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Teacher only space
- Jul 30, 2017
Some good news! The ability to enable the Teacher-Only section group and to lock the Collaboration space for notebooks created with Teams is now available from the Office 365 tiles> ClassNotebook> ManageNotebooks
Previously, notebooks created with Teams did not appear in the list. Now they do, with the message "This notebook was created in Microsoft Teams..." . I've tested it and it works. See below:
Have you heard any more on the completion of teams date? This is so frustrating as I am trying to set things up for next year. I read somewhere it would be last week but still no sign although it was featured on the teams for edu training!
- John GoodhindJul 18, 2017Iron Contributor
Agreed- very annoying. Workarounds are all very well for those of us who can find them, but teachers don't want work arounds- we want things that work properly, and much of what we are using doesn't, I'm sorry to say (and that includes ordinary class notebooks, outside of Teams). I don't mean to be negative here, as the whole Class Notebook architecture is a wonder of software engineering, but the fact remains that the amount of teaching time taken up with glitches (be they sync issues or confusion between apps etc) is worrying. The list of things that teachers and students must and mustn't do (to avoid problems) grows by the day. It is clear that training for teachers and students in the effective use of classnotebooks alone, never mind Teams/Groups is vital early on. As I've said before, If Teams isn't fully ready to go before the end of term 3, it will be too late for 2018.
- Marius PretoriusJul 30, 2017Iron Contributor
Some good news! The ability to enable the Teacher-Only section group and to lock the Collaboration space for notebooks created with Teams is now available from the Office 365 tiles> ClassNotebook> ManageNotebooks
Previously, notebooks created with Teams did not appear in the list. Now they do, with the message "This notebook was created in Microsoft Teams..." . I've tested it and it works. See below:
- Luke StrawserAug 17, 2017Copper Contributor
I still seem to be having trouble seeing my Teams-created notebooks under ClassNotebook>ManageNotebooks. Any insight into why this might be or how I could remedy this?
- Marius PretoriusJul 18, 2017Iron ContributorI've resorted to, for now at least, a Teacher Only Team in conjunction with a Class Team. This gives more functionality than just the OneNote Teacher' section. I can also share that Team with other teachers, but it becomes mainly a private space - an oxymoron, I know, in collaboration software. Just trying it out. I'm not sure what my preference would be if a OneNote Class Notebook Teacher Only section would be available.
- Grant SaulJul 19, 2017Brass Contributor
I too viewed the option to manage the class notebook through view teams > Settings. This does not look like it has been added in to the Class team.
It looks like instead, all class notebooks, whether in onedrive, classroom or teams, are managed through the Office365 Waffle > Class notebooks. OR https://www.onenote.com/classnotebook/notebook-links
I can see some sense in this in that if you have mutliple classes, or external links for parents are created, these are all done from the same location. rather than from each class team