Online music theory tools
for teachers and students,
everywhere.

An announcement: introducing TheLessonRoom.com

D'Addario & Co. have created a new site designed to be a hub for music education: TheLessonRoom.com. At its core is a large (and growing) resource library for students and teachers — videos, articles, sheet music, and plenty of interactive content. D'Addario is partnering with eMusicTheory.com to help populate this diverse library of resources, so you'll recognize some of the interactivity there! We're thrilled, of course; it gives us a chance to join in building a larger single resource than any one site can create on their own, plus teachers using TheLessonRoom who aren't already familiar with eMusicTheory can come try us out. Their other killer feature is a world-wide teacher search: private teachers can register for free to be included in the teacher directory, where students can find you by location, instruments taught, musical style, or a score of other parameters. Many people have asked us for this kind of directory before — now through this partnership we can finally provide it! D'Addario has populated the directory with thousands of teachers who already work with them through other programs, so searches come back with plenty of local teachers even though the site is still new.

eMusicTheory Software
Use the drills without an internet connection, and give your answers using any standard MIDI instrument.

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News

| 2 September, 2009 |
More site improvements for teachers, by request:
· One larger update: We redesigned how you give assignments to students.
See the new "give assignments" page — you can link an entire student group to an entire assignment set (and any new students/assignments will be automatically linked!), or click "customize" to match specific students to specific assignments.
· Also: updated progress report page to show details on assignment sets.

As always, try out the changes and pass on your suggestions for further improvement!

| 22 August, 2009 |
We weren't planning to update the drills quite yet, but a few bugs turned up that needed to be fixed ASAP:
· Counterpoint strict rules: the drill wasn't allowing a step in the same direction after a leap of a 3rd.
· In a few of the drills, it was possible to get an error (though the score wouldn't be lost) if answering a question in the last second of the countdown.

We also made some general site improvements:
· Added a proper "about" page (why be so mysterious?)
· More info on the "contact" page: added mailing address and fax/voicemail numbers.
· If your session times out (as a teacher or student), now after you sign in again you'll be sent back to where you were (submitting a score, saving changes, etc.) instead of just sent to the homepage. This also means you can bookmark pages in the signed-in parts of the site!

...and specifically for teachers:
· Smarter handling of moving students when there's no other group to move them to.
· Tweak to number handling in exports to avoid Excel warnings.
· Progress report: include next student button at the top of the page as well, for teachers with a lot of assignments.
· Allow deleting NON-test scores (with a warning displayed, because this affects the student).
· Change student view of assignments: if the "due date" assignments are from more than one assignment set, show the name.

| 11 August, 2009 |
There are various drill changes in testing still... In the meantime, site improvements for teachers:
· You can now export your student lists (MS Excel format), as well as a score summary report for each assignment set. Try them out and tell us if you'd like other/more data!
· Now we save your choices for sorting scores, and deleting assignment sets/student groups, so you don't have to keep re-choosing these.
· Assignment sets now listed in alphabetical order for both students and teachers.

(previous updates)