{"id":4136,"date":"2020-03-27T21:23:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T04:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eu.shop.wacom.eu\/us\/?p=4136"},"modified":"2026-06-05T09:26:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:26:36","slug":"remote-learning-how-to-use-wacom-one-and-onenote-to-engage-students-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/remote-learning-how-to-use-wacom-one-and-onenote-to-engage-students-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote Learning: How to use Wacom One and OneNote to Engage Students Online"},"content":{"rendered":"Solutions for remote teaching and e-learning are in high demand. Because of the Corona virus, schools and teachers are now challenged to develop ideas on how to teach digitally from home. Readily available software tools, like OneNote, can be a great help to create teaching materials, distribute worksheets to students and exchange documents with fellow teachers online. And in combination with a graphics tablet like the Wacom One<\/a>, teachers can experience the full benefits of the handwriting function within OneNote in online lessons.<\/em>\n\nIn this article, Stefan Malter, the author of the successful German blog \u201cOneNote for Teachers<\/a>\u201d, will show you the benefits of using OneNote in combination with Wacom One and how you can teach even more comfortably from home.<\/em>\n\nFrom Stefan Malter:<\/strong>\n

Scenario 1: Sketches, formulas, panel pictures \u2013 Draw and write in OneNote<\/h2>\nWhen you prepare your teaching materials on the computer, you will quickly run into the limitations that come with the use of a mouse and keyboard. Mathematical formulas, explanatory sketches, and descriptive blackboard pictures are easier to draw with a pen.\n\nFor many years I have been using OneNote and a graphic tablet connected to my computer for digital drawings. The new Wacom One has its own screen so you can draw directly on your documents. The included pen slides over the display \u2013 almost like paper.\n\n\"\"\n\nYou can connect the graphics tablet to your desktop PC, laptop, Mac or even a smartphone. Because Wacom One is portable, it is also well suited for use in the home office. In the basic setting, you see exactly what you see on the computer monitor, for example, the open OneNote notebook.\n\nIt is very easy to use and you will quickly get used to working with it. You control the mouse arrow with the pen. Just put the pen tip wherever you need to be on the display. You can then simply tap and select symbols and buttons. The pen also has a customizable button on the side that can replace the right mouse button function.\n\n\"\"\n\nYou can find all drawing functions under the \u201cDraw\u201d tab \u2013 both in the OneNote app for Windows 10 and in the desktop version. You can choose from different pens and colors in the menu above. When the free Wacom driver is installed, you can start drawing and writing directly on the OneNote page.\n\n\"\"\n\nHere are some examples of how you can use Wacom One as a teacher with OneNote:\n\nAnnotations and highlights in texts, articles and PDF documents<\/strong>\n\n\"\"\n\nBrainstorm and whiteboard digitally<\/strong><\/a>\n\n\"\"\n\nWrite mathematical formulas<\/strong>\n\n\"\"\n\nI will also show you here in the blog how you can further expand the drawing functions in OneNote, convert handwriting into text and maybe even create your own sketch notes.\n

Scenario 2: Using handwritten notes to give feedback to students<\/h2>\nMany schools are now benefiting from Office 365, which is free of charge for educational institutions. Within the platform, teachers and especially students can use the OneNote course notebooks. The advantage: You can conveniently distribute your worksheets created in OneNote to your students. The students then work individually on the tasks in their own OneNote notebook on a PC or tablet at home.\n\nIf you organize your online classes like this, a pen tablet or Wacom One can be a great benefit. Just like with a pen on paper, you can individually correct the students\u2019 tasks and leave personal comments to them on their worksheets.\n\n\"\"\n\nOf course, you can use a red pencil for corrections in OneNote \u2013 like the old days! \ud83d\ude09 However, experience shows that schoolchildren like the colorful rainbow pencil much better.\n\n \n

Scenario 3: Using OneNote as a whiteboard in online lessons<\/h2>\nLet\u2019s increase the level of difficulty! Maybe at some point, you dare to conduct your online classes live, for example by video conference with your students. The popular Microsoft Teams platform enables collaboration for everyone. It is easy to use and is also part of Office 365. You can also integrate OneNote in teams and thus make the content of your notebooks available to your students.\n\nDuring an online meeting, you can now share your current screen in addition to your webcam image, so you can show your students live what you are doing. This way you can explain to them step-by-step what you are drawing on the graphic tablet.\n\nI recommend that you switch to a full-page view or full-screen view in OneNote. You can find them in both versions of OneNote at the top right as a double arrow. Clicking on it will hide all the menus so that you have even more space to draw on the graphics tablet.\n\n\"\"\n\nAnother advantage: The created sketches and blackboard pictures are saved directly in OneNote and are permanently available to all students.\n

Scenario 4: Using Wacom One as a second screen<\/h2>\nThe Wacom One is treated like a second connected monitor under Windows 10. This not only allows you to duplicate your computer screen, but you can also use it as a second desktop with its own program windows.\n\n\"\"\n\nFor example, you can show a document on the main screen, read a web article or watch a learning video \u2013 and at the same time take notes on the graphics tablet in OneNote.\n\nThe cable of the Wacom One is long enough so that you can place the device comfortably on your lap.\n\nTo expand your desktop to a second screen, you have to adjust your display settings. You can find it at the bottom right in the notification menu of Windows 10. Alternatively, you can also press the key combination \u201cWindows + P\u201d and thus switch between the different modes.\n\nAs soon as you select \u201cExpand\u201d, the second desktop appears on the graphics tablet. Now you can move apps and program windows here and use them in parallel. It may be useful to adjust the display to your needs, using Windows 10 settings. For example, you can determine the position of the two screens and the size of the icons and symbols to be displayed.\n
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