3 essential NewzikEducation functions for your music lessons

Music can be learned at any age, but today many teachers are using new technologies to make their music teaching more interactive and better adapted to the digital age. Practices are evolving, and online music learning tools are multiplying. Such is the case with the collaborative digital platform NewzikEducation, which enables teachers and students to share and deepen their musical knowledge online, at any time and from any place.

Real-time annotations, exercises and collaborative sharing: Newzik gives you a detailed presentation of the tools on this interactive digital platform designed to help students develop their musical skills while maintaining their motivation and commitment!

A collaborative digital platform for distance music teaching

Increasingly widespread, distance learning is bringing music education back into the mainstream for young students and adults alike.

Since the period of the COVID pandemic and even before that, students, faced with increasingly busy schedules, have begun to adapt to new ways of learning music. As the opportunities for playing, teaching and composing have increased tenfold in recent years, digital technology has taken on a central role, particularly in music training.

The pandemic has made face-to-face group practice much more complex, highlighting the need to find solutions to enable students to rehearse remotely, online. How can students and teachers rehearse and collaborate if they can't be together? It's in this context that tools such as NewzikEducation have emerged. Like NewzikEnsemble, which enables orchestras, ensembles and operas to collaborate with each other online, NewzikEducation is a digital platform created to facilitate music education and the exchange of knowledge between teachers and students at a distance.

Interactive, the digital platform enables teachers toannotate their students' scores in real time, as well as controlling exercises accompanied by audio or video, while measuring their progress remotely.

Good reasons to use NewzikEducation's tools to teach music online

Make music exercises more fun and interactive

A number of studies have shown that interactive music education stimulates students' learning, helps them progress and keeps them motivated. And thanks to tools like digital sheet music, music exercises can be enriched with audio and video recordings. Teachers can then select resources tailored to their students' tastes from suitable YouTube videos.

Teachers can also self-record and share an audio extract with their students to show them an example. And, once the recording is complete, it is possible to modify the speed and tonality of the extract before transposing it .

With just a few clicks and a simple PDF score, your students can work on an exercise you've shared with them, with tempo and tonality customized to suit their level.

NewzikEducation provides a musical education that encourages autonomy and self-creation!

✅ Tried and tested: middle school music teacher, Nicolas Olivier shares exercises and games with his students based on their cultural and musical preferences.. Thanks to a selection of fun tools and applications, Nicolas has noticed in particular that his young students are more independent in their learning!

Communicating with students at all times

In addition to enabling teachers to share exercises with their students in just a few minutes, the NewzikEducation platform offers interactive tools so that they can communicate with each other in real time.

Corrections, annotations on interactive scores and added recordings: as you can see, it's possible to share information in real time with students, wherever they are. This is a real plus when it comes to keeping in touch with students in parallel with face-to-face music lessons or videoconferences.

To make it easier for students to access shared content, teachers can create folders for each "project", adding the scores and media of their choice. All members of a "project" then have real-time access to the content shared in the folder, and can access it from computers, iPad tablets or even iPhone smartphones.

With easy access to content shared by their music teacher, students can feel a bit like they're in a real classroom, but online! In this way, NewzikEducation recreates the virtual classroom cohesion that is key to motivating students.

Optimize the organization of your music education classes

No more music exercises printed on loose-leaf paper, no more binders lost at the back of the office: with NewzikEducation, teachers can organize their lessons and find all their tools in a secure digital cloud.

Teachers can then organize their scores and course materials in one place, accessible to all students at all times.

Updates (new score versions, audio and video files, annotations) are automatically shared with guest students.

Preparing music lessons and collecting student assignments is therefore much smoother. On top of this, your teaching material is securely stored on the Newzik Cloud, so you don't lose your work.

Short of ideas to boost your online music teaching? Discover our tips on how to use digital sheet music to run music lessons at a distance. !

3 NewzikEducation functions for creating interactive music lessons

1. Remote score annotation

NewzikEducation's collaborative annotation feature enables teachers and students to work on the same scores in real time. Teachers can add comments, tips and corrections directly to the shared digital sheet music .

This annotation function is enabled by several tools:

• Players: this feature allows audio or video recordings to be added directly to the scores, helping students to listen to or see examples to better understand the instructions. This type of tool enriches music education, offering visual or audio accompaniment to complement the annotations.

• Layers: this enables students to superimpose several levels of comments or annotations on the same score, without mixing them up. For example, one layer may be reserved for theoretical annotations, while another may contain technical indications specific to an audio extract. Platform users can activate or deactivate these layers according to their needs: a 100% personalized learning experience!

• Note creation: also available in the standard Newzik application, the note allows you to add comments and remarks to a digital sheet music.

2. Interactive exercises to practice anywhere, anytime

The NewzikEducation platform enables teachers to create interactive exercises and share them online with their students. These exercises can be completed at any time and according to each student's motivation, allowing total flexibility in learning music education.

Taking advantage of adapted digital resources stimulates students, who can record themselves remotely and independently via the NewzikEducation platform. Their video or audio recordings are stored in a collaborative folder accessible to the teacher. The teacher can then consult the students' work at any time online and listen to the exercises. He or she can then provide personalized feedback directly on the platform, encouraging regular, independent practice among students.

Thanks to their access to files, students can practice and submit their work whenever they like, without the constraints of a fixed timetable.

3. Collaborative sharing of resources to connect with students

Sharing digital music resources is at the heart of the NewzikEducation collaborative tool. The platform enables seamless communication between teachers and students, even online:

• Teachers can store all the files they need for their musical education, whether scores, recordings or multimedia files, in shared folders. Each student has access to his or her own folder, where he or she can find all the learning resources provided by their teacher.

• The platform enables teachers to monitor students' progress on an ongoing basis. By centralizing all files and recordings, teachers can quickly identify improvements or difficulties encountered by each student. This simplified management of teaching tools and documents promotes better organization and more effective follow-up.

• Finally, NewzikEducation offers integrated communication tools for online and remote exchanges with students. Teachers can comment directly on recordings, send messages or schedule online coaching sessions. This enables them to maintain a strong pedagogical link, even outside face-to-face lessons.

🎼 Want to launch a collaborative remote music lesson project with your students? Don't waste any time! Contact our teams today to adapt your teaching and use the NewzikEducation digital platform.