Drilling software allows students to practice musical skills that would otherwise require a lot of one-to-one teaching, or that couldn’t easily be differentiated (we’ve all taught that class where some students can’t recognise any intervals, while others know many!). We don’t yet have many software solutions in this category, so let us know if you think we should test any others by clicking here.
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| Software name | BYOD Rating (/6) | Company | Website | Price/subscription model (AU$) | Main category | Sub-category | 2nd Main Category | 2nd Sub-category | Curriculum content 1 | Curriculum content 2 | Gamified | Native or browser-based | iOS summary | Android summary | MacOS summary | Windows summary | Chromebook summary | Linux summary | Class compliant MIDI | Class compliant audio |
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| Auralia cloud | 6 | Sibelius/Avid | Link | Subscription models, vary | Drilling | Aural Skills | Sight Reading | Musicology, theory, aural | ✗ | Both | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Musition cloud | 6 | Rising Software | Link | Subscription models, vary | Drilling | Theory (drilling) | Sight Reading | Musicology, theory, aural | ✗ | Both | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Yes | Yes | ||
| Sight Reading factory | 5 | Gracenotes, LLC | Link | Drilling | Sight Reading | Performance | Musicology, theory, aural | ✓ | Both | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | No | No | |||
| PracticeFirst | 5 | Music Sales | Link | Subscription models, vary | Drilling | Sight Reading | Performance | Practice | Performance | ✓ | Browser | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | No | Unknown |
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The software is listed in order of its “BYOD rating”. This is a very simple rating out of 6 where one “point” is given for each operating system that it will run on. The operating systems tested were Android (smartphones and tablets), iOS (iPhones and iPads), MacOS, Windows 10, ChromeOS (Chromebooks), and Linux (Ubuntu). Where a half mark is given, it suggests that the software partially worked. Details are given in the full spreadsheet (download link below).
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