After class, make sure you go back to your notes and clean them up. You’ll need to reorganize and condense the material. Doing so will reinforce the lecture and will also make it easier to study for the next test.

If it is a small or discussion based class, the noise of typing can be distracting so I would check. If it is a lecture based class, I don’t think there would be a problem.

I write it on paper and then type “notes from my notes” right before a test. I use the process of typing and the prioritizing necessary for that as a study tool.

Good luck in school!

My notes are now extremely well organized, I can find things fast and work during a lunch break or in between classes with ease.

This is so much better than the pen and paper, I cannot imagine having to go back!

The biggest problem most professors have with laptops in the classroom are students who are surfing the web or chatting on instant message instead of actually taking notes. This is a huge issue at my college because students were in class fact checking the professor’s lecture and pointed out all the errors in it during the class. The administration and the faculty members argued that by allowing students to fact check their lectures during the lecture it causes a cooling effect and is distracting.

Good luck!