Can a teacher use mydocs.school?

Yes. Teachers sign in the same way as students. The dashboard shows your OneDrive plus the class notebooks you appear in. The class notebook content you get is your own section group — teacher pages and student sections aren't included on the same sign-in.

What about the teacher section of class notebooks?

Microsoft separates the teacher's pages from student sections in a class notebook. From the teacher's sign-in, you can take a copy of the teacher pages you authored — but redistributing student-authored content needs to go through your school's data protection process, not via a self-service tool.

Does a teacher download use a seat?

Yes — a leaving teacher uses a seat the same way a leaving student does (one seat, held for 60 days). If your school is sizing their seat pool for the year, ask them to include any staff leavers in the count.

What about resources I built that the school wants to keep?

If you authored a lesson resource on your school OneDrive, you can take a copy. The school may also retain a copy via SharePoint / Teams sharing, depending on how the resource was distributed. Talk to your head of department about anything that you'd want left behind for next year's teacher.

For teachers

You wrote it. Take it with you.

Teachers leave too — for new schools, for retirement, for different careers. The lesson notes, schemes of work, OneNote pages and OneDrive resources you wrote belong to you in spirit, even when the licence sat on the school's tenant. Here's how to take them with you, responsibly.

Why teachers' situation is different

Teachers usually have far more in their school account than students. A typical secondary teacher with five years at a school has:

A large OneDrive of lesson resources, presentations, handouts and admin documents.
Personal OneNote notebooks of CPD notes, scheme-of-work drafts, observation feedback.
The teacher section in every class notebook for every class taught.
A long Outlook history with parent emails, leadership threads, exam board correspondence.
Shared SharePoint sites for department resources.

Most of this is yours. Some of it isn't. The lines matter.

What is yours

Lesson resources you authored. The PowerPoints, worksheets, quizzes you made.
Your personal OneNote notebooks.
The teacher pages you wrote inside class notebooks (your own content, not student work).
Personal records of your own CPD, observation notes, professional reflections.

What isn't

Student-authored content. Student work in class notebooks belongs to the student — they own the words, the school owns the licence, you don't own either.
School-purchased resources. If the school paid for a curriculum package, the licence stays with the school.
Parental correspondence. Stays on the school's systems for safeguarding and audit reasons.
Performance / appraisal records. Your own copy of your reflections is yours; the formal records are the school's.

How mydocs.school handles teacher accounts

Teachers sign in the same way as students. The dashboard returns your OneDrive root and the class notebooks where your account appears. The class-notebook scope returns your own section group — which, for a teacher, is the teacher area you wrote in. Student sections aren't available on the same sign-in.

If you need a copy of student-authored material — for an exam board appeal, a safeguarding case, a re-mark — go through your school's data protection process, not via a self-service download.

A short checklist for moving on

Download your OneDrive and OneNote before your last day. Use mydocs.school for the one-click version, or the OneDrive web download plus per-notebook OneNote export for the DIY version.
Hand over what should stay. Talk to your head of department about lesson resources that the next teacher should inherit. Move them to a SharePoint location that survives your account being deactivated.
Update contact details on professional networks. Anywhere that has your school email — exam board memberships, subject associations, conference accounts — update to a personal address before forwarding stops.
Forward email while you still can. Tell parents you've worked closely with, leadership, the chair of governors if you've corresponded.

Common questions

Can a teacher use mydocs.school?: Yes. Teachers sign in the same way as students. The dashboard shows your OneDrive plus the class notebooks you appear in. The class notebook content you get is your own section group — teacher pages and student sections aren't included on the same sign-in.
What about the teacher section of class notebooks?: Microsoft separates the teacher's pages from student sections in a class notebook. From the teacher's sign-in, you can take a copy of the teacher pages you authored — but redistributing student-authored content needs to go through your school's data protection process, not via a self-service tool.
Does a teacher download use a seat?: Yes — a leaving teacher uses a seat the same way a leaving student does (one seat, held for 60 days). If your school is sizing their seat pool for the year, ask them to include any staff leavers in the count.
What about resources I built that the school wants to keep?: If you authored a lesson resource on your school OneDrive, you can take a copy. The school may also retain a copy via SharePoint / Teams sharing, depending on how the resource was distributed. Talk to your head of department about anything that you'd want left behind for next year's teacher.