Applies To
OneNote for Microsoft 365 OneNote for Microsoft 365 for Mac OneNote for the web OneNote 2024 OneNote 2024 for Mac OneNote 2021 OneNote 2021 for Mac OneNote 2016 OneNote for Mac

You can open your Class Notebooks from OneNote, Microsoft Teams, your learning management system, or OneDrive. The right place to look depends on where the notebook was created.

Notebook created in

Stored in

Best place to open it

Class Notebook Wizard or Microsoft 365

The educator's OneDrive

Class Notebook Wizard or OneDrive

Microsoft Teams for Education

The class team's SharePoint site

The Class Notebook tab in the class team

Microsoft 365 LTI in an LMS

The connected course or class team's SharePoint site

Class Notebook app the Microsoft 365 LTI

Tip: If you are not sure where your notebook was created, open it in OneNote, right-click the notebook name, and select Copy Link to Notebook. A link with /personal/ usually points to OneDrive. A link with /sites/ or /teams/ usually points to SharePoint.

Open Class Notebooks in OneNote

If the notebook is already open in OneNote, select the notebook list and choose the Class Notebook you want. If it is not listed, use one of the paths below.

From your web browser

  1. Go to aka.ms/classnotebook and sign in with your school account.

  2. Select Manage notebooks.

  3. Select the Class Notebook name.

  4. Select Open Notebook.

In Teams

  1. Open Microsoft Teams and select your class team.

  2. Select the Class Notebook tab.

    class notebook

  3. If prompted, select Set up a OneNote Class Notebook or open the notebook that is already set up for the team.

    class notebook

Learn more about how to use Class Notebook in Teams.

In your LMS

  1. Open the course in your learning management system.

  2. Select the Microsoft 365 LTI app or the Class Notebook link your school added to the course.

    The Microsoft 365 LTI app with Class Notebook selected

  3. Select Class Notebook to open the notebook for the course.

If you do not see Class Notebook in your LMS course, ask your instructor or IT administrator whether Microsoft 365 LTI has been set up. Administrators can use Set up Class Notebook in the Microsoft 365 LTI app.

In OneDrive

  1. Sign in at microsoft365.com and select OneDrive.

  2. Select Class Notebooks to view notebooks you created with the Class Notebook Wizard.

  3. If you are a student or another educator in the class, select Shared with me to view Class Notebooks shared with you.

  4. Select the notebook by name.

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