How to install the OneNote Class Notebook Add-in in your Organization

OneNote Class Notebook is an interactive way for teachers to save their time by collaborating and organizing the work distributed among students and increase the efficiency of their teaching methods. According to Microsoft, “OneNote Class Notebooks have a personal workspace for every student, a content library for handouts, and a collaboration space for lessons and creative activities.” Today, we’re going to talk about how to bring the native functionality of OneNote Class Notebook by installing its Add-in to your OneNote Desktop app.

Install OneNote Class Notebook Add-in

The add-in has a lot of features which promises a collaborative interaction with students. It has a content management section where you can distribute your class notebooks and content library among students. You can also quickly review the student’s work under review section of this Add-in. Managing the class notebooks and adding/removing the students or teachers is also quite easy. What’s more interesting about this Add-in is the ability to integrate, configure and connect to several Learning Management Systems through Windows Group Policy, including the very own Microsoft Classroom.
OneNote Class Notebook Add-in has two pre-requisites for installation on any computer which is as below:
  • OneNote app installed on your desktop should be of version 2013 or higher (Currently, Office 2013 and 2016)
  • Microsoft .NET 4.5 should be installed on your PC.
Apart from the above requirements, the add-in is only supported on Windows 7 or higher versions of OS. Also, it needs administrative privileges to install. If you want to try out the add-in for your OneNote desktop app, follow the below steps:

1. Download the .msi Installer file along with the Group Policy templates from the Microsoft Download Center.
2. Install the Class Notebook Add-in by deploying the MSI file using Microsoft System Center, Group Policy Software Installation or another equivalent deployment mechanism.

Handling Class Notebook Add-in updates

Deployment methods and schedules vary on an organizational basis. Based on your company’s deployment timeline, you can directly deploy the updates for this add-in soon as they become available on the Download Center website. This will, in turn, make sure that all your employees are running the latest version of OneNote Class Notebook Add-in.

OneNote Class Notebook
OneNote Class Notebook


Nevertheless, updates are not imposed on the product basis, but you can choose to take advantage of the bug fixes and new features that are rolled out in subsequent updates.
If you have brought this add-in to your Organization’s productivity suite, let us know how you like this functionality.


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