Practice Assignments

Practice assignments are the weekly work you set for a student from the lesson surface. They are not the same as repertoire: repertoire is the long-running list of pieces a student is learning, while a practice assignment is the short list of items - pieces, exercises, videos, and goals - to work on until the next lesson. A practice item can point at a repertoire piece, but the two are managed separately.

Where assignments live

The practice widget is part of the Lesson Note Editor on each scheduled lesson. Until you wrap up the lesson, it sits collapsed as "Practice - assigned at wrap-up. Tap to open early." - tap it to open the widget before wrap-up. When open, its header reads "Practice · next week", because the work you set applies to the coming week.

Adding items

Add opens five item types, each with its own default target and cadence:

A few rules shape the types:

• Type and the linked piece are fixed after an item is created. To change them, delete the item and add a new one.
• Piece offers only the student's active repertoire. If the piece is not there yet, assign it in the student's Repertoire tab (or the lesson rail) first, then add the practice item.
• Watch a video needs a clip - either an existing composition video clip or one you upload.

Setting a target and cadence

Tapping an item opens its editor:

• Title and an optional note.
• Target - a segmented choice of Time, Reps, or None, with preset chips and a stepper.
• How often - the cadence chips: No set days, By next lesson, Daily, or n× per week.

Reorder items by dragging the grip on desktop or long-pressing on touch. Delete an item with the Delete button in its editor, or by swiping the row left on touch.

When students see the work

These behaviours are how the family experiences what you set:

• A practice item is visible to the family as soon as you add it - even while the lesson note is still a draft, and even if you never share the note. Visibility does not wait for wrap-up or sharing. (A Watch a video item with no clip yet is the one exception: it stays hidden from the family until it has a clip.)
• At wrap-up, Trio carries the work forward. When the student has a previous assignment, its items are copied into the new week's assignment with completion cleared, and the widget caption reads "Carried from last week". Edit the carried list freely.

How items are completed

There are two ways an assignment item gets marked done, and they behave differently:

• Tapping a checklist item on the Practice page marks it done at once, and tapping it again clears it.
• Checking items in the Log practice dialog records what you practiced in that session. It does not mark an item done by itself - it counts toward the automatic rule below.

Trio marks an item done automatically when your logged practice covers enough different days in the current studio week (Monday to Sunday):

• Daily needs 7 days.
• "n× per week" needs n days.
• "By next lesson" needs the first day.
• "No set days" is never automatic - it is done only by tapping.

Minute and count targets such as "20 min" or "3×" are guidance for a single session; they do not change whether an item is done. Completion resets at the start of each week.

Reviewing how students follow along

Open the student's profile and its Practice Log tab to review the work between lessons:

• Completed Assignments - a timeline of items the student has finished.
• Practice videos - submitted clips with inline playback; you can leave one comment per clip (a single comment, not a thread).
• Practice History - the student's logged sessions, with dates, minutes, instrument, and notes.

On the lesson surface, the practice rail shows each item's progress as an X/7 distinct-days-practiced count for the week, so you can see at a glance how consistently a student worked on it.

Related

• Lesson Note Editor - where the practice widget lives
• Repertoire - the pieces a Piece item links to
• Family Practice Tracking - what families see on their Practice page