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.

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