Post Edited (Doug D) : 3/10/2012 7:07:04 PM (GMT-6)

Maybe I am missing something, but I have never had a student's grade lower because I made an assignment. Now they may have lower grade AFTER they submit the assignment, but not when I assign it.

Even if the students grades are lower, why aren't they retaking the assignments until they make a grade better than a "c" (for example). I always tell my students that smartmusic isn't perfect and doesn't always grade perfectly but I listen to the assignment and adjust accordingly. Last week I had a student played a C scale on flute with a b flat played each time and smartmusic counted it as a 100. (she wasn't very in tune to start with) But I corrected the problem with her and now we are good to go.

I always check my students assignments. If the student is going to take the time to do the assignment, the least I can do is take time to listen to it. And I adjust accordingly...always.

On the parents side of things (which I am also), i explain that i want mastery over recall and anything above a 95 is considered mastery. If there is a problem, then i reassign with an emailed explanation if why. Once that happens, the grade goes back to where it started from.

Maybe I am misunderstanding what you are wanting.

Ok that makes sense to me. I know you can do progress reports in PDF in the class roster and to make it electronically signed would take some doing.

Just a thought to get you going, why not email the pdf to the student through outlook, thunderbird etc and have a return receipt sent to you. This way you know when someone has looked at it.

I like where you are going with this and you need to make a feature request so they can think about it at makmusic.