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Removing students from Team created class notebooks
Here's an interesting one:
When a new student is added to a Team, they also arrive in class notebook. But when they are removed from the Team, they remain in the notebook. When you go to 'add or r...
It does work like that. Remove the student from the team and access is removed but the student section remains in the team class notebook. Not a big deal if you are working with a single student to then have to go in and delete the individual section to remove it. However, at the end of the school year when I want to recycle my class notebooks and use them again for next year's class this is additional steps that I shouldn't have to take individually. I will have to remove this year's students from the team and then go into the notebook and delete each student section individually. Not a problem for 10 kids in 1 notebook, but what about the other 100 in the other notebooks? That's a lot of extra work. As a safety measure couldn't there be a check box when removing a student from a team to either delete or not delete the student section from the notebook? And then an Are you sure? box? Keep it simple.
I appear to still have the same issue as this after a long time. I know that OneNote, ClassNote and Teams ClassNoteBook are all very slightly different beasts and so features available in one are not necessary available in all.
KeirStanley The student section isn't removed automatically when a student is removed from the Team because that student section would likely include Assignment/Assessments that you might need for grading or permanent records even though the student is no longer in the Team. It is quite straightforward to delete the student section from the desktop app using right click>Delete section. Teams (SharePoint) manages the permissions for access to the Class Notebook attached to the Team, so even though the student section is still present, the student will no longer have access to the Class Notebook as soon as they are removed from the Team. Conversely when a student is added to the Team, they immediately gain access to the Class Notebook attached to the Team and an individual student section is created for them (though this sometimes has a time delay to sync and show up in all copies of the Class Notebook - web/desktop/mobile).
millerblair Thank you
Yes I had seen this option and have used it for individual students. It is slightly more work if you have 50+ students to remove. Especially if like me you mainly use the Office 365 version due to sync errors in the past.
Thanks again. I was hoping that MS may have updated the feature.
Keir
