Teacher guide

How to Assign Piano Pieces to Students

From "this would be perfect for Maya" to it sitting in her library, in under a minute.

It's 9:40pm. Maya's lesson was three hours ago, but you're still thinking about it — she finally nailed the left-hand jump in her current piece, and you know exactly what she should tackle next. The problem is where does that thought go? A sticky note on your piano? A text to yourself? A line in a notebook you'll re-read in a week and not remember why you wrote it?

Assigning a piece in MaestroVio takes three steps, and none of them require you to be anywhere near your studio. Here's exactly how it works — whether you're assigning from the full 8,000+ piece catalogue or a piece from your own method books.

Find the piece

Search or browse by composer, grade, style period, or exam board across 8,000+ curated pieces — Baroque to contemporary. That's the part a spreadsheet or a folder of PDFs can't do: real filters that narrow straight down to what's right for a specific student.

Working from a method book or an arrangement that isn't in the catalogue? Add it as a custom piece — title, composer, your own notes — and it behaves exactly like any catalogue piece everywhere else in the app.

Building toward a specific exam? See our .

Assign it, with context

Pick the student (or, if you opened this from their profile, they're already filled in). Add a short note — the exact thing you'd have scribbled on paper, like "focus on the left-hand crossing, not tempo yet" — and an optional due date if you want it to show up as due by their next recital or exam.

The note and due date are both optional. Sometimes "just assign it" is enough.

It's in their library — and on your radar

The piece appears in the student's library the next time they open MaestroVio, note and due date attached. As they work on it, its status moves from studying to completed — visible to you at a glance, no need to ask at the start of every lesson.

And if a due date passes with no progress, that student surfaces on your dashboard's attention list — alongside anyone you haven't assigned anything to yet, or haven't heard from in a couple of weeks. You stop having to remember who needs a nudge; the dashboard remembers for you.

Two ways to get there

Browsing the catalogue and spot a piece for a specific student? Assign it right from the search results — you'll pick who it's for. Already on a student's own page, reviewing their library between lessons? The assign panel opens with that student already selected. Same three steps either way.

Questions teachers ask

Does my student get an email the moment I assign something?

Not automatically — it appears in their library the next time they open the app or site, without adding to their inbox. If you want to make sure they've seen it, mention it at the start of the next lesson, or check their library status yourself.

Can I assign a piece that isn't in the catalogue?

Yes. Add it as a custom piece — title, composer, and any notes — and it shows up identically to a catalogue piece in the student's library, in assignments, and on your dashboard. This is the right path for method books and your own arrangements.

Can I assign the same piece to several students at once?

Not yet — each assignment is one piece to one student, so it can carry a note and due date specific to them. For a whole class working through the same piece, assigning it individually still takes seconds each.

I assigned the wrong due date — can I fix it?

Yes, edit the due date or note on an existing assignment at any time; clearing the date removes it without deleting the assignment itself.

Try it with your own students

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