The Virtual Instruments don't sound very good, but they work and sound as well as most MIDI instruments. They have to be initially downloaded, but that only takes 1 or 2 minutes per instrument on a 56k modem. One problem I noticed is that the instruments don't play legato. They play in a non-legato touch that sounds computereze. It would sound more musical if the type of articulation could be selected in the music score, e.g. legato, staccato, accented, portato.
Teachers can create templates for each type of assignment.
In addition to composition and music theory assignments, teachers can create an online practice room. Choral students can upload an accompaniment part to songs and sing along with it, or instrumental students can practice playing along with the music as they mute their part, change the tempo, or transpose the key. Lesson Library Using the Lesson Library, teachers can import pre-existing lessons and make them available to their students. They can share lesson ideas with other teachers by making their own lessons public in the Lesson Library. The National Association of Music Education has adopted NotationStation as the industry standard online platform for dissemination and development of National Standards-based music curriculum including MENC Strategies for Teaching .