No matter what you're teaching, you might find the course mapper useful. It will plot out each class meeting with just a few clicks and give you a reusable template that can work for years to come. Stop reinventing the wheel!
Teaching an introductory theory course? You are in the right place! Anyone can use the theory exercises but if you use the link generator, you can make custom links for brightspace and specify the level of difficulty. As long as your students use these links, they will get unique codes upon completion of the assignments which they can paste as text submissions. Then you can use the OML decoder to check every submission at once.
Also check out the circle of fifths. Click anywhere to switch clefs and shift + click to hide the keys for in-class exercises. How about a keyboard that they can use to highlight notes and calculate intervals? Done!
Let's see, what else... oh! They can never see what we're playing on the piano can they? Plug in a midi keyboard and use this stripped-down version of the OML piano app. If your keyboard has sound, mute the audio from the browser (top right).
Check out the ordering / matching games to encourage some participation in class. Solicit a volunteer and ask them to complete the exercise by getting help from the class. They always seem to know more than they think once there is a collective effort.
This one is really fun. Take any youtube video and turn it into an in-class exercise. Will they be trying to figure out the era, composer, texture? Maybe it will be an exercise to identify the key per the 17th century doctrine of affections (that one's a little niche I realize). Maybe it's none of those things and you just want to use a youtube video without advertising all of you're watching habits to your class like this one that can be used in a discussion on timbre. Can you identify the instrument from listening? That's timbre! Create your links here and feel free to include the start time stuff that youtube generates when you copy the link. It will observe those.
This is the trick isn't it? Every music app on OML was designed to make music accessible and fun. How about a lecture on Daphne Oram where students get to use a web version of the oramics machine? A discussion about genre using the subgenre generator, a lesson about rhythm where students come up and make beats with the OML beat sequencer. This is a long list and you can explore all of these apps from the homepage. How you use them is up to you!