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Free SmartMusic Inbox App Rocks the iPad

by Scott Yoho 10. January 2012 04:15

Have an iPad? A new version of the SmartMusic Inbox app is now available that puts the iPad’s added real estate to great advantage.

If you’re not yet familiar with the SmartMusic Inbox, it’s a free mobile app, created for SmartMusic educators. It provides an alternative means to review, grade, and comment on student assignments any time, any place.

Like its predecessor, the latest Inbox app also supports Android® and Apple® smart phones as well as the iPod touch®, while adding fully dedicated support for iPad, including:

A new editing view that allows educators to see and hear student performances simultaneously.
A landscape view displaying the list of Inbox items and the details of a selected assignment at the same time.
An improved interface that automatically removes graded assignments from the Inbox list and cues up the next assignment in the list.
Additional improvements including academic year selection, and iOS 5.0 compatibility.

The new SmartMusic inbox app is available now on the App Store and in Android Market.

Let us know how it’s working for you by clicking on “Comments” below.

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Tags: ipad, ios, android, inbox, app, mobile, gradebook

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Comments

1/8/2012 6:51:44 AM #

Thanks to the SmartMusic and Finale 2012a updates on 12/22/2011, I am finally able to create vocal assessments for SmartMusic.  I'm in the process of getting our 135 choir students to use SmartMusic for an initial SmartMusic assessment.  Truthfully, I had hoped that we would be able to start the year off with a pre-test, knowing that SmartMusic had new vocal capabilities.  Unfortunately, that wasn't the case.

I wanted to comment on the iPad app...it works very well.  I'm noticing that there's a little bug...comments and scores I leave in the "inbox" area disappear if I pull up the student after grading them.  However, if I go online, the comment is still there.

That's really a minor (MINOR) problem...what a great app...and an incredible resource for singers and their teachers (not just instrumentalists).  I'll be writing a full blog post about this later so I don't want to talk any more about it at this time.

Chris Russell