Interactive Notation for LMS: Progress Report and Pilot Study

Abstract

Music notation is a central part of higher music education. However, today there is very limited support for interactive music notation in Learning Management Systems (LMS), which hinders LMS adoption. Therefore the advantages of LMS are not widely used in musical subjects and the advancement of new forms of teaching is hindered. We are developing an interactive web based music notation editor, which we use in highly interactive, H5P-compliant task types to ensure interoperability with a variety of different LMS. This will result in a feature-complete LMS with interactive music notation that covers content creation, communication, assessment and administration. In this paper we will concentrate on the overall architecture of the project and present some insights from a pilot usability study we performed in earlier stages.