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Updates to the OneNote Class Notebook add-in—read/unread indicators in Review Student Work and more

As written on blogs.office.com

Since the school year started, we’ve been making improvements to the Class Notebook add-in for OneNote on the desktop. Here is a summary of the highlights—as well as details for the update releasing today. To update your OneNote Class Notebook add-in, just click the Update button on your toolbar to download and install the latest version. If you’ve never installed the Class Notebook add-in, you can get it from the OneNote Class Notebook website.

Improvements to Review Student Work

The most exciting new feature is being released today. Teachers now can quickly and easily see updates made by students in the Review Student Work pane.

Some common requests from teachers have been to:

• Easily see when students have started their work in a distributed page or assignment.

• Quickly see which pages you, the teacher, have already reviewed.

• See if a student added any new content after a teacher has already reviewed or graded a page.

These requests are all now possible with the new OneNote Class Notebook add-in (version 1.4.5.0) and use the familiar bold convention to denote the unread status.

Read/unread support in the Review Student Work pane.

Improvements to notebook and student mapping

• Notebook mapping—If your notebook name and LMS/SIS course name match, the Class Notebook add-in will automatically map the two together.

• Student mapping—If the format of your students is <LASTNAME>, <FIRSTNAME>, the student names will be automatically mapped.

A few more improvements and detailed summary

We have provided additional LMS support for SEQTA by adding assignment and grading integration. Also, we made some performance improvements to help speed up page distribution.

Here is a detailed summary of all the new capabilities and improvements to the Class Notebook add-in over the last few months. This list can also be found at the bottom of the Class Notebook add-in support page.

Version 1.2.0.0—September 2016

• SEQTA assignment/grading integration.

• Automatic mapping of Class Notebooks.

• Automatic mapping of students by last name, first name.

• Refresh tokens so teachers only need to sign in to the LMS/SIS once.

• Display a warning when distributing pages that contain attachments.

• Apostrophes in section names now preserved correctly during page distribution.

Version 1.3.0.0—September 2016

• Fixed an issue with grading in MS Classroom courses with many assignments.

Version 1.3.1.0—October 2016

• Fixed issue affecting Schoology sign-in.

Version 1.3.2.0—October 2016

• Fixed issue preventing student mappings from getting saved.

Version 1.4.0.0—November 2016

• Fixed bugs that happened with certain content types for page distribution.

Version 1.4.5.0—December 2016

• Read/unread state for Review Student Work assignments and distributions.

• Performance improvements for page distribution.

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Parent Focus groups reveal three important factors when parents are choosing a school. *

Among the top ten things parents in focus groups say they care about are the strength of the academic program, the vibe they get when the visit the school and how proactive teachers are in their communication about their children in particular.

The classroom is changing and schools that get ready for the next generation of educating will undoubtedly be on top with parents when they are on the search for a private school.

The focus study also revealed that parents mostly hear about schools from word of mouth. What elicits more parental chatter than parents described the new "flipped classroom" their kids participate in or the parent teacher conference they held over Skype, along with virtual field trips with great minds from countries across the globe and after school virtual homework help.

The strength of your school’s academic program is the primary reason most parents are searching for your school. Parents are searching for a school that will meet the needs of their child and challenge them to reach their potential. They want the best school that their money can buy. They want something different and better.

Here are just some of the way Technology will make the difference in academic programs moving forward.

1. Virtual FieldTrips/Visits: Classes host a museum curator from France, who gives a short lecture on the museum’s collection from the period.
2. Flipped Classroom - Students watch the lecture off campus and work on the assignment, share notes, research findings etc.. As a group in the classroom with the teacher there to interact and push students to their full potential.
3. Virtual after school help
4. Lesson plan dashboards that include mixed media and are shared and accessed by students and parents anytime on any device.

Parents have high expectations of the faculty in that they desire to receive frequent updates on their child. Parents are paying a lot of money for a private school education. As a result, they have high expectations from the faculty. These expectations include timely communications from their teachers about their child.

Here are some ways technology will help teachers communicate efficiently with parents:

1. Automatic Translation Services - Available through Skype for Education
2. Virtual or in person parent teacher conferences - Available with Skype for education

* Parent Focus Group information sourced from http://www.enrollmentcatalyst.com/2015/01/29/10-things-ive-learned-about-marketing-from-parent-focus-groups

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