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I absolutely love GradeCam. I've used it for years and it's totally changed my teaching practices. Instant feedback for students and amazing analytics of assessments. Ideal for common assessments within a team. It would be unstoppable if there was a student app that kids could use to take assessments (formative or summative) or even use as a clicker (SRS). Then I could truly go paperless!!! PLEASE DO THIS! :)

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‎Grade students' paper assignments using a mobile camera and instantly know what your students know. GradeCam Go! works in concert with our web application, which currently scores and collects over 4 million students assignments, and transfers scores directly into any electronic gradebook. A lower-...

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Plickers lets you poll your class for free, without the need for student devices. Just give each student a card (a "paper clicker"), and use your iPhone/iPad to scan them to do instant checks-for-understanding, exit tickets, and impromptu polls. Best of all, your data is automatically saved, student-by-student, at plickers.com.

Happy teaching!

- updated Now Playing question launchpad with support for new content types
- performance improvements
- bug fixes

Use it almost daily for exit slips!

This is a perfect way to get a quick read on your students' understanding. Data drives my teaching and Plickers is so much easier as I deal with the tech part, and they don't have to log in or anything. The only downside is that my questions from last year that contained images won't load this year online. The questions stored in my library from last year work, but bot the attached images. Other than that- this is great!

Plickers gone bad!:(

I loved Plickers before the update. It was such an easy use of formative assessment because I could see the student data as I scanned with the answer and student name popping up. Now it just tells me they got it wrong. I like to see in real time the mistakes they are making so I can address them in our discussion about the question. Before the update Plickers had a bar graph that was a fabulous representation for the students to see and it was large enough the kids could see it from anywhere in the room. The graph included now does not visually represent the data for the students or show it large enough they can see it. Now when displayed the questions are huge but the answers are so tiny the students in the back of my room can not see them at all. The students had to move closer to the board and expressed frustration and that they no longer enjoyed Plickers. (So sad because they begged for it before)

I created a set of questions on the computer and can not find it anywhere in my library. It was so much easier to manipulate before this recent update.

Please fix this so I can go back to using it to glean immediately feedback for my classroom and so the kids will enjoy it again.

Been using for years

When you need to assess informal or formally this is great for fast results. Once you set up subjects you can reuse for years. Great for classroom control in difficult classes. As all students have to participate every kid is on the horse at for every question.
For I class fun questions you can ask the question and then see who got right and wrong for non graded assessments and then peer pressure to hear your neighbor makes it a competition but in nice way.

Use at closure of activity for understanding check. It takes a couple of tries to get out and paste from assessment banks into system. But once in you can reuse and call up in a minute or two for use. I select possible question for use during day or week in advance for 6 classes in under 30 minutes. Then I can use on the fly in class as needed and periodic assessments.

Good for group work. Put a question for discussion in the test bank and then have the students discuss before answering. You can also see who is faking participation that way.

Just wish I could upload whole text banks rather than cut and paste but small price to pay for quality and free program.

Mike

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2014 award winner of Best Concert Band/Orchestra Teaching Tool by School and Band Orchestra magazine, SmartMusic is interactive music learning software that pushes you to play your best. This app gives you unlimited access to SmartMusic's extensive repertoire library, including over 50 method books, nearly 50,000 skill building exercises and a combined 22,000+ solo and ensemble titles by major publishers such as Alfred, Barnhouse, Belwin, Hal Leonard, Kjos, and others. Full repertoire access requires a SmartMusic account with access to a valid subscription.

This app combines many of the great practice features available through your SmartMusic subscription with the convenience of your iPad. What can you do with SmartMusic?

* Open sheet music on screen for 22,000+ solo and ensemble titles, including repertoire for brass, percussion, strings, woodwinds and voice with accompaniment.
* Practice with over 70 method books and nearly 50,000 skill building exercises.
* Record and listen to your performance.
* See your successes and areas for improvement, and loop difficult passages.
* If used in an educational setting, students can receive, review, and submit SmartMusic-created assignments as well as custom assignments made with Finale-created accompaniments and MP3 audio files.

Practice more, build skills, and gain confidence with SmartMusic. Play along with musical accompaniment while SmartMusic scores your performance. Download the SmartMusic app today and begin to experience the power of interactive practice.

