January Tips for Directors and Hosts

Some Tips for Directors and Hosts

  • The tips and suggestions below might help you to ensure accuracy before your festival gets close to the scheduling phase of the festival season.
  • Directors of Music:
    • A good practice is to log on to DaCapoMusicFestivals.com regularly to make sure your teachers are registering students for the correct festival(s). You will be able to see which festivals your teachers are signing up for right from your home page. You can also see the deadlines for the festivals in which your teachers have been registering. To see all festival deadlines, you’d have to log in with a ‘Teacher’ account.

    • Also, directly below that list of festivals, you can see a list of all teachers that registered for a DaCapo account from your school district. It might be helpful for you to keep an eye on this list to notice if there are names that shouldn’t be there.
    • Both the Director of Music and the Teacher Instruction PDF packets are available in the ‘Da Capo Documentation’ tab in the main menu after you log in.
  • Festival Hosts:
    • A good practice would be to log in using your ‘festival host’ account and making note of which districts are registering students in your festival. To view the districts that have been registering for your festival, click Administration –> Entries by District –> Then choose the festival that you’d like to see the details of. If you notice a district that shouldn’t be there, you can view the details of the registrations by clicking on the district name. You may wish to reach out to the director of music in that district to make corrections.
    • I am in the process of developing a security feature to disallow teachers from registering for ‘other’ festivals out of their area or sector. This feature, however, has not yet been activated. You might notice a link called ‘Override Area Restrictions’ in your Administration menu. This page will allow you to override this security feature that has not yet been activated. I plan on activating that feature within the next month or two, or perhaps for the 2020-2021 festival season.
    • The Festival Host, Director of Music, and Teacher Instruction PDF packets are available in the ‘Da Capo Documentation’ tab in the main menu after you log in.
  • Thank you!
    • It has been a pleasure working with all of the educators throughout zones 12, 13, 14, and 15 during the first year of Da Capo. Feel free to continue to reach out to me if you have any questions.

Access Codes for Da Capo Music Festival Registration:

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Director of Music: [Contact the Developer for the access code]
NYSSMA Festival Host: [Contact the Developer for the access code]

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