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SRF for High-Quality Student Data Assessment

Posted by Colleen Crafton on Oct 4, 2024

Unlocking Precision: How SRF’s Auto-Assessment Delivers High-Quality Student Data for Music Educators...

Effortless Grading with Auto Assessment in Assignments

Posted by Don Crafton on Sep 3, 2024

Save time and give your students instant, engaging feedback with this new integration...

Streamline Your Music Auditions with Snap Audition and Sight Reading Factory Integration

Posted by Don Crafton on Aug 22, 2024

You can now have asynchronous live auditions that include sight reading!...

Introducing: Auto Assessment

Posted by Don Crafton on Jun 11, 2024

Introducing: Auto Assessment...

So, Your Ensemble Isn't Ready

Posted by Colleen Crafton on Apr 24, 2024

What To Do If Your Ensemble Is Not Ready To Perform...

Choosing Sight Reading Material For Auditions

Posted by Colleen Crafton on Mar 18, 2024

How To Choose Criteria for Sight Reading at Auditions...

Enhancing Musical Mastery: Integrating Sight Reading Factory into Community Music Schools and Private Studios

Posted by Colleen Crafton on Feb 20, 2024

Sight Reading Factory for the Private Studio...

Using SRF to Augment Your Beginning Band Method Books

Posted by Nancy Thornock on Jan 23, 2024

Supplement Your Beginning Band Method Book with SRF...

Sight Reading Factory:The Perfect Companion to Group Piano

Posted by Colleen Crafton on Nov 4, 2023

Effective Ways to use Sight Reading Factory in Group Piano Classes...

State/Organizational Standards on SRF: What to do if yours isn’t listed

Posted by Nancy Thornock on Oct 9, 2023

Is your State or Organizational Standard found on SRF?...

Sight Reading Factory: Unveiling Accessibility

Posted by Colleen Crafton on Sep 27, 2023

Accessibility within Sight Reading Factory...

The Simplest Way to Incorporate Sight Reading Factory into Your Daily Routine

Posted by Nancy Thornock on Aug 30, 2023

An Easy Guide to Integrating Sight Reading Factory into Your Everyday Practice...

Fresh Ideas for using Sight Reading Factory in the Elementary Music Classroom

Posted by Colleen Crafton on Jul 6, 2023

Sight Reading Factory for the Elementary Music Classroom...

Strategies For Keeping Your Music Students Engaged Over the Summer.

Posted by Nancy Thornock on Jun 10, 2023

Keep the Music Coming: Summer Retention Ideas for your Students...

End of year game ideas for the music classroom!

Posted by Colleen Crafton on May 2, 2023

Check out these fun SRF activities to finish out the school year!...

5 Skills Every Successful Musician Needs

Posted by Nancy Thornock on Nov 18, 2022

Developing these critical skills is key to a smooth path towards a musical career...

Substitute Plans for High School Choir

Posted by Colleen Crafton on Sep 7, 2022

Need sub plans? Check out some refreshing ideas for your HS choir...

Substitute Plans for High School Band and Orchestra

Posted by Colleen Crafton on Sep 7, 2022

Refresh your HS instrumental substitute plans with some new tips and tricks...

Introducing Live Practice

Posted by Colleen Crafton on Aug 1, 2022

Meet the revolutionary new way to practice sight reading as an ensemble...

Tools for Music Teachers

Posted by Colleen Crafton on Jul 11, 2022

Tools for Music Teachers - Everything you need to set up your music classroom...

SRF & Schoology Integration

Posted by Don Crafton on Dec 17, 2021

SRF now has a Schoology integration!...

SRF & Google Classroom Integration

Posted by Don Crafton on Oct 18, 2021

SRF now has a Google Classroom integration!...

Practice Logs and Class Practice Settings

Posted by Don Crafton on Mar 29, 2021

The student practice experience has been greatly enhanced with our new Practice Log and Class Practice Settings features....

Sight Reading Factory 2019 Webinar

Posted by Don Crafton on Sep 5, 2019

We recently did a live webinar highlighting exciting updates, improvements, and new features. View a recording of the webinar here...

New Music Page Updates

Posted by Don Crafton on May 11, 2019

Check out our latest improvements to the new music page and new features we've added to the site...

Try the new Sight Reading Factory beta!

Posted by Adam Rabung on Jan 2, 2019

The new and improved mixer and music pages feature a better mobile experience, new features, music that scales and much more...

Summer 2018 Updates

Posted by Don Crafton on Jun 29, 2018

New time signatures, new LMS features and a new state standard...

Select your own custom set of key and time signatures

Posted by Don Crafton on Apr 22, 2018

You can now select your own custom set of key and time signatures...

Updated privacy policy

Posted by Adam Rabung on Sep 22, 2017

We've updated our privacy policy...

Integrating Music Standards

Posted by Don Crafton on Jul 11, 2017

Our latest release features integration of recently added music organization standards...

Virginia Choral Directors Association Sight Reading

Posted by Don Crafton on Mar 13, 2017

Virginia choral directors can now generate sight reading aligned with the VCDA ensemble assessment criteria and state chorus audition...

