Learning Zone spotlight: Ace your note-taking skills

A monthly spotlight from the Learning Zone collection, featuring ready-to-use lessons that bring timely classroom topics and practical learning skills into your teaching.

Strengthen habits that make learning last

By this time of the semester, the early energy of a new term has settled, content is getting denser, and assessments are already visible on the horizon. It is a good moment to ask a simple question:

Are your students’ notes helping them, or just filling pages?

Research on memory suggests that without revisiting material, much of it fades within days. Small shifts in structure and review habits can make a real difference over time.

Ace your note-taking skills in Microsoft Learning Zone gives you a focused, interactive way to address this in class. In one session, students explore practical, research-informed strategies for organizing notes, reviewing within 24 hours, and using simple systems such as structured layouts and annotation. The lesson includes short self-practice activities and connects directly to the way they are already working.

Assign the lesson in Learning Zone and give your students tools they can use for the rest of the year.

This lesson is part of a curated library of ready-to-use interactive lessons in Microsoft Learning Zone - a free Windows app that allows educators to easily create and deliver interactive classroom experiences.