{"id":113101,"date":"2015-02-24T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/?p=113101"},"modified":"2022-07-20T07:47:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T14:47:11","slug":"classroom-school-introducing-onenote-staff-notebook-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2015\/02\/24\/classroom-school-introducing-onenote-staff-notebook-education\/","title":{"rendered":"From classroom to school\u2013introducing OneNote Staff Notebook for education"},"content":{"rendered":"

A lot has changed since the beginning of this school year for schools and districts using OneNote. The release of OneNote Class Notebooks has customers like Kirk Wheeler, Head of School at St. Thomas School, saying it has brought about, \u201cThe most significant and organic\u00a0change process ever in the school. Seamless and keeps up with teachers.\u201d<\/p>\n

We received feedback from educators about how to make OneNote Class Notebook better for their teaching. We incorporated it almost immediately into the tool, making it available in new languages and markets worldwide and providing training resources and example lesson plans educators needed to get started with OneNote in their classrooms with OneNoteForTeachers.com<\/a> and Bing in the Classroom lesson plans in OneNote. The excitement for OneNote Class Notebooks has been amazing and we are seeing quite the momentum since launch in October 2014. Teachers have created three times as many OneNote Class Notebooks on Office 365 in the last month than the previous months combined since launch\u2014resulting in more than triple the number of students using OneNote in their classrooms this semester.<\/p>\n

Taking OneNote notebooks to the school<\/h3>\n

In our efforts to reach educators with OneNote Class Notebooks, we have spoken with many school or district leaders (e.g. principals, superintendents, department heads) who see the value of similar organization and collaboration tools for their own administrative needs:<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a school leader my work is dynamic and varied. OneNote provides the place to bring everything together and helps me focus and prioritize when things are really busy.\u201d \u2014<\/em>Amanda Prosser, assistant principal at the Silverton Primary School in Australia<\/p>\n

That is why, today, we are excited to announce the release of OneNote Staff Notebook for Education to cultivate and manage educator collaboration at the district and school level. Now, an entire school or district can enjoy the benefits of OneNote\u2019s organizational efficiency:<\/p>\n

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Click the image to download it. Save and share this image with your colleagues with the #OneNoteStaff and #OneNoteClass<\/i><\/p>\n

Customers are already seeing the potential to build on their use of OneNote with this new tool:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Manteca Unified School District, our leadership team meetings are held primarily using OneNote as the platform\u2026Our site administration and staff will embrace the Staff Notebooks for Education due to the myriad of opportunities it will present for collaboration, management, and content areas exclusively meant for them.\u201d<\/em> \u2014Jason Messer, superintendent for the Manteca Unified School District in California<\/p>\n

OneNote Staff Notebook, like OneNote Class Notebook, is an app for Office 365 that lets an education staff leader quickly set up a personal workspace for every staff member or teacher, a content library for shared information and a collaboration space for everyone to collaborate\u2014all within one powerful notebook. With a Staff Notebook, administration and staff can save time, become more organized and collaborate more effectively.\u00a0 Because OneNote is free and on every platform and every device, you can access your Staff Notebook from anywhere.\u00a0 Staff leaders might include a principal, superintendent, head of school, administrator, faculty head, department head, or a leader of a professional learning community (PLC). If you fall into these roles and have Office 365 Education, you can get started with Staff Notebooks today.<\/p>\n

Get started with Staff Notebook<\/h3>\n

Here are just a few of the ways you can use your Staff Notebook:<\/p>\n

Collaboration space<\/h3>\n