The OneNote Class Notebook is an app that helps you set up OneNote in your class. This app will create a class notebook, which includes three types of sub-notebooks:
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Student Notebooks—private notebooks that are shared between each educator and their individual students. Educators can access these notebooks at any time, but students cannot see other students' notebooks.
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Content Library—a notebook for educators to share course materials with students. Educators can add and edit its materials, but for students, the notebook is read-only.
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Collaboration Space—a notebook for the students and educator of the class to share, organize, and collaborate in.
Learn more in our free online Class Notebook PD course for educators.
What you'll need
Time to set up: 5–10 minutes for a single class.
Already using Microsoft Teams? Set up your Class Notebook from the Class Notebook tab inside your class team instead — it skips the manual student list because Teams already knows your roster.
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A Microsoft 365 subscription for Education that includes OneDrive for Business. If you're not sure you have this, contact your IT administrator to verify.
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An organizational account for yourself (the educator) with permissions to use the OneNote Class Notebook app to create the class notebooks.
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Your students must have Microsoft 365 organizational accounts.
Getting started
Choose the setup path that matches where your class works. Each path creates the same OneNote Class Notebook structure, but roster management and storage are different.
Set up in Teams
Use this path when your class already works in Microsoft Teams.
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Roster: Students and educators come from the class team roster.
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Storage: The notebook is stored in the class team's SharePoint site.
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Access: Educators and students open the notebook from the Class Notebook tab in the class team or from OneNote.
Set up a Class Notebook in Teams using existing content
Set up in Microsoft 365 LTI
Use this path when your students open OneNote Class Notebook from an LMS course connected with Microsoft 365 LTI (look for the Microsoft Education tab in the LMS course).
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Roster: Students and educators come from the LMS course roster through Microsoft 365 LTI.
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Storage: The notebook is stored in the connected course or team SharePoint site.
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Access: Students should enter from the LMS course the first time, and can then bookmark the notebook for later use.
Set up Class Notebook in Microsoft 365 LTI
Set up in OneDrive
Use this path for a standalone Class Notebook created from Microsoft 365 or aka.ms/classnotebook.
What happens after: students get an email invite the moment you finish setup, and the notebook appears in their OneNote after they accept and OneNote finishes syncing.
A few notes on:
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Roster: Educators add students and co-educators in the Class Notebook wizard or from Manage notebooks.
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Storage: The notebook is stored in the educator's OneDrive.
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Access: Share the notebook link or ask students to open it from OneNote after they are added.
Create a Class Notebook in OneNote
Add or remove educators in Class Notebook for OneNote
Troubleshooting
If you can't find OneNote Class Notebook, check with your administrator to ensure you have a Microsoft Education license.
Other troubleshooting tips: Troubleshoot Class Notebook.
