Coming Soon:
- New platform for MetaPractice: web! This will allow users to use MetaPractice with their PCs, Macs and even iPads (using their iPad browser) or Android (again using the Android device’s browser)
- Import and export tab-delimited TXT files for quick creation of Templates (assignments) with predefined categories, subcategories, goals, and notes.
- Improved student connection: a teacher will be able to add new students before students have created accounts yet. Teachers and students will also be able to connect via QR codes.
- Print any page from the goalbook
- Students screen: Toggle between current card view and new list view
- Define what day of the week each student normally has their lesson on, and view student list sorted by lesson day
- Attach multiple files (or a folder) to a student’s lesson so that it creates an Attachments or Playlist entity in the lesson.
- Receive push notifications when chat messages within MetaPractice are received.
- Bug fix: reverse goal sorting malfunctions in some cases
1.0.09: Greatly improved media interface, M4A support, attach notes to categories & subcategories
- Improved media interface – got rid of Audio/Video/Image/PDF pop-up options when tapping on bottom Media button – now Media button just takes the teacher directly to the library with a single tap.
- Tapping on the media file you want adds the file to the goalbook (previously, tapping on a media file just displayed the file and you had to use its overflow options to add it to the goalbook).
- Attach media files to categories and subcategories too (not just to goals) by tapping on overflow options of those categories and subcategories.
- All media files in the goalbook now have a header that shows their filename.
- Support for M4A audio in media library
- Notes can now also be attached to categories and subcategories, not just goals.
- Show/Hide advanced goal options for teachers who just want to use MetaPractice’s most basic assignment features so that MetaPractice’s robust, powerful awesomeness doesn’t intimidate some first-time users
- Removed small print goal evaluation numbers in the upper left corner of category and subcategory headings (these were confusing and never used – they used to count how many goals below hadn’t been evaluated yet).
- “Add Subcategory” button is now indented to make intended structure more clear.
- Collapsed categories arrow now points up instead of left.
1.0.08: Event reports
- Teachers can bring up an event and display a report that shows all pieces being played in the event, a super useful tool for typing recital programs
- There is now a Notifications area in the upper left corner
- Bug fixes: Multiple file upload timeout, elapsed time since last practice was displaying time since last lesson instead, sorting goals in reverse order sometimes did not work
1.0.07: Repertoire list, startup tips
- Repertoire list pieces can now be sorted by date, display format of dates changed
- Startup tips can now be disabled in Settings
- Fixed bugs: Phone ringer off prevented audio from playing, couldn’t reposition audio playback while paused, couldn’t drag and drop subcategory into a category with existing entries, 26 other minor cosmetic and functional fixes
1.0.06: Events and other tweaks
- Teachers can add an event (class, recital, festival, competition, etc.) and specify which students will be participating in it. The event will show up automatically in students’ practice routine. Pieces (with their assigned goals) can be dragged into the event so that students know what pieces (and in what order) they’ll be playing in the event.
- Disable startup tips option added
- Repertoire pieces are now sorted by completion date, dates are now shown as YYYY-MM
- Goal options (spot, spread, etc.) now wrap instead of requiring horizontal scrolling
- Bug fixes: 28 miscellaneous fixes and tweaks
1.0.05: Quick-create goals, media library multiple file upload
- QUICK CREATE GOALS! Long-tap on the “Add Goal” button to bring up a customizable list of commonly added goals. Default goals are begin, do, finish, maintain, memorize, number measures, and secure. “Do” and “number measures” are automatically designated Once goals.
- Ability to upload multiple files at once into the media library
- Goal, subcategory and category inputs are now multiple-line inputs instead of single-line input.
- Ability to save photos/videos onto the device from the chat interface
- Media is now auto-deleted from the chat interface after 30 days
- Improved Name / Profile / Avatar settings interface
- When adding notes and/or media to the lesson, auto-scroll effect added so the user is taken to the bottom of the goalbook to see where the new item was added
- Bug fix: “Note to student” / “Note to self” labels weren’t updating after notes were edited
- Bug fix: multiple tooltips were displaying at once.
- Improved email communication with new subscribers
- Other minor cosmetic tweaks, back-end maintenance and edge case bug fixes
1.0.04: Help pages, YouTube videos, template interface, communication mechanism, repertoire list
- Improved Help pages with YouTube videos
- Improved the Template interface and created a Template button on the main screen so teachers can create templates at any time rather than just while giving a lesson
- Handling of media library file deletion when files are attached to students’ practice routines
- Added communication mechanism so that we can convey very important updates to teachers and/or students upon launching the app
- Added ability for teachers to add / edit the completion date of pieces in a student’s repertoire list
- Added 30-day expiration of files attached to chat messages.
- Bug fix: multiple tooltips were displaying at once.
1.0.03: Media library improvements
- Media library is stored in cloud instead of on the local device.
- Added support for importing MP3 audio from iCloud Drive to media library
- Added ability to move media library files into different folders
- Bug fix: new files added to media library always go into the root folder even when positioned in a subfolder
1.0.02 – 1.00: Subscription & payments
1.02: Fixed subscription bug
1.01: Tested & tweaked payment processing system
1.00: First official release
Release History – MetaPractice Student
Coming Soon:
- SIGNIFICANTLY Improved practice interface that will include animations, will show the student the same goalbook structure that the teacher sees, and will be more compact (a lot less scrolling for Advanced mode).
- Students will receive a new / updated lesson notification.
- Receive push notifications when chat messages within MetaPractice are received.
1.0.08: Notifications
- MetaPractice now has a Notifications area in the upper left corner
1.0.07: Startup tips can be disabled
1.0.06: Events
- When a teacher creates an event and indicates which students are participating in that event and which pieces the students are playing, students will see a special screen during their practice routine indicating which pieces will be played in that event.
1.0.05: Practice stats now always show for students
- Times practiced, minutes practiced, and hours since last practice stats are now always available for the student to see on their teacher card
- Multiple students in the same household can now use the same device with minimal effort to log out and log back in (uses iOS feature to store and enter passwords within MetaPractice)
- Ability to save photos/videos onto the device from the chat interface
- Improved Name / Profile / Avatar settings interface
- Media is now auto-deleted from the chat interface after 30 days
- Bug fix: When students are away for 500 or 1000 minutes and comes back to MetaPractice, MetaPractice asks the student if they would like to discard those minutes. When the student chooses “discard,” MetaPractice wasn’t discarding the minutes.
- Other minor cosmetic tweaks and edge case bug fixes
1.0.04: Help pages, YouTube videos, communication mechanism, repertoire list
Improved Help pages with YouTube videos, added communication mechanism so that we can convey very important updates to teachers and/or students upon launching the app, added ability for students to add, edit or delete repertoire pieces if the teacher enables it in Repertoire List settings.
1.0.03 – 1.00: Repertoire list
1.03: Bug fix – student was sometimes prompted to practice the same repertoire pieces each day instead of rotating them.
1.00 – 1.02 – Various trivial updates