MuseScore for education.
Hi, I wonder if there are plans to make musescore for education/teachers like Flat (flat.io) and noteflight learn (noteflight.com/learn) already do.
I'm a Teacher in a public school so my school wold not pay for a subscription service, all the expenses run by myself :(
So I would be willing to be able to pay a subscription for having an educational space for my courses and my students to share them the contents created with musescore and they can read it cross multiplatforms no edit files but read (android, ios, windows, macos, chormebook, amazon devices)
Hope this feature could be possible, I don't wanna leave musescore and adopt other platforms as I above mentioned neither other apps like Notion mobile that now its free and multiplatform.
Thank you.
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At least for sharing files with your students, you might be able to manage with Google Drive, which is a downloadable app on many devices but can also be accessed via a web browser and is thus accessible from any internet-capable device. A free Google account includes 15 GB of data, which should fill up quite slowly if all that's uploaded is sheet music files, PDFs, and MP3 files — and if that isn't enough, then for $12 a month you can upgrade to a total of 2 TB.
Musescore allows you to export scores as PDF files, which are generally read-only. In addition, you can export a score as .mp3 audio so they can hear it. These can be uploaded to a Google Drive folder that can be shared with students so they can access them, even if they don't have an account themselves.
If they do have an account, then you can create a folder for each student that only you and the intended student can access, allowing them to share files directly with you. Alternatively (or additionally), you can create a common folder all of them can access, which enables them to share files among each other.
In reply to At least for sharing files… by jfmusicaddict
yes, that's how he's been doing it up to now. But I mean having a space on musescore.com where you can have your private space and add/remove students by class or course and they can access the class material from their devices (any platform).
In reply to At least for sharing files… by jfmusicaddict
Thanks for an interesting information
You don't have to have a paid account to be able to share scores on the .com site. But there is no MuseScore notation software for android or ipad. So you should be able to figure out if Google Drive is a fit for you.
In reply to You don't have to have a… by bobjp
and for now flat.io and noteflight learn do, but it would be great if musescore.com could have this feature since for now it is the music notation software that best suits my needs.
Do you know flat or noteflight? if you are a teacher you would consider them because they are a great Tools, however musescore has features that now make me wonder if they would ever consider adding the private spaces/classrooms.
In reply to and for now flat.io and… by Telodigotodo
It's not really clear here if you are talking about the actual notation software, or about some sort of score-sharing service. The MuseScore music notation softare is orders of magnitude more sophisticated than Noteflight or flat.io, but indeed, the associated commercial score-sharing service on musescore.com isn't necessarily optimized for educational use. You can create private groups, though, which allow mostly the same things, or simply use your existing LMS to have people upload their scores, which is what I normally do with my students.
Anyhow, if your questions are about the score-sharing website musescore.com, best to ask over there on that site.
In reply to It's not really clear here… by Marc Sabatella
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In reply to Totally agree with you. An… by lawrencecarol
MuseScore Studio is education focused, IMO.
It is free (good "for teachers on a tight budget"). It is "cross-platform", works on Windows, Mac, and several (all?) flavors of Linux. It does not have versions for mobile platforms now nor in the future.
It does not have a sharing option built-in, but either the free version of musescore.com or the free version of any of several file-sharing platforms (Google Drive, DropBox, etc.) could be used for score sharing. For that matter, simply emailing scores to and from your students could be used for score sharing.