OneNote makes it easy to have a paperless classroom, with all the benefits of saving time in the process. The workflow from assigning work, students working then giving feedback can all happen seamlessly in OneNote.To insert assignment details into OneNote we can always work in the app BUT many teachers have already created the work in Word.
You can insert a Word document as a file or a file printout - in both cases the students can't work on the work within OneNote.
Here is the workflow:
- Teacher uploads a Word document as a file
- Students download the file
- Students open the file in Word and complete the assignment
- Students upload the file on the same page in OneNote
- Teacher goes to each page (this takes three clicks to go back, find the student, find the section, find the file)
- Teacher opens the Word document
- Teacher gives feedback
- Teacher saves the document
- Teacher inserts that document back on the page so student can see the feedback
- Student opens document in Word to see feedback
Phew!
There is a better way.
Copying and pasting the text and pictures/tables from Word and pasting into OneNote directly gives a canvas upon which each student can work.
If this was a diagram to be labelled, an equation to be balanced, a poem to write, a piece of music to compose, a flower to draw, it would all be done on the page in OneNote. As the work saves automatically nobody will lose their work. That is important!
The video below shows the process:
Using the Class Notebook add-in, teachers can push pages out to students and review student work with ease so the workflow becomes:
- Teacher copies and pastes the assignment from Word into OneNote
- Teacher pushes that page to students
- Students work on the page and complete the assignment
- Teacher opens each page using review student work and leaves feedback
- Students view feedback from the same page
I think we just bought ourselves some time!