OneNote Class NoteBook for whole school

[CapnPugwash]

Hi,

 

One of our users has created a structure with OneNote ClassNoteBook for the whole school. It covers every subject + admin stuff etc. He is well down the line as far as getting it going and has a number of teachers logging in / adding resources etc.

 

He's done it on his own and hasn't really involved me. Now I'm looking at it, a couple of things leap out. The whole thing resides in his personal sharepoint space. If I disable his account, everyone loses access...

 

Is anyone else using ClassNoteBook? Are you using it like we do, as a central management hub for ALL subjects?

 

Personally, I would have thought SharePoint sites would have been better for what he's doing but I'm happy for more experienced users to correct me

[danbuntu]

Class note book is designed for classes.

 

you create your shared resources and add your students to it. If gives you a quick way to share resources with those students, mark their work etc. I can't see it working on a whole school level.

 

Have a whole school onenote and using that to copy copy resources into a class notebook could work though.

[CapnPugwash]

Class note book is designed for classes.

 

you create your shared resources and add your students to it. If gives you a quick way to share resources with those students, mark their work etc. I can't see it working on a whole school level.

 

Have a whole school onenote and using that to copy copy resources into a class notebook could work though.

 

 

Yeah, posted same question to Microsoft forum (which I find to be quite helpful & worth the effort) and got this answer

 

Class Notebook is not used as a central management hub for all subjects. So, it’s not recommend that let one user manage all other users’ class notebook. A best practice is let every teacher have their own class notebook based on different classes and share it with others.

 

 

 

If you want a central management hub, SharePoint sites will be a better solution as you mentioned in your original post.

 

 

O365 is quite a beast, trying to pick it up on the fly is fine but I feel like (long term) I need to become a bit of an expert. Not sure how to go about that!