With summer on the way in the northern hemisphere and the school year ending in many places, it is time to get ready for summer. As many students and teachers head into summer break (or to ISTE 2018 Chicago!), we wanted to share some new OneNote Class Notebook capabilities we’ve been working on.
Teacher Transfer of OneNote Class or Staff Notebooks
A common scenario and UserVoice request we hear about is when a teacher of staff member leaves the school during the middle of the year, the Class or Staff notebook needs to be transferred. We have had a programmatic way to do this, but the feedback has been to make a nicer user interface to allow IT Admins to easily transfer the notebook, contents, and permissions to another educator or staff member.
Today we are beginning to roll out this capability for IT Admins. Transferring a Class or Staff notebook from a Teacher OneDrive is now as easy as:
After clicking Transfer, what happens is:
Class/Staff Notebook transfer example
Capita SIMS Integration for assignments and grades
With today’s OneNote Class Notebook add-in update, we are rolling out assignment and grade integration for the most popular Student Information System in the United Kingdom, Capita SIMS. To see the full list of committed education partners, please visit our OneNote Education Partners page.
If you use the Class Notebook add-in, version 2.6.0.0 will include:
For details on how to attach your OneNote Class Notebook to Capita SIMS, watch this new video:
Parent Access for Class Notebooks created in Microsoft Teams
Since releasing read-only parent or guardian access and Collaboration Space permissions for OneNote Class Notebooks in April of 2017 we’ve had many requests to enable these same capabilities for Class Notebooks created in Microsoft Teams for Education.
While we are still working to bring these experiences directly into Teams for Education “Manage Notebook” Settings, today we have rolled out the near-term ability to enable both of these capabilities through the stand-alone OneNote Class Notebook app, which will allow Teachers to still experience all of the same capabilities for Class Notebooks inside of Teams. We anticipate bringing these experiences natively into the Teams for EDU settings sometime in fall of 2018.
Here are the steps to get started today!
Teachers can quickly and easily generate read-only links to both the Content Library and individual student notebooks. A parent or guardian can allow the recipient to open OneNote on the web and view their student’s notebook. The teacher can also easily remove these notebook links if desired. This new capability is located under the Manage Notebooks area of the Class Notebook. To try the new parent and guardian features, a school simply needs to have guest access enabled for their Office 365 Groups.
Parent Access in Class Notebooks
New Sticker Packs!
This month’s theme is all about oceans, and we have 4 new fun stickers packs rolling out today. Some examples are shown below”
Ocean's themed sticker packs
As usual, please share any feedback you have directly to us on Twitter at @OneNoteEDU, or file any help or support requests at http://aka.ms/edusupport
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