Hello:
I am very new to moodle and Im interested in using moodle to teach music classes online. Is there anyone doing this who would like share any strategies for getting started? Thanks in advance ..Jeff Gee
Teaching music classes online
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I rather like this quiz plugin (but I like just about any quiz plugin).
https://moodle.org/plugins/qtype_musictheory
Good question by the way.
https://moodle.org/plugins/qtype_musictheory
Good question by the way.
Re: Teaching music classes online
Some of our Music Instructors have been using the Assignment activity and adjust the Assignment settings submission type to be offline(just untick the two types). Similar to what our Speech teachers do so that they can score a speech presentation.
Then they used Moodle Advanced grading methods either the Rubrics or Marking guide to create how they are scoring the performance. Depending if the assessment method is looking at different type of instrument use (wind, brass, percussion, etc..) the teacher creates groups for different scoring.
Of course for speech presentations this works efficiently because the student typically are giving their speech in front of the class. However for music it is not as efficient because these are done individually with the instructor so they can observe the posture, pitch, placement of instrument and other musical criteria. So I am hoping that they start to experiment with the new feature of audio/video recording submissions in the Assignment activity. Of course there are many nice plugins like Poodl that allow audio/video submissions.
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I teach a number of courses using blackboard at my uni, but it's a pain. As a friend of mine said, seemingly designed by accountants for education.
I have built a Moodle guitar course which i will launch soon which is has been a far better experinece. But effectively, it all video instructional based. A self directed study path set in a weekly course format. There is a Theory section within this course where i used quizes and such, but in the end pulled the plug on those activities as i had trouble with clusters. I like the idea of random questions, but it just seemed problematic and slow - not the experience i wanted to put out.
I have built a Moodle guitar course which i will launch soon which is has been a far better experinece. But effectively, it all video instructional based. A self directed study path set in a weekly course format. There is a Theory section within this course where i used quizes and such, but in the end pulled the plug on those activities as i had trouble with clusters. I like the idea of random questions, but it just seemed problematic and slow - not the experience i wanted to put out.
Re: Teaching music classes online
Thanks for the reply.. it is good to know what I might be getting in to:)
Re: Teaching music classes online
Hi,
I've studied music (I was really lucky to have been able to study with this guy: https://simonpurcell.com/) & used to be a professional musician.
For music notation, chord charts, & even "Grigson grids," I think MuseScore https://musescore.org/en (free & open source of course) is a richly featured, flexible, & relatively easy to use addition to students' digital tool kits. There's also large libraries of shared transcriptions & scores in MuseScore file formats
Students can submit their MuseScore files for feedback, advice, & grading as Assignments. MuseScore can also export scores as PNG images or post them as attachments in Moodle forums so that they can demonstrate what they mean. I reckon this would be better for studying music theory than MIDI files or audio recordings, i.e. keeping the focus on music structure rather than on performance.
It'd be great if there were a way of rendering music notation with Javascript, similar to what Moodle already does to LaTeX math notation with the MathJax filter, but what I've seen so far is pretty clunky, e.g. https://www.abcjs.net/
Just some thoughts
Matt
Re: Teaching music classes online
Thanks for the reply... and thanks for the tips... quite useful:)