Teaching tools overview

When you log into EarMaster on PC/Mac as a teacher, you are met by 4 teaching tools:

• Students Results - the results of your students
• Assignment Manager - the place where you can assign workbooks (formerly called "Courses" in EarMaster 6) to your classes and students
• Workbook Editor - where you can create assignments and save them on your computer.
• Music Library - where you can have a complete overview of all items available for your lessons, such as chords, scales, melodies, etc.

HOW TO PROCEED

1. Create an assignment with the Workbook Editor and save it on your computer
2. Open the Assignment Manager, select a class or a single user in the left column, and click on "Add Assignment" to send your assignment to that class or user.
3. When students have completed your lessons, you can check their results in the Student Results area.

Check out the video tutorial below and the other tabs of this support sections to obtain more details on each of the steps described above. 

Video tutorial: Teacher workflow in EarMaster Cloud

Create assignments

Open the Workbook Editor

You can create assignments for your students in the Workbook Editor, which is available from the home screen of EarMaster when you are logged in with a Teacher account.

Structure of a Workbook

An EarMaster workbook is structured around 2 levels: Modules and Lessons.

A module is simply a group of lessons, and the module title is the general heading for these lessons. When designing your workbook, you can use the modules to organize your lessons according to themes, difficulty levels, or curriculum steps.

Lessons are the actual training material of your course. A lesson can be either an exercise, explanations with audio and visual examples, or a mix of both.

A common way to structure a course is to include in each module a group of lessons that introduces variations on the same theme. It could be for instance the same intervals, melodies, or chords executed differently, played in a different key or at a different tempo, etc. The passing threshold would be set very low (even as low as 0%) so that the students may experience variation during the training session instead of getting stuck in a particular lesson. The last lesson of a module can be a test with a higher passing threshold. For that last 'test' lesson, you could set the setting If failed, go to so as to have the student retake the whole module if failed.

Name and describe the Workbook

You can name the workbook by clicking on "Unnamed Workbook" at the top of the screen.

Add modules

To add a module, click on the + icon in the module toolbar. 

Add lessons

To add a lesson, click on the + icon is the lesson toolbar. Then select an activity type in the Exercise Setup part of the screen, below the description of the lesson.

Depending on which activity you have selected, you will find different sets of options to configure your lesson. 

Import lessons from existing workbooks

Besides configuring your lessons from scratch, you can also import lessons from existing workbooks. To do that, open the Tools menu and click on Import lessons from workbook. If the workbook you are looking for isn't listed, you can click on browse to locate a workbook on your computer. 

Once you have selected the workbook you want to import from, you will see a list of all the modules and lessons it includes (and the workshops in the case of EarMaster's General and Jazz workshops). Select the content you need, and click OK to add the selected module/lessons/workshops to your custom workbook.

Save your Workbook

To save your Workbook, go to File-->Save Workbook or Save Workbook As…

Workbooks can only be saved locally on your computer. They will be uploaded to the Cloud when you assign them to students.

Notice that Workbooks located in the cloud can't be modified. You can only modify your local copy of the workbook and then upload it as a new separate assignment. If the assignment you have modified is already assigned to students. You must unassign it before uploading its modified version to avoid having students use different versions of your assignment. The modified assignment will be treated as a new assignment in the Student Results for the simple reason that it does not have the exact same content and structure as the old one.

Try your Workbook

To try your Workbook in EarMaster, go to the FILE menu at the top of the Window and choose "Open Workbook". Find your Workbook on your local computer and click Open to load your Workbook in the home screen of EarMaster, under the "Normal View" tab. The Workbook will be updated every time you modify it in the Workbook Editor and save your changes. 

Deploy your workbooks as assignments

You can assign your Workbooks to whole classes as Class Assignments, or to individual students as Personal Assignments via the Assignment Manager. For more details on this, please check the Deploy Assignments tab.

How to Deploy Assignments

In EarMaster Cloud, an assignment is a Workbook created with the Workbook Editor and sent to a class or individual students via the Assignment Manager.

The Assignment Manager

To deploy your assignments, open the Assignment Manager from the home screen of EarMaster on PC/Mac. The Assignment Manager is only available when you are using EarMaster with a Teacher account.

In the left column, you will see all the classes in which you have been added as a Teacher by the Admin of your school account. If you don't see your classes here, click on the "Refresh" icon at the top of the list while holding the ALT key of your computer keyboard. If your classes are still not appearing, then please ask your school Admin to add your teacher account to your classes.

Currently, EarMaster Cloud enables you to assign one class assignment per class and one personal assignment per student at a time. When you want your student to work on a new assignment, you can simply replace the current class assignment or personnal assignments.

Assign a Workbook to a Class

Select a class in the left column, and then click on Add assignment. Your school's assignment library will be displayed. If your assignment isn't yet online, you can click on "Upload workbook" to upload it to the cloud, and then assign it to your students.

All the students enrolled in that class will now see a new entry titled [Class name] Assignments in the list of training modes when they open EarMaster. When clicking on that new entry, they will be able to see and use their current assignment.

Replace the current assignment by a new assignment

When you would like your students to use a new assignment, you can remove the current assignment for the selected class by clicking on the cross-shaped icon next to the assignment's title, and then replace it by a new one by clicking on Add assignment.

Your students will see the new assignment the next time they start EarMaster.

Remove an assignment

Removing an assignment for a student or a class via the Assignment Manager will make it disappear from the home screens of the students. To remove an assignment, click on the cross-shaped icon to the right of the assignment's title, as illustrated in the screenshot above.

Multiple assignments to a Class

Currently, EarMaster only supports one assignment at a time for a class, and it is not yet possible to queue multiple assignments. But there is a workaround that allows you to assign multiple workbooks to a group of students:

If you want to add 3 assignments simultaneously to your students, create 3 classes in EarMaster Cloud, and then add the same students to all 3 classes. Now you can make one assignment for each of your classes, and since each student is a member of all 3 classes, the assignments will show up as 3 different entries in the home screen of EarMaster.

Disadvantage: if you already have many classes in your school account, then multiplying them with many assignments will give you a large number of classes.

You can name those classes in several ways, depending on your teaching strategy:

- Week 1
- Week 2
- Week 3

or 

- Harmony
- Sight-Singing
- Rhythm

Included courses

Courses and workshops available in EarMaster

Click on a course or workshop title to view its full content.

Notice that the availability of the courses and workshops listed below depends on the license that you purchased. For more information, please refer to this Version comparison.