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Student Experience

Students — mostly children checking a phone — get three cards. The student menu is [Calendar] [Materials] [Profile photo].

Note that many students cannot sign in at all: a child with no email has no login, and their parents see everything on their behalf. The student experience exists for students old enough to use it — including adult students, who are simply users with a student profile of their own.

The homepage

  1. Notes from Your Last Class — the first thing under the greeting: the full note thread from the student’s most recent class (today’s included), with light-green Notes & Materials and “See notes from all classes.” buttons. A white “See all notes” button also sits at the top right of the page. Both open one continuous chronological chat of every note and material the student has, each class marked only by a slim date separator the way messaging apps mark days. What’s visible first is the most relevant thing — notes on the upcoming lesson closest to today — with earlier history collapsed behind a “View notes from previous lessons” button that expands it above, in order.
  2. Next Lesson / Upcoming Lessons — when and where, including breaks: inactive semester_location_dates on the student’s weekday surface as “Holiday Week” instead of a silent gap. The Next Lesson card carries its notes-and-materials thread inline — the chat bubbles, the add-a-note box, and the materials button sit right on the card, no modal needed.
  3. My Materials — every resource attached to this semester’s lessons, in chronological order of the lesson it came from — the semester’s accumulated sheet music, recordings, and links in one place.

Notes-related buttons are light green throughout, so “where the notes live” reads at a glance on every card.

Every lesson, past or upcoming, opens its notes and materials in a modal. Notes render as light-green chat bubbles — the thread reads like a conversation — and the student can add both notes and materials of their own (a practice recording, a link), on the same terms as their teacher and parents (see Lesson Notes & Resources). After adding, the page refreshes itself when the modal closes, so a lesson’s Notes & Materials button appears immediately.