three sections for the Class Notebook:

• Collaboration Space: This is where students and teachers can work together
• Content Library: This section is for instructors to post materials
• Student Notebooks: This section is what students use individually.

1. 5.After reviewing these sections, select Next.
2. 6. (Optional) Add a permissions for a teaching assistant by entering an email address when prompted. Select Next once the email is entered or to skip this screen.
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4. 7. (Optional) One way to add students to the Class Notebook is the setting “Automatically add students from your LMS as they access this notebook”. If this option is selected,  students will be added to the Class Notebook as they access it.
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6. Note: If students should be populated in the Class Notebook prior to accessing it (for example, if using pre-formed groups), students should be added manually. See Adding Students to a OneNote Class Notebook for instructions.
7. 8. Select Next.
8. 9. Use the next screen to customize what students will have in their individual notebooks. Select + Add Section to add to the notebook or select the x next to a section to delete it.
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10. 10. Once finished customizing, select Next.
11. 11. A page will open with previews of the Teacher’s notebook and Student’s notebook. Review these and select Create.
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13. 12. A processing screen will appear. Once the Class Notebook has been created, a page will appear with links to open the Notebook and to share with students.

Add Students to OneNote Class Notebook:

If students should be added to the Class Notebook before they access it (e.g. for group work), they will need to be added manually. 

1. 1. Select the OneNote Class Notebook link.
2. 2. Select Add or remove students.
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4. 3. Search for a student or enter a UTRGV email in the "Add new students" text box.
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6. 4. Once found, select the student.
7. 5. Continue adding students. When finished, select Next.
8. 6. A confirmation screen will open. Select Update.
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10. 7. Students will receive an email from "Sharepoint App" with a link to access 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.)
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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.

1. 9. From the sidebar that appears, select the section of the notebook to which the page should be distributed.
2. 10. Select Distribute.
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Support:

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