This presentation outlines how one professor uses OneNote, Sharepoint, Office 365 and the OneNote for Teachers app to streamline the lab notebook process. Presentation by Melissa Barranger Mathys, Ph.D. Department of Chemistry Ursuline College

1. OneNote on-line notebooks
in Chemical Principles I Lab
CH105L
Melissa Barranger Mathys, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry

3. Overall
• OneNote notebook allows instructor to add
information pages that are shared with
students .
• The students edit their own pages that only
the instructor can see.

4. Preparation for on-line notebooks
• Request that IT (Al) set up your SharePoint
space on the Ursuline network.
• You will be given a folder that contains the
name of the course with “Full Access” editing.
• You will link to the notebook through Office
365.
• I used the OneNote for Teachers app to
initially set up the notebook pages and enroll
students

5. Office 365
Sites
Site Contents
OneNote Set Up Tool
 Create a notebook: Change the names of your pages (except the Collaboration
and Library) before you add students
 This process takes several minutes so I only did two students at a time.
 The computer will do automatic fill as you enter the name of the student
 Along the way you will be asked to adjust the permission for the students. By
default it is set so the students can read the Library, edit the Collaboration page
and edit any of their own pages. They cannot see or edit anyone else’s pages.

6. Typical list of student folders
within the Notebook; students
have the privileges of “members”

7. Site Site Settings

8. Site Permissions

9.  Need to set sharing with whatever computer you will use to sync
the notebook
 Make sure you sync so the students can see your changes.

11. Students can use OneNote on-line
from Office 365
• Students do not need their own copy of
OneNote to use this notebook
• They have the option to download the full
program
• When the item is bold, it has been edited and
you did not read it yet.
• Date and time and author stamped in
Collaboration page if you wish.

12. Summary
• The students get an electronic copy of the lab from
the “Library” page and copy onto a page with the
name of the lab.
• They edit the text and insert their excel sheets.
• They do not have to do anything to turn it in. I sync
the OneNote notebook at 12:20 PM the day it is
due. This time stamps the file and anything after
that is considered late.
• My tablet allows me to write messages on their lab
report and I have a grade template that goes at the
top of the page to show their score.
• This still requires me to record the score in D2L
manually.

13. Other cool things
• In Firefox (right click– this frame—print this
frame) choose “print to OneNote”
• Works well for D2L generated homework.
OneNote can be edited and saved so the
student see their work. Then they enter the
answer into D2L.