* Added an instrument selection to address problem where some assignments could not be opened by students.
* Added Retina display support for 4th Gen iPads.
* Fixed a problem where on-screen keyboard covered up errors during login.
* Fixed a problem with start and stop points after changing your instrument.
* Fixed a problem where stop and stop points were not updated when listening to takes.
* Fixed a transposition bug with Marimba and Vibraphone in exercises.
* Fixed the app from hanging when changing instrument part back to the default.
* Fixed the crash when tapping stop take in some situations.
* Fixed issues around transposition and drawing of SMPX assignments.
* Misc. interface improvements for the iPad Pro

The worst educational software for school band class

I agree with some reviewers - this software was born with some really good ideas. If it is functional perfectly, I will not hesitate to give it the highest rate. Unfortunately, it has some really bad defects which makes I wish it has never been brought to this world. The band director of my child uses this software to automatically grade his students' performance. The software, no matter on which OS, always have problem syncing the input with its music., and often missing notes or mis-recognizing the notes when collecting them from the input. As a result, students really have trouble to get perfect score even they play the pieces totally correctly. My child almost struggles every week and plays hundreds of time just for catching a small chance the software behaves normally to give him the correct score. I did some test and found the software is far from robust in recognizing sound from real instruments. (Music from midi device seems OK for its rating system.) I think it might be ok for amateur players to do excise with this software, but please remove the rating system to avoid misleading teachers and students. The software makers should be shamed on themselves for releasing such a defective educational software which is torching thousands of students everyday.

Great concept, poorly executed

I love that SmartMusic gives me access to such a vast library of music, even if it is mostly modern arrangements. I love that I get to play with a band, even when I'm by myself. I love it on the PC, that is, not this app. With the speakers at maximum volume, I hear the starting metronome clicks painfully loud but barely hear the band. That would be bearable if not for the horrid, awful, terrible, misleading green bar that is supposed to give me a visual indication of the beat (you know, like the conductor we would have in a real band), but it is always a fraction of a beat behind, sometimes more than a full beat behind in a fast tempo. The only way to stay on beat is to close my eyes to tune out the green bar...but then I can't see the notes! This is true on the PC version too but more bearable because I can crank up the volume of the accompaniment and hear the beat. Much as it pains me, I can't recommend this app and I suggest that music teachers stop requiring it. It only teaches the bad habit of racing ahead of the conducted beat.

If Only It Wasn't Required.....

This app is great!.....in theory. The idea of being able to play with a band is great. It helps especially for those who struggle with playing on their own or without the support of their fellow players. There's a wide variety of songs to pick from, which makes the app much better than it could've been.

That's where the compliments stop.

This app is buggy, glitchy, and oftentimes shuts down in the middle of a recording. The green bar that shows when to play is oftentimes far behind, the app picks up notes wrong, and makes it nearly impossible to hear the band that is what makes this app so desirable in the first place!

If I became a better clarinetist every time this app crashed and sent me back to the home screen, I wouldn't need it in the first place.

Even my band teacher agrees this app is bad quality. But since it's more convenient than having his email account overflow with videos of students playing instruments, he chooses Smart Music.

In the end, I wouldn't download this app unless it's absolutely required for classwork.

Information

Compatibility

Requires iOS 9.0 or later. Compatible with iPad.

Copyright

© 1993-2016 MakeMusic, Inc.

Family Sharing

With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.

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Sight Reading Factory makes practicing the important skill of sight reading quick, easy, effective and fun! This app composes music instantly and on-demand, providing musicians with a virtually unlimited supply of sight reading material. There are multiple levels of difficulty and the exercises can even be customized exactly to the needs of the musician. Sight Reading Factory is very versatile and can be used by musicians of all ages and abilities including music educators, music students, casual musicians and even professional musicians. Sight reading exercises can be generated for piano, guitar, voice, woodwinds, brass, strings, percussion and even full ensembles.

Teachers and students can also use the built-in classroom management and assignments feature for assessment. Teachers can organize students into classes/groups and create assignments for them. Students complete assignments by generating a sight reading exercise and recording themselves performing the exercise. The assignment can then be submitted back to the teacher to grade and leave feedback.

Version 1.23

Your audio playback settings are now remembered between sessions.
There is now a way to change settings on the music page.
Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Awesome companion app to the website!

This app is AWESOME! Just what I was looking for. Fully customizable for many instrument types, rhythms, intervals, etc. All custom settings can be saved for quick future use. Yes, you need to pay a yearly subscription fee from their website. But it's totally worth the price! After setting up your melody parameters all it takes is a single tap to generate a whole new melody! You can do this over and over again. Just tap once and boom! A new melody. This is perfect for sight reading practice. And if you think about it, the yearly fee is a lot cheaper than constantly buying new music for practice.

Can't create account in app

Our chorus director recommended this app, so I'm sure it's just what my son needs and that's why I gave it three stars rather than 1. While this may be a great app, there's no way to create an account in the app! For devices that have Safari disabled for the protection of our kids, setting up an account becomes rather inconvenient. It's not a deal breaker, but most apps that need an account have a way to do that in app. It's pretty odd that there's not even a link to do that. I'll be trying another app rather than trying to figure out where to go online to create an account.

Great app BUT...

I use this almost everyday for 40 minutes and I can already tell the improvement but the biggest con is that it doesn't have some sort of feature where you can record yourself doing it to a metronome before listening to the answer. Sometimes I find myself hesitating and reacting after the rhythm or note is played but I think it would be better to really know if you have it down. I try to do it before to see if I got it but when I listen back it's easy to forget what I did.

Information

Compatibility

Requires iOS 9.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Copyright

© 2018 GraceNotes LLC

Family Sharing

With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.

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