The lesson is the key element of the Independent Online Musician learning experience.  Here you will find supplimentary teaching materials, a record of what took place in the lesson and what is set as work to prepare for the next lesson.  This means the student has a permanent history of their lessons.  The student can search and go through past lessons to be reminded of the what their teacher has been writing to encourge continued development.

Independent Online Musician uses technology to enable media-rich lessons.  This means your teacher can embed links to video and audio, add pictures and other graphics, attach documents to be dowloaded and more.  Whether you are taking an adhoc approach to your music lessons or a more formal pproach based on a set syllabus with a series of pre-planned lessons, the interface is flexible enough to allow both approaches.

The Lesson consists of the following sections:

• Lesson Header: this shows the lesson id, subject duration, date / time, location and attendance.  See Lesson Rules for an explanation of the attendance statuses
• Lesson Content: this is the main content area, which can show pre-planned content such as text, images, links to audio or video, tables, diagrams etc, or it can just be where the teacher records what took place in the lesson when the lessons are less formal, for example, "Looked at the 1st movement of the Bach Partita, C minor scale, Quantz Study no. 4.
• Documents:  links to attached documents and other files for download by the student
• Teacher Notes: notes to guide the student in their continued development.  This may be instructions such as "remember to put in breath marks on your scores", or "try and keep the airflow steady".  The value of these notes should not be underestimated and serve as information coming from the teacher's experience and expertise.  This is the constructive criticism and solutions to problems, key to any musical learning experiece.
• Homework: what the teacher requests you to work on for the next lesson.  No need to commit anything to memory or to search for that missing lesson notebook!

See Lesson Rules for the cancellation and missed-lesson policy.