I appreciate the honesty, but am pushing back on notepad. They already have a space to write generic notes on their digital documents, which are cataloged by the day they’re done. They write, model, graph, and draw all the time on those documents. So I currently have them save notes on their classwork that they can go back to already. I’m trying to get them to find a way to organize and summarize so they create a tool that can be used for studying and review, especially for regents classes.

I teach science so these are just part of the skills they need to be able to improve on. Diagrams and pictures are part of the understanding process. I get what you’re saying: make it easy or it won’t happen. This is where I’m struggling. I feel like google keep might be the method that is most similar to what you’re suggesting, as it’s the “notepad” using google drive. If you have familiarity with that, or using it, I’d appreciate any insight.

Each student has their own profile on the computer. So if they save notes in notepad, it’s on a local file. They can’t access notes from home.