How Yamaha uses Canvas to create classroom harmony
At Yamaha Music School in Malaysia, teachers are using Canvas to make every lesson more connected and engaging. For educator Shi Bei, it’s changed how students practise, learn, and share their progress. With Canvas, teachers, students, and parents stay in tune, creating a more seamless and enjoyable learning experience.
My name is Shi Bei and I'm a Yamaha teacher at Yamaha Music School. What's your favorite genre of music? Maybe classical and jazz and also gaming soundtracks. What is out of my expectations is how much time they are spending on Canvas. I can actually track how long the student uses the app. Canvas is new to the new primary course that we are having now. Previously there were never apps and we find that children maybe sometimes don't practice as much.
And with the app now, I would say they practice more. The practise doesn't really come as a burden, but more towards like, Oh, let me use the app and watch some videos, or to let me learn from there. I think for parents, previously, they need to motivate their kids so much to go to practice. But I think with the Canvas now, they also feel less burdened, you know, and it also creates a bond. I think the Canvas kind of strengthens that bond so that they don't have that kind of friction between parents and kids when they don't want to practise.
Canvas is the tool that we use to play the music in a class. So I would need to connect my phone to a speaker and then I will just use the canvas to access the music. So we will use the app, we will just say, today's lesson seven. So we'll click and then see, we will check what is there for us to teach. And then we will use our books to prepare for the class along with the lesson plan in Canvas.
So the children, they will use Canvas to access to their homework. They will look at their homework, what do they do, they will know clearly what they need to practise that week and then they will click in and then to see videos and learning content and they will also play some quizzes and videos. I was a Yamaha student myself. I was determined to become a teacher and just want to bring that same joy to the kids. When I finish a song or we finish a song and everybody's like, Again? One more time? Or I like it. That's the moment I feel it's important that they love the class and they love music.
And with the app now, I would say they practice more. The practise doesn't really come as a burden, but more towards like, Oh, let me use the app and watch some videos, or to let me learn from there. I think for parents, previously, they need to motivate their kids so much to go to practice. But I think with the Canvas now, they also feel less burdened, you know, and it also creates a bond. I think the Canvas kind of strengthens that bond so that they don't have that kind of friction between parents and kids when they don't want to practise.
Canvas is the tool that we use to play the music in a class. So I would need to connect my phone to a speaker and then I will just use the canvas to access the music. So we will use the app, we will just say, today's lesson seven. So we'll click and then see, we will check what is there for us to teach. And then we will use our books to prepare for the class along with the lesson plan in Canvas.
So the children, they will use Canvas to access to their homework. They will look at their homework, what do they do, they will know clearly what they need to practise that week and then they will click in and then to see videos and learning content and they will also play some quizzes and videos. I was a Yamaha student myself. I was determined to become a teacher and just want to bring that same joy to the kids. When I finish a song or we finish a song and everybody's like, Again? One more time? Or I like it. That's the moment I feel it's important that they love the class and they love music.