TECHNOLOGY SPECIFICATIONS

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1 QUICK START Music Studio is a platform that delivers three unique products. To help your district evaluate the planning, materials management, and presentation tools, we encourage you to field test the sample lessons found within the ConnectED accounts provided by your sales representative. The assets that you will be working with and teaching from are brought together by the Music Studio platform. There are a wide variety of assets across the three programs, including Interactive Songs (isongs) Listening Selections Interactive Listening Maps Interactive Presentation Slides Assessment Slides ebooks... and more The speed with which you and your students can access these interactive assets relies on multiple factors, including your school system s bandwidth capabilities. In order to set you up for success with this field test, we would like to review the Music Studio Technology Specifications and offer some helpful Quick Start Tips. McGraw-Hill Education may run diagnostics in the background to collect information. These tests will not interfere with your experience, and will allow us to continuously improve the user experience. Grade 2 TECHNOLOGY SPECIFICATIONS Operating Systems and Browsers Browsers supported for Android OS: Chrome, Android (native browser) Browsers supported for ios: Safari Browsers supported for Windows (desktop): Chrome, IE, Firefox Browsers supported for Mac OS (desktop): Safari, Chrome, Firefox Browser Version Safari 7.1 or later Chrome or later Firefox 33.1 or later IE 10.0 or later Android 4.0 or later Music Studio products are built on HTML5 and do not require Flash. Grade 4 Movement Activity 1

2 QUICK START TIPS Here are some helpful tips to make sure your hardware and teaching environment are optimized for Music Studio. Deactivate your popup blocker On your ipad, select the Settings app, Safari and make sure to deselect Block Pop-ups Eliminate unnecessary tabs/browser windows. Close out of software programs that are downloaded onto your device. Close apps that may be running in the background. Enable browser caching, sometimes called cookies for ConnectED. Review the content you will present as large group instruction. Review the content (if any) you will use in one-to-one instruction [see Intended Use below] Have acoustic instruments, physical manipulatives, and printed pieces/worksheets ready to eliminate time between working on devices and other activities. INTERNET CONNECTION Make sure to check your connectivity before attempting to use Music Studio products. After you confirm that your devices are connected, you can check your connection speed at CUSTOMER SERVICE AND SUPPORT In the event that you need assistance, please contact McGraw-Hill Education Customer Service and Support. Phone: (800) Fax: (800) Hours of Operation: 8:00AM to 6:00PM Eastern Time, Monday through Friday STATEMENT OF INTENDED USE Music Studio products are designed to provide music educators with quality content to easily use in a variety of settings. We believe whole group, teacher-led instruction to be the the norm in the music classroom, and have laid out the Teacher Experience and Resources Page to reflect that belief. There are numerous resources that teachers will want to use in group and one-to-one settings, and the best way to plan for these settings is to test the resources the students will access on the devices that will be used, noting load times and instructions that will need to be communicated. Music Studio resources are media-rich. We have taken care to select high-quality recordings and images, and so some resources may not load as quickly as others. It is important to plan and test before presenting resources to students. 2

3 YOUR FIRST FEW CLICKS 1. Navigate to Enter your log in credentials. 2. Select Music Studio Teacher Edition. 3

4 3. From this page, you can view information about the authors, professional resource documents, or navigate to a program and course to evaluate. To navigate to the program lessons and/or program resources select the menu icon in the top left corner. 4. LESSONS: To explore the lessons, select Spotlight on Music, and then use the Arrow Menu to nagivate to the LESSON SAMPLER and then the desired lesson. 4

5 RESOURCES In addition to field testing the lessons, you may want to test individual resources. Using the menu icon at the top, navigate to the Resources page and filter by PROGRAM and then by GRADE or LEVEL/VOICING using the drop down menus You will then be able to filter the resources by category, for example Listening Maps or Songs and Octavos. After clicking on a category and a resource, click All Categories on the left to bring the complete menu of resource options back. 5

6 LESSON PLANNER The Lesson Planner allows you to plan to teach certain lessons over a specified period of time and populate the teacher dashboard with quick-launch lessons. Quick-launch lesson Look for the gear in the upper right hand corner. You ll find options for modifying planners, or creating a new one. 6

7 Select Create and follow the prompts. It will ask you to: Name the planner and find the course you re planning with Define the school year Identify any known vacation days Define the period you are planning for Identify the lessons you would like to plan Note: you can reorder the lessons Tip: Consider planning for shorter periods of time as you learn to use the planning feature. You can define the entire school year in Step 1, but then scale back the amount of time you plan for in Step 2. This is the page on which you will identify the lessons you would like the plan. Note that you can plan for lessons from multiple grade levels, easily find lessons from all four of the sections (Grades K-6), and reorder the lessons. If any of the lessons you have scheduled are planned to be taught that day, the lesson(s) will appear as quicklaunch lessons on your dashboard. The dashboard will always reflect the lessons planned to be presented on that particular day. 7