Save a copy of your school notes to your OneNote notebook
If you are a student using a Microsoft 365 account, your work in OneNote is stored in OneDrive. This enables you to save a personal copy of your notes and reference them in the future.
Get started
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Make sure that you have a personal Microsoft account. If you don’t have an account, create one here.
Important: If your account ends in @outlook.com, @hotmail.com, or @live.com, you automatically have a personal Microsoft account.
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Sign into OneNote with both your school and personal accounts.
Note: Learn how you can sign into multiple accounts on OneNote here.
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Create a new notebook using your personal account. This new notebook is where you'll save a personal copy of the work from your school account.
Copy notes from your school account to your personal account
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Open the OneNote app.
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Navigate to the notebook with the notes you'd like to copy over.
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Right-click on the page that you want to copy, then select Move/Copy from the pop-up menu.
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Choose the section where you want to copy, then select Copy.
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Navigate to your personal account's notebook to view the copy of that page.
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Repeat the steps above for any pages you want to copy into your personal account.
Copy class materials from a OneNote Class Notebook
If the notes that you want to copy are part of a OneNote Class Notebook, in addition to your own notes, you can also choose to make a copy of the supporting class materials from the class Content Library and Collaboration Space.
Copy a Class Notebook from your school account to your personal account using OneNote for the web.
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Sign into your school’s Microsoft 365 portal using your student credentials (your_name@yourschool.edu).
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Select OneNote > Class notebooks.
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Right-click on the notebook you want to copy to your personal Microsoft account and select Save a Copy.
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A pop-up window will appear, prompting you to choose where you want to save a copy of this notebook. Choose Save to a Microsoft Account.
Note: If you weren't already signed into your personal Microsoft account, you'll be prompted to sign into it now.
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After signing into your personal Microsoft account, you'll be presented with a screen requesting permission for the OneNote.com service to access your personal account. Choose Yes to save a copy to your personal Microsoft account.
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Select Copy notebook to confirm that you wish to make a copy of the notebook.
Download a copy of your OneDrive files
If you are graduating or transferring schools, you may want to save a personal copy of documents to reference later.
Important: The Notebooks folder in your OneDrive is view-only. In order to save the contents of your OneNote notebooks elsewhere, see above.
Download a copy of your assignments in Teams
Assignments in Teams allows students and educators to access and organize class assignments. When you submit an assignment for a class, it's stored in the Assignments tab within that class.
You can view all class assignments by selecting Assignments within Teams. Follow the instructions below to download a copy of an assignment.
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Sign into your school’s Microsoft 365 portal using your student credentials (your_name@yourschool.edu).
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Open Teams.
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Select Assignments.
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Select the assignment you want to save.
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Select More attachments options on any item listed in the My Work section, select Download to download a copy of your work to your personal device.
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Repeat steps 4 and 5 for each assignment you want to download.
Learn more
Take your files with you when you graduate
View your assignments across classes in Microsoft Teams (student)