MS Teams Class NoteBook (OneNote) Size

[JonnyAlpha]

Hi all,

 

Looking for some expert advice on the use of Class NoteBook (OneNote).

 

Bottom Line Up Front:

 

Is there a size limit for OneNote, whereby after reaching a certain size problems start to occurs?

I have tried to find the answer online and have found articles stating that a file size limit of 2GB, however it is unclear if this is files attached to the OneNote or the actual OneNote itself.

 

I have looked at Storage Metrics in Sharepoint and most of our Notebooks are  between 1GB and 5GB, one class (my worst offenders for breaching school practises - see below) are currently at 14GB. Screenshots attached - Class Notebooks are in the SIte Assets Folder at the top and account for about 90% of the folder size.

 

What I am trying to ascertain is whether this will cause a problem, e.g bandwidth, slow loading of pages, sync problems etc. I understand that OneNote caches Notebooks locally and only downloads pages that are currently being used. If there are potential problems I can use this to try and get the SLT to enforce what should be the school's adopted practises.

 

Background 

 

In our school we have adopted the use of MS Teams and more specifically the Class Notebook (which is a OneNote Document) as the launch pad for all lessons. This means every class  in school is the same and make covers, whether using supply teachers or teaching assistant, the same regardless of class. 

teacher have complete autonomy on what the use to teach, but any digital media needed for teaching (Office Docs, PDFs, Videos etc) should be stored in Teams in a KS Team and hyperlinked on the Class Notebook page for that lesson.

 

About a year ago, having weaned teachers away from Smart Notebook, the masses arouse and the HT bowed down and bought licences for teachers to use Smart Notebook. We had phased it out as SMART was an offline / Desktop product only and could not be launched from OneNote Class Notebook.

The reintroduction was agreed after I had researched and identified Smart's new online tool Lumio, which is cloud based. You can upload your SMART Notebooks into Lumio and launch them from there, problem solved. 

 

I was allowed to do an initial training session, however no other training followed and those teachers that now use SMART iot to comply with the schools ClassNote policy, simply dump the actual file onto the Class Notebook page. This means for any cover, and indeed for the teacher unless they host the file elsewhere (which they probably do) the file has to be downloaded and opened in SMART Desktop. No one to my knowledge is using Lumio - stating that you cannot edit lessons in Lumio (I have yet to identify if this is indeed true)

 

Many thanks