If your school uses
Charanga to provide its music lessons,
you may have been provided with login details for a system called Yumu.
Those login details will probably be on a letter that looks similar to this
and the area that you want to concern yourself with is this area here
You can see you have the web address that you have to go to
and your username and your password. This is specifically for you.
So let me take you through what Yumu is
and how it works
when you visit the address on your letter. This is your login page.
So you would use your user name and your password
and you would complete those details here and then click Log In
and you can see it's welcoming you to Yumu.
Yumu is a system that Charanga uses
to allow your teacher to provide material for you to work on at home.
So the contents of this page are determined by your teacher.
And your teacher can also see when you've visited Yumu, what you've done,
how far you've got around the various activities.
If you want to change your username and password to something you remember
you can do this from the My Account area.
Just change it from there and hit Save.
But you may want to just keep the letter handy
and use the details that are provided on there.
There are three basic types of materials that can be sent home.
We have assignments
which are these guys here.
We have packages, premade packages which are these guys here.
And we have
Charanga Music World, which is for instrumental users.
Let me take you through them all one at a time.
Assignments are materials that the teacher has set specifically for you to do.
There may be a date that they want these activities
to be completed by. That's entirely up to the teacher to set that.
Have a click in here.
You can see that we have various instructions on the screen.
The instructions up here show you what to do. You can decide not to see that again.
And you can see that this activity is Step 1 from the Three Little Birds unit.
It's also due to be completed by this date here.
This user has already been in here and has completed four of the seven steps.
Let me take you into it.
And you can see
that they've completed those steps there.
As they work their way through here,
these green indicators will highlight to show what steps you've completed.
Now these are set by a teacher,
but you may well recognise them as the sort
of activities that you do in the classroom.
So, for example, if you go to the Flexible Games Track,
you may recognise the dancing animals.
So once you've completed this, you then click back to the menu.
I'll take you back to this step here.
If you want to go back to the home page, you can click on the Home button up here
and I will take you right back to
your dashboard.
So those assignments, those are things that
your teacher has specifically put together for you to do.
This one here are called packages,
and these are premade packages designed by Charanga
for use at home.
Now that means that they don't use
any specialised materials, any specialised instruments,
for example.
But they do allow you to continue to make music at home with your family
if you prefer.
You can see there are six steps here and we suggest that one step per week
would be the normal way to work your way through this.
And again, if we're going to Step 1, it's the same sort of idea.
You can see all the activities down here,
and you can go back to the menu from there,
and you can go back to the Home tab from there.
If you're an instrumental player,
you may have access to
Charanga Music World.
If you click on here, you can see just by clicking into here
you've earned a badge, which is fantastic.
Charanga Music World
is a way of working round various
Yumu instrumental activities at your own pace.
Using your own instruments that you have available
in your house,
you can start off by creating an avatar clicking on here,
picking one of the preset avatars. There are lots to choose from.
Let's go for this guy here. I like him.
And save and exit.
And just by doing that, I've created more badges.
If I want to see the badges I've earned, I can go to the badges button.
Here I can see all the various badges that I've worked my way through.
There are lots and lots and lots that you work
your way through depending on what level you're working at.
Let me go back, I reckon.
Hit Start.
Now it's asking me, what instrument do I play?
Well, I'm happy to be a trumpet player so I can go to choose a world
and then select my world from here.
And I'm going to pick Trumpet/Cornet World and
that means that all the activities that I'll be doing
will be based around trumpets and cornets.
However, I may also be a guitarist as well, so I can then go to add a world.
I can scroll down and I might find Electric Guitar World as well.
You can have as many different worlds here as you like,
So let's visit Trumpet/Cornet World.
And we start off on Bongo Beach and we're earning coins and badges all the time.
We start off in Bongo Beach.
And what we're doing is starting from the start,
working your way around, following the path around,
doing various activities as we go. And these activities,
some of them will be things to do, in which case
you can earn various different badges and coins for it
and some will be just inspirational videos
to do with the instruments that you're talking about.
Once you've finished this world here,
you will then be taken to the next world, which is Gluttonberry Festival.
There are actually seven different stages in each instrumental world.
At any point, you can click on Yumu
up at the top here
and you're taken back to your dashboard.
So you can see there are lots of activities here
that you can use at home with Charanga.
Now because these are set by the teacher if you don't have a login for Yumu
the person to contact would be your class teacher.
So I hope you enjoy using Yumu and making music at home.