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OneNote now supports interactive embed integration with PhET simulations and Coggle.It mind maps

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MikeTholfsen
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Oct 03, 2019

As we continue listening to students and educators, we have heard many requests for OneNote integration with two popular apps

1) PhET - the popular interactive STEM simulations created by the University of Colorado Boulder

2) Coggle.it. - the clear way to share complex information, including mind mapping and flow charts

 

Educators and students around the world use these apps to create interactive learning resources and digital materials for their classroom, and now they can be embedded directly into OneNote! 

 

Both the PhET team and OneNote teams have been hearing these integration requests more often.  The OneNote binder metaphor, and the ability to easily embed PhET or Coggle.it interactive pages in OneNote, organize them, or distribute to others in OneNote Class Notebook, seemed like a great match.  

 

As of today, you can now paste any public PhET link or Coogle.it link on to a OneNote page and it will render it as a live interactive embed.  A great way to make learning more interactive. 

 

To see some examples or how easy this is to do, see the example video of a PhET interactive simulation embedded and being used in OneNote.  

 

 

Here is an example of a Coggle.it mindmap embedded in OneNote

 

We hope you enjoy this new integration to bring together two great apps that students and educators love!

 

Mike Tholfsen
Microsoft Education Product Manager
@mtholfsen

Updated Oct 03, 2019
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14 Comments

  • What link are you using for the embed?  And what version of OneNote are you pasting into?

  • spanishimp's avatar
    spanishimp
    Copper Contributor

    Love the idea. Coggle is working fine for me but I'm having problems with embedding the phet simulation. It justs comes up as a normal web link

  • Kamlesh Kumar's avatar
    Kamlesh Kumar
    Bronze Contributor

    hey MikeTholfsen, this is really awesome. I used OneNote very frequently and i really loved this blog post. I probably use this in my some sessions. Thanks for sharing this informative post. 

  • edenalencar's avatar
    edenalencar
    Brass Contributor

    Nice! I'm not user this feature, but it's really good to know that OneNote has remained more useful.