Microsoft is announcing a new update for its OneNote Class Notebook as well as the Learning Tools. All of these updates have been made on account of the feedback that Microsoft received from the regular customers like teachers etc.
Class Notebook Tools for OneNote Online and the Windows 10 app
With this update, OneNote Class Notebook Tools are now available for OneNote Online and OneNote for Windows 10. This will further help teachers to work even more efficiently across the web and on their favourite Windows 10 device.
Class Notebook Tools for OneNote Online.
With the Class Notebook Tools for OneNote Online and OneNote for Windows 10, here is what you could achieve:
Distribute a page or section to your students—Rather than sending students to the Content Library to copy a page for themselves, teachers can distribute a page to all students in a class with just two clicks.
Review student work sequentially—Just like in the Class Notebook add-in for OneNote 2013 or 2016, teachers are provided with a list of all the pages they’ve distributed and a quick way to sequentially review work (homework, assignments, quizzes, etc.). Simply click a student’s name to navigate to the page in the student’s notebook.
The OneNote Online feature is rolling out soon through an update for the OneNote app for Windows 10 update for Office 365 Education customers, and you can download the OneNote Windows 10 app and enable the feature through settings in the Options menu.
For more details, visit the Getting Started guides for Class Notebook Tools for OneNote Online or Class Notebook Tools for OneNote for Windows 10.
Learning Tools updates
Learning Tools is now available in six new languages, as well as the ability to use dictation in more languages:
- The Learning Tools user interface is now localized in six new languages: Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Chinese (Simplified) and Chinese (Traditional).
- Support for three new dictation languages: Russian, Portuguese (Brazil) and Chinese.
In addition, the update to Learning Tools brings these enhancements:
- Now, when IT admins deploy Learning Tools, the Update button is only displayed on client machines that have rights to install updates.
- Implemented several bug fixes and performance improvements.
Sticker support
Stickers are available today in the OneNote Online app and will be available in the coming weeks for the OneNote Class Notebook add-in for desktop (2013 or 2016) and Windows 10 app.
New embeddable content
Last year, Microsoft added support for embeddable content on OneNote and today, they are adding a new set of partners to embed content onto the OneNote canvas which include the likes:
To view all of the supported embed content, you can visit this public OneNote notebook.
Quizlet support in OneNote.
Geogebra support in OneNote Online.
OneNote Class Notebook and LMS updates
We recently announced these updates to OneNote Class Notebook:
- Read/Unread support for page distributions and assignments in the Class Notebook add-in for OneNote.
- New LMS’s supported in the Class Notebook add-in for OneNote.
In addition, we are about to launch new assignment and grade support for the Skooler LMS in the next update of the Class Notebook add-in for OneNote desktop. You can learn more at our Education Partner page. We plan to continually improve these tools and deliver on top requests in 2017, just as we did in 2016. Check out the 2016 recap for OneNote.
