1. Technology in the Music Classroom

2. Overview itsLearning - Adding simple tasks to grade quickly
- Exporting tasks to another class
- Creating learning objectives
- Gradebook - activating/deactivating and
exporting

3. Adding Tasks
Pick the course you wish to add the task

4. Adding Tasks cont…
Select the “Add” button on the left panel

5. Adding Tasks cont…
Select the “Task” button on the bottom half under “Activities”

6. Adding Tasks cont…
Create a title of the task (Fall rhythm assessment, SoMi, My Aunt Came Back…)
Click on “Show more options” on bottom of screen
Under “Assess and evaluate” options, select “Assess task with an assessment scale”
An assessment tab will appear. Click on it and select “SBGB -PERFORMANCE(4-1)
Click Save

7. Adding Tasks cont…

8. Exporting “Tasks” to other courses (classes)
Click on the folder that has the task you wish to copy and export to another class

9. Exporting “Tasks” to other courses (classes) cont…
Check the box to the left of the task you wish to select
Click the “Action” drop down and select “Copy to”

10. Exporting “Tasks” to other courses (classes) cont…
Select the course (class)
Select “Copy” and done!

11. Creating Learning Objectives
Click on “Settings” on left panel
Select “Learning objectives”

12. Creating Learning Objectives cont…
Click on “Create” button
Add a title (Rhythm Assessment Standards, Singing, Movement…)
Click on the “Save” button

13. Creating Learning Objectives cont…
Select the Learning Objective you just created
Click the “Assessment Criteria” button
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14. Creating Learning Objectives cont…
Add criteria

15. Fill out criteria based on a four-point scale and click “Close” when done.

16. Adding Learning Objective to a “Task”
Select the task
Click the options button and select “Edit”
Options
Task
Edit

17. Adding Learning Objective to a “Task” cont…
Select “Show more options” at the bottom
Select “Add learning objectives”
Select the learning objective you wish to add to this task
Select the “Insert and close” button

18. Adding Learning Objective to a “Task” cont…
A dropdown will now appear under Learning objective assessment that says “Do not use”
Click the dropdown and change to “Assessment criteria”
Click “Save” and finished!

19. Gradebook - Activating “Tasks”
Select any task you have created on the left panel
Select “Make available”
This task is now added to the grade book
Task

20. Gradebook - Deactivating “Tasks”
Select any task you have created on the left panel
Select “Make unavailable”
Tasks are made unavailable by default, so this only works with tasks that have been made available
This task is now removed from the grade book

21. Exporting Gradebook to excel
Select “Follow-up and reports on the left panel
Select Gradebook under the Follow-up section

22. Exporting Gradebook to excel cont…
Click on the options button
Select “View in Excel”
Your gradebook is now available in Excel for editing and printing
Options

23. Overview Links Noteflight - https://www.noteflight.com/login
Pros: Free version available
Con: Space very limited with free version, student login not linked with
google account
Finale NotePad Notation -
Con: Limited, student login not linked with google account
Flat -
Pros: Free version available, Student login with existing google account,
teacher and student access
Con: Space very limited with free version
OneNote -
Pros: Student class creation, recording options, playback options,
visual/audio student records made available.
Con: Not user friendly when getting started, creating tasks and assignments can be
redundant

24. This is the most important takeaway that everyone has to remember.

25. Thanks!