1. Live Sharing Sessions
Using OneNote in a collaborative classroom
By Osaid Baninasor

2. Why using OneNote and Live
sharing sessions
 Start syncing quickly when other
people are also editing the same page
 People can be writing notes together
 Being in the same place where your
team shares content
 communicate with your colleagues
during a conference call without
having to wait for the resulting e-mail
volley to reach your Inbox

3. Why using OneNote and Live
sharing sessions
 Assign a task to a student and know
that everyone automatically has the
same information
 Having important events of the day(
from news releases that relate to your
practice, to client questions and their
resolutions ) all saved together, in real
time, in one place
 Create a team diary with OneNote
shared sessions

4. Why using OneNote and Live
sharing sessions
 Track the progress of each group of
students by clicking on their pages to
see what they were working on and how
they were doing
 Share each group's work with the entire
class
 Excellent tool for brainstorming
 Can be used in non-edit mode where the
instructor broadcasts to all students
 When the shared session ends, all the
students have their own copy of the
material

5. Why using OneNote and Live
sharing sessions
 You can set up a shared session with
as many other people as you want
 Peer-to-peer shared note-taking
experience. Which means you don't
need some fancy server or web site
 It is a little like a giant whiteboard that
everyone can stand at and write stuff
on
 You can type, paste in pictures,
charts, graphs, etc. You can also add
additional pages at any time, for

6. Create your own team diary
 Create a page layout that helps to
organize the content logically for
everyone in your group
 click anywhere on a OneNote page to
begin typing. You can easily allot
portions of your page to elements such
as a reminder list, a task assignment list,
and an open discussion area
 After you set up the page as you want it,
you can save its layout to reuse it for
each new shared session

7. Create your own team diary
 To save your page layout:
On the Format menu, click Stationery.
In the Stationery task pane, click Save
current page as stationery
 To apply the stationery to any page,
click the stationery name under My
Stationery in the Stationery task
pane. My Stationery appears in the
task pane after the first time that you
save your own stationery

8. Create your own team diary
In the following example, custom note flags have
been used for reminders and assigned tasks

9. Video

10. Start a shared note-taking
session
 On the File menu, click Share with
Others.
 In the Share task pane, click Start a
Session.
 In the Start Shared Session task
pane, select the pages to share, and
add a password if you want one. Then
click Start Shared Session.

11. Invite your colleagues to join
the session
 At the bottom of the Current Shared
Session task pane, make sure that the
Allow participants to edit check box is
selected. (This allows team members to
view and modify the selected shared
pages.)
 Click Invite Participants.
 OneNote automatically creates an
Outlook e-mail message containing the
information that participants need to join
the session. Add the e-mail addresses of
the intended participants just as you
would when creating any e-mail
message, and then click Send.

12. Video

13. Identify participants and discussion
threads in a shared note-taking
session
 Assigning a unique text color to each
participant to distinguish the author of
individual notes

14. Manage tasks and reminders
To create tasks and appointments:
 Select the text that you want to add to
an Outlook task or appointment.
 On the Tools menu, point to Create
Outlook Item, and then click either
Create Outlook Appointment or
Create Outlook Task.

15. Turn notes into documents
 Select the notes that you need. On the
File menu, point to Send to, and then
click Microsoft Office Word
 A new Word document containing your
selected text is created

16. Keep content of past shared
note-taking sessions
accessible
To save a team diary to a shared
location:
 On the File menu, click Share with
Others.
 Under Share this section, click a
location.

17. Useful Links
 http://office.microsoft.com/en-
us/onenote-help/take-notes-together-
with-other-people-HA010090750.aspx
 http://www.onppt.com/note/onenote_ar
ticle5.htm
 http://www.math.uaa.alaska.edu/~afkj
m/techteach/?q=node/37

18. References
 http://office.microsoft.com
 http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chris_pratley/
archive/2005/02/22/378667.aspx
 http://www.onenotehelp.com/2009/11/
19/share-notebooks-in-onenote-2010/