Visual and Performing Arts

Digital Resources:

• Adobe Creative Cloud

  • Adobe Creative Cloud  is industry level graphic design, audio and video editing software that can be used on all district owned devices for teachers and students. 

• Adobe Express

  • Adobe Express assignment integration in Canvas can empower your students to customize or create their own graphics, posters, videos, web pages, and visual reports all within your existing assignment flow.

• Canva

  • a free-to-use online graphic design tool to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more.

• Edit PDFs or collect student feedback

• Canva access in our CANVAS LMS has already been added for both teachers and students.

• Sight Reading Factory 

  • Sight Reading Factory makes it easy to practice sight reading and provides a unique algorithm for composing music on demand makes practicing sight reading easy & fun. 

• Sound Trap 

  • Soundtrap is an online recording studio that inspires creativity and collaboration through podcasting and music making.

  • Digital music recording and editing application for District Music Teachers and Students.

Academic and Professional Community Connections:

• VAPA SMUHSD Courses of Study Descriptions

  •  list of all of the courses taught in the district and the aligned standards and curriculum frameworks that inform their administration.

• VAPA SMUHSD Adopted Materials

  • Textbooks approved and adopted by the District.

• VAPA CA Standards

  • All of the state content standards, including visual & performing arts. Content standards were designed to encourage the highest achievement of every student, by defining the knowledge, concepts, and skills that students should acquire at each grade level.

• Professional Organizations

• Canvas Master Course Shells