How Notesanity works

Three ways: Continue with Google using your school account, a sign-in link emailed to you, or an email and password. They all reach the same account — the address is what identifies you, not the method.

Check your spam folder first. School mail systems filter unfamiliar senders hard, and Notesanity is a new sender. If you administer your school's email, allowlisting notesanity.com fixes it for everyone at once. Signing in with Google avoids email entirely and is the most reliable route at a school.

Yes. The short tours that appear the first time you open your home screen, a class or a notebook can be started over under Settings → Guided tours. Skipping one only hides it until you ask for it back.

Only addresses on a domain your school has approved. The first person to sign in sets the school up; after that an admin decides which domains count as staff and which as students, under Settings.

A PDF, a Word document or a PowerPoint deck — the last two are converted through your own Google Drive, so the file never passes through us as anything but a PDF. You can also pick a file straight out of Drive, or start from blank paper.

Lined (wide or college), graph, dot grid, music staves, engineering, isometric, a coordinate plane, or plain blank — in eight rule colors, and you choose how many pages, up to 100. You can add more pages at any time.

Text boxes, checkboxes, dropdowns, prompts with an answer area, image uploads and audio recordings for students to fill in — plus rich text and pictures of your own that are part of the page rather than something to answer.

Press Publish to students and every student in the class gets their own copy. Change something later — a typo, an extra page — and Update student notebooks sends the change to all of them at once; their writing stays exactly where they put it. Publishing is separate from assigning: a notebook can sit with a class to be written in without ever being homework.

Yes. Pages carry a permanent identity, so renaming, regrouping and reordering them doesn't disturb work already written on them. Inserting a page inside a section keeps it in that section.

Publish the notebook to the class first, then create an assignment over it: choose which of its pages the task covers and set a due date. Those pages are the ones that come back to you to be graded. A student who joins later is caught up automatically, and you're asked which past assignments should apply to them.

Open the assignment and move through the roster. You write on the student's page in your own layer — your marks and their work never mix. Add a comment, set a grade, and return it.

No. Handing in freezes the pages, and they stay frozen after grading, so nothing can be altered after it's been graded. You can reopen a piece if a student needs another go — the grade you already gave is kept.

Once returned, the grade panel becomes a record rather than a form: the save buttons are hidden and the fields are locked. Reopening it puts it back in play.

Yes, two kinds. A personal notebook sits outside every class and nobody else can see it. A notebook made inside a class sits alongside the coursework and the teacher of that class can read it.

Read it — and write on any page the student has opened to them. Nothing else: a teacher can't change what the student wrote, add pages, or set the notebook as an assignment, and classmates can't see it at all.

Open your notebook and choose Let your teacher write at the top, then tick the pages you want. Their writing goes on top of yours in their own color, they can't change what you wrote, and unticking a page closes it again.

In their own notebooks, yes: pages can be renamed and grouped into sections. In a notebook their teacher built, the pages belong to the teacher.

It's built for one. Ink is pressure-sensitive, and a hand resting on the screen won't draw while a stylus is in use. There's a toggle for whether a finger scrolls the page or draws on it — scrolling is the default.

If it recognizes that you're highlighting along a line of text it snaps the stroke straight, so a highlight looks deliberate rather than hand-wobbled.

Quick removes a whole stroke wherever you touch it — fastest for clearing a mistake. Manual rubs out only the part you drag over, for fixing one letter without redrawing the word.

Work is written to the device first and sent to the server behind it, retrying until it lands. A dropped connection mid-lesson doesn't lose the page; it syncs when the network returns. The toolbar tells you which state you're in.

The student, and the teachers of the class it belongs to. Not other students. Personal notebooks are visible only to the student who made them.

A notebook can be exported to PDF from inside it. If you need a bulk export of a whole school's data, email support@notesanity.com and we'll arrange it.

Email support@notesanity.com from a school address. See the privacy notice for what we hold and how long.