2017 Survey Results

Posted by Don Crafton on Feb 1, 2017

The results are in! We received great scores but there's still plenty of things you'd like to see. Including features we already have...

NYSSMA® Standard at SightReadingFactory.com

Posted by Don Crafton on Nov 9, 2016

Generate NYSSMA®-aligned sight reading exercises at SightReadingFactory.com...

Introducing Custom Levels

Posted by Adam Rabung on Aug 19, 2016

Custom levels allow educators to share custom difficulty levels with their students...

What we've been up to over the last year

Posted by Adam Rabung on Aug 18, 2016

A quick look at some of the features and improvements we've added this year...

Multiple Part Sight Reading Exercises for Band and Orchestra

Posted by Don Crafton on Jun 15, 2016

Attention band and orchestra directors! Sight Reading Factory can now generate multiple part exercises for band and orchestra!...

New and Improved Piano Sight Reading!

Posted by Don Crafton on Apr 23, 2016

The piano sight reading at Sight Reading Factory has been upgraded to include chords, accidentals, and more levels...

Tone Sets for Elementary and Middle School Vocal Students

Posted by Don Crafton on Feb 10, 2016

Sight Reading Factory can now generate Tone Sets for use in the elementary or middle school classroom....

SightReadingFactory.com Users Group on Facebook

Posted by Don Crafton on Feb 10, 2016

Join the SightReadingFactory.com Users Group on Facebook...

Announcing the Sight Reading Factory iOS app

Posted by Don Crafton on Nov 3, 2015

The Sight Reading Factory iOS app is now available in the App Store...

Better student management and iOS update

Posted by Adam Rabung on Oct 3, 2015

Better student management and iOS update...

A faster and friendlier way to configure your sight reading exercises

Posted by Adam Rabung on Sep 8, 2015

A faster and friendlier way to configure your sight reading exercises...

Sight Reading Factory Webinar

Posted by Don Crafton on Aug 19, 2015

Free SightReadingFactory.com webinar hosted by founder, Don Crafton...

iPad and iPhone - coming in September!

Posted by Adam Rabung on Aug 10, 2015

Many exciting new features, updates and fixes...

What we've been up to over 2015

Posted by Adam Rabung on Aug 10, 2015

A quick look at some of the features and improvements we've added over the last year....

Spring Updates

Posted by Don Crafton on May 29, 2015

Many exciting new features, updates and fixes...

Integrating SightReadingFactory.com into your elementary music curriculum

Posted by Don Crafton on Feb 21, 2015

Sight Reading Factory has many great uses for elementary music teachers in helping develop music reading fundamentals through sight reading....

Winter update: a little release with some nice features

Posted by Adam Rabung on Jan 18, 2015

Our latest release has some nice improvements for vocalists and educators...

New release featuring fully customizable sight reading

Posted by Don Crafton on Jan 6, 2015

Today, we are very excited to announce the release of our highly anticipated 'Customization' feature!...

Price change & 2015 plans

Posted by Adam Rabung on Jan 6, 2015

Today we're announcing a price change and looking to 2015...

New features for improving the core sight reading experience

Posted by Adam Rabung on Aug 25, 2014

Today we're introducing a lot of new features that enhance the core sight reading experience....

Assessment feature for music educators: Assignments and Recording

Posted by Don Crafton on Aug 19, 2014

Music Educators can now assess students by giving assignments for students to record themselves and submit for grading....

Summer update: Some new features, and exciting changes on the way

Posted by Adam Rabung on Jun 26, 2014

We had a busy Spring, and some exciting features are on the way...

Sight Reading Factory in the News!

Posted by Don Crafton on Jun 26, 2014

Sight Reading Factory was recently featured in the Richmond Times Dispatch....

Texas Music Educators Association Wrap-up

Posted by Colleen Crafton on Feb 28, 2014

From February 12-15, 2014 Sight Reading Factory exhibited at the TMEA convention in San Antonio, Texas...

Multiple Part Sight Reading for Choir!

Posted by Don Crafton on Feb 7, 2014

We are proud to announce that Sight Reading Factory now supports sight reading for multiple voice choirs....

Announcing the BIG SightReadingFactory.com TMEA giveaway!

Posted by Colleen Crafton on Jan 30, 2014

We’re exhibiting at the Texas Music Educator’s Convention from February 13-February 15 and we want YOU to come visit us at booth 137!...

Prepare for Your Auditions by Using Sight Reading Factory

Posted by Colleen Crafton on Jan 10, 2014

Let’s face it: if you are a musician, you have to master the audition process. If you are a music teacher, you have to assist your students in the audition process....

Earn free time on the site with User Referrals

Posted by Don Crafton on Oct 25, 2013

We're happy to announce the user referrals, a way to share the site and earn free time...

New Release!

Posted by Don Crafton on Oct 25, 2013

Today, we released the new SightReadingFactory.com...

Introducing the Dashboard

Posted by Don Crafton on Oct 25, 2013

We're happy to announce the Dashboard, a feature for tracking your progress...

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