Remove "Staff Notebook" from Microsoft Teams for Education
I am not sure if this is a bug or not but we are using Microsoft Teams educational licenses. We want to use the Teams for our internal staff departments first. For some reason the setup of teams includes extra educational features like it force creates a OneNote tab called "Staff Notebook" in the General channel of each team. the OneNote includes a lot of classroom type customization that we do not want/need. Our departments have their own OneNotes. I cannot delete Staff Notebook tab or even rename it. I can add and delete other OneNotes but we want a clean set of tabs. Does anyone have any suggestions for getting rid of this? Thanks.
Robert Derby
shared this idea
Hi everyone! If you do not want to use the OneNote Staff Notebook or any of the other default tabs across the various team types, we suggest creating an ‘Anyone’ team instead.
The ‘Anyone’ team will not include any add-ons by default and gives you the flexibility to use Teams however you would like. We understand that there are so many other ways you can use Teams that does not fit the Class/PLC/Staff team template. So ‘Anyone’ will be your best option!
More information on the different team types in Teams for Education can be found here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/choose-a-team-type-to-collaborate-in-microsoft-teams-0a971053-d640-4555-9fd7-f785c2b99e67
Feel free to reply back here if you have additional feedback.
Thank you!
Justin
96 comments
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James Neill
commented
Typical Microsoft to bake in what should be optional and then take ages (if ever) to respond to user feedback.
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Anonymous
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I'm adding my support to remove the Staff Notebook Tab - no one i know uses it and on a small screen it stops the useful tabs from being seen. It's hard enough to get people to engage with your content sometimes without another obstacle like this in the way. Thanks.
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Giselle Llanes
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Has anyone found a way to remove the stupid tab??????
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Jim C
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Please make it possible to delete or hide the Staff Notebook. By the time we realised what an annoyance this is, it was impossible to disband the Team to create a new Team without it.
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Kat Lindsey
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I can’t figure out how to create an “Anyone” team, help? Is that the same as other?
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Anonymous
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As an administrator and team creator, I should have the ability to delete any tabs, not just the ones I create. I have never met another staff team that uses Staff Notebook. It's honestly messy and useless!
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Anonymous
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Come on. Just let us delete this tab
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Christopher Watson
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+1 remove it... i should say more than +1, everyone in my organization that ends up setting this up, only to realize it can't be undone would prefer it be removed. Showing this inflexibility is making it harder to get others on board with adopting teams.
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Karen Sikkeland
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Remove it - at least add a warning when someone wants to use this room-template that it will seriously **** up your OneNote flexibility.
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vargaz
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Please add to the possibility to remove/hide or at least rename the Staff notebook. Thank you
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Anonymous
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Please allow removing the Staff notebook. It is culturally inappropriate and suits a very limited audience.
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Anon
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Remove it, it just doesn't make sense that you can neither remove it, rename it, or hide it. It is unnecessary clutter and causes confusion.
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Alan
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Need to be able to remove the staff notebook...Royal pain and next to useless for what we want to do. At least be able to remove from the tab bar. I'm trying to convince people to use Teams here for research management and this is an unwanted complication.
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Bosse Zetterlund
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Excellent work-around! --- I will use that one --- if you just give me the tools to copy all channels with all data to a new team - including the possibility to deselect the Staff tab!
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Anonymous
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It's vital that you allow this feature. I have a staff notebook that I don't want on our Teams page. It contains names of staff who don't even work for us anymore and I can't even change that. The sooner we have the ability to remove this tab the better. It's the most prominent tab and is never used. Please allow us the functionality to remove this or at least hide it.
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Anonymous
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Please consider letting users customise this. We setup the staff team, as a staff team and have been using it for ages. We now want to make it more configurable to use, and you tell me we must delete it and recreate it if we want to remove a tab? This should be a tick box in your channel menu, done.
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Anonymous
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I just want to add to the list of comments here requesting this. I have an education Team and the school automatically adds all 85 of my students to the Team. This is the first semester my school has done this and it's super helpful because I don't have to worry about making sure each student adds themself to the Team. In the past, I have made "anyone" Teams, as you suggested, but you would be surprised how much of a pain it is to get 85 full-grown adults to add themselves to a Team. I have 0 need for the 'files', 'assignments', 'class notebook', or 'grades' tabs in my class. I do, however, need many other tabs that are now hidden because of the four unnecessary tabs. The person in charge of the Team (aka the course instructor) should definitely be able to delete these tabs or, at the very least, move them to the end of the line so that they're hidden instead of the tabs I do need. I would very much appreciate this very small adjustment to your program.
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Cathryn
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Please allow us to delete staff notebooks. I have an already established team - I am not going to create a new one but need to delete the old notebook. Really frustrating.
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Anonymous
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Or at least let me move it to the far right on the tabs row. Thank you.
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Anonymous
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One should definitely be able to delete a notebook after it is created! There are some many reasons why a notebook may no longer be appropriate.