New Feature for Chatty Chapters

I am working on a new feature for chatty-chapters.click. I had been wanting to implement a feature that would require students to engage with music in some way, that was not possible, or at least not convenient, to do in Canvas LMS.

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The new feature will allow the instructor to create listening assignments, where they can create markers for musical form or musical events. Then the student will be tasked with labeling the musical events. There are many ways to do this with work-arounds in Canvas, but I think that I can make a UI that could help to make this a bit more practical for both the instructor and the student.

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Two other features related to listening that I'd like to work on are a 'tap the beat' and 'choose the tonic'. I think that it would be a fun challenge, to try and get non-music-major students to engage in the music by tapping the beat of the song, and trying to hear the home key, or tonic of a given song.

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In discussing this feature with another developer, I am convinced that it would be best to make the UI as easy and practical as possible. So, for the time being, I will likely use input fields, and have the student/instructor input a time, or time range, to mark the musical event. In the future, I envision this to be a drag and drop feature.

Now, to make it happen!