FAQ – C4E Studio

What is an Initial Level Placement?

Initial Level placement is a subjective exercise and your guidance in helping a student find a starting place is valuable. Students will be instructed to prepare a couple of contrasting solos and will be asked to talk about some of their past experiences as a musician. Students are required to take the Initial Level Placement as their first session. It is a 30-minute session.

Here are a few questions you might ask to help with a level recommendation:

Have you taken lessons in the past?
Have you studied any solo material, etudes, or method books?
What ensembles have you played/sung in?
How long have you been playing/singing?
What kind (make/model/set-up/etc.) of the instrument are you playing?
What are your goals for this term and beyond – and are there specific materials or issues that you’d like to work on?
Are you a music major or a non-major?

If you are unfamiliar with the ABRSM levels (they call them grades), please take a look at the repertoire lists 1-8 and the video examples in our video library.

Students, with the guidance of their mentors, should choose a solo from each of the A, B, and C lists for each level – and will also have an additional free-choice solo (which may be another solo from any of the lists or something completely unrelated). A student should have 4 solos that they are working on during the term along with any technical exercises, method books, etc. that you might recommend.

After the initial level placement, you will need to fill out the form for the student in your portal under Documents. You must be logged in to your portal.

Please see the video tutorial on Initial Level Placement in your portal under Documents. Here is the direct link to the page but you must be logged in to your portal on C4EStudio to access it.

Where do you find the ABRSM music ?

How do I change remove a day from my availability?

If you created your availability using Weekly, you can not delete one day from the range you created. You would either have to close the entire session or delete it.

Delete or Close the Weekly Availability

You'll know it's weekly if you go to Session List and see a day of the week. You can either delete the weekly availability:

Or if you think you may want to activate it later on, you can close it, by clicking the day of the week blue title text and selecting the close check box:

Create a New availability using the 'Day of the Year' option for each session.

When logged in to your mentor portal

Go to Session List
Select the Icon under Availablity
Select New
Under Type: Choose 'Day of the Year' (instead of Weekly)

Fill out the remainder of the form
- Select your Date From and To (which can be the same date if you only want to do something one day)
- Choose your time range
Select Save and Close.
If you just want to delete (or close) one of the days you can select the check box and delete it, or open it back up and close it.

What is the difference between Weekly and Day of the Year when adding Availablity?

Think of your availability as if they are your office hours.

From the top of your mentor area, the tab Session List (create a new session by selecting NEW, then fill out each tab on the left.

After you SAVE,/CLOSE you will see the Session listed with an Availability icon, you must select this for each and every session you create to add your availability:

To create a new availability, select NEW

Use WEEKLY if you know you are going to be available every week on a certain day for a particular time. For example every Sunday from 9 AM - 12.

Use DAY OF THE YEAR if want to create your availability for every day for a certain amount of time. When you Save/Close, you are able to delete the particular days you may not be available:

Here is a video tutorial:

What does Closed mean under Availability?

Are students required to take a certain amount of lessons?

Do I have to be a member of C4E to be a mentor and are their fees?

Can I change my video or add another video to my introduction?

How do I add my video so that is shows up on the front page?

The times on my Calendar are not in my timezone, what do I do?

First, ensure you have the correct timezone in your mentor area > go to your name, select the dropdown, and choose Settings.

Under Global > select the drop-down and start typing in the city that is equivalent to your timezone from the list below:

CLOSE to return to your calendar.

From the dropdown, select the correct session, then select a date to view the time slots. The system breaks up the timeslots based on what you added in the session and your availability.

If the time slots are not in your timezone, then go to Mentor Search (top right of the screen) - as if you were a student searching for yourself.

Find your name
Choose the correct session
Change the Timezone to your timezone

What is Sleep Time?