MS OneNote

MS OneNote

Overview

Our LTI integration allows you to use OneNote Class Notebook to create a shared notebook and link it to your course. Learners enrolled in your course can access the notebook automatically without you having to add their names. After configuring the integration notebooks can be added in several places: in the school, personal or district library, in the resources area of a course or group, and in a module.

Register your LMS on OneNote

Before you enable the integration on your site go to https://www.onenote.com/lti, log in and follow the steps to register your site. Enter the name of your LMS and click Register.

After your LMS is registered, you will have access to the Consumer Key and Shared Secret. You will need these to enable the integration on your site.

Configuring OneNote integration

Before you start configuring the integration, make sure that the site admin installed the LTI feature via Admin/App Center.

If LTI is installed go to Resources and click Add.

Select Tool Provider from the pop-up.

Add the name and description then in the URL field enter https://www.onenote.com/lti. In the Key field enter the Consumer Key and in the Secret field enter the Shared Secret from OneNote.

After that click Save and you will be taken to the overview page of the tool provider. To edit the tool provider, click Edit. To delete the tool provider, click Delete.

Adding OneNote notebooks

After you've configured the OneNote tool provider, you can add notebooks to a course. Go to a course and choose the module where you want to add your OneNote notebook. Then go to the Resources tab of the content page from within a module and click Add.

Select Tool from the pop-up.

Select OneNote as Tool Provider from the list and some of the fields such as name, description, and URL will be automatically filled in. Enter the Consumer Key and Shared Secret from OneNote then select the library in which you want to put the notebook.

After you've entered all the details, click Save. You will see the notebook listed with the other resources. If you click on the link you will be taken to the exact location of the tool on the resources page.

If you can embed the notebook into the page clicking the Show content button.

In order to access the notebook, you need to sign in to your OneNote account.

After you signed in, follow the steps the create the notebook for your course.

Optionally you can share it with other instructors by entering their email addresses.

You can define what should be in each learner's private space.

After the notebook is added, you can add/remove instructors and learners and you can manage the notebooks.

You can hide the content by clicking the "Hide content" button.

To launch the tool in a new window, click the link from the resources page.

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