The Assignment Library in Flat for Education: A Teacher's Complete Guide
Most music teachers have a folder somewhere – physical or digital – full of assignments they spent real time building. Theory worksheets that took an evening. A composition project that went really well two years ago. A performance rubric they finally got right after three attempts. Good materials that get harder to find every year, buried under newer folders, renamed files, and the general chaos of a busy classroom.
The Assignment Library in Flat for Education is where all of that lives instead. Organized, searchable, reusable, and accessible from anywhere – without the folder archaeology.
This guide covers everything teachers need to know about how the Assignment Library works, what is inside it, and how to get the most out of it.
What is the Assignment Library?
The Assignment Library is your central workspace for creating, organizing, and sharing assignments in Flat for Education. Think of it as the permanent home for your curriculum materials, separate from any individual class.
When you create an assignment in Flat for Education, it saves automatically to the Library. From there, you can assign it to any class, in any year, as many times as you like. You can edit it, duplicate it, share it with a colleague, or organize it into folders called Collections. Nothing disappears when a school year ends.
It is organized into three tabs, each with a different purpose.
The Three Tabs: What Each One Does
My Assignments
This is your personal workspace. Every assignment you create lives here. You can organize them into Collections (folders), filter by subject, grade level, or assignment type, and search by title. This is where you build your curriculum and keep your most-used materials ready to deploy.
Shared Assignments
This is the collaboration layer. Any assignment a colleague at your school has shared with you appears here, and any assignment you have shared with others is marked as shared in your library. You can take a shared assignment, add it to your own library, and edit your copy without touching the original. It is a clean way for music departments to build a shared curriculum without stepping on each other's work.
FFE Assignments
FFE stands for Flat for Education. This tab is a curated library of ready-to-use assignment templates created by the Flat for Education team. They cover composition, theory, performance, and shared writing across a range of grade levels and musical concepts. You can use them as-is, or open them and customize them before assigning.
How to Find Your Assignments
Getting to the Assignment Library takes two clicks from your teacher dashboard. Log in to your Flat for Education account, go to the My Assignments page, and the library opens with all three tabs visible. You can also use the built-in search bar in the assignment library to find your work!
If you are a Texas teacher using the TEKS units (more on those below), you will see a TEKS Assignments section in the left-hand menu as well. Your full scope and sequence, lesson materials, and student scores are all there waiting, organized by grade level.
If you are ever stuck for what to assign next, this is the first place to look.
Think of it as the database for all your assignments. The Resource Library offers a faster and more efficient assignment creation process, where you can easily keep track of what you've already created and assign tasks to classes as needed.
Creating and Organizing Assignments
Creating a new assignment
Open the Assignment Library and click the button to create a new assignment. You will choose the type first: Composition, Shared Writing, Worksheet, Performance, or Text Response.
Each type is designed for a different kind of musical work. Worksheets include auto-grading for theory exercises. Performance assignments let students record audio or video directly against a score. Composition assignments give students a notation workspace with parameters you control. Text responses are for written reflections or analysis questions. Shared Writing lets multiple students collaborate on the same score in real time.
The assignment saves to your library automatically. It sits there as your master template until you are ready to assign it to a class.
Organizing with Collections
Collections are folders inside your library. If you teach multiple grade levels or multiple courses, Collections are how you keep things from turning into one long undifferentiated list.
To create a Collection, click the Collections tab and use the button to create a new one. To move an assignment into a Collection, hover over the assignment card, click the three dots in the top right corner, and select Move to Collection.
You can also share entire Collections with colleagues. If you want to hand a colleague a full unit -- all eight weeks of it, with every worksheet, composition task, and performance rubric already organized -- you can do that with a single share action on the Collection.
Search and filters
The search bar at the top of the library filters your assignments by title in real time. The filter options let you narrow by subject, grade level, and assignment type. The sorting toggle switches between Last Modified (useful for finding recent work) and Alphabetical (useful for a structured overview).
The filters work best when you tag assignments during creation. If you build the habit of adding a grade level and subject when you create an assignment, searching for everything that belongs to Grade 7 or Music II takes seconds.
Sharing Assignments With Colleagues
Sharing an individual assignment is three clicks: hover over the assignment, click the three dots, and select Share. Fill in the details and confirm. The assignment appears in your colleague's Shared Assignments tab, marked with your name.
When someone finds a shared assignment they want to use, they click the Add button to save a copy to their own library. From that point, their copy is independent. They can edit it, rename it, or customize it for their students without affecting your original.
To unshare an assignment, use the same three-dot menu and select Unshare. People who already saved a copy keep access to their version, but the assignment no longer appears in the shared tab for new users.
One practical note: the lock icon on any assignment card is a shortcut toggle between shared and private. Hover over it and click to switch without going into the menu.
TEKS-Aligned Units: Already in Your Account
If your school is registered in Texas, there is a full set of TEKS-aligned curriculum units waiting in your assignment library right now. No downloads, no setup.
The units cover Grade 5 and Middle School Music (Music I through Music III, Grades 6 to 8). Each grade level includes a 36-week plan organized into four quarters, with real repertoire, step-by-step composition activities that grow in complexity, ready-to-assign worksheets, rubrics for every assessment type, vocabulary lists tied to each grade's TEKS expectations, and six pacing guides for different scheduling models.
To find them, sign in to your teacher account, go to My Assignments, and look for the TEKS Assignments section in the left-hand menu. Choose your grade level, and the full year is there.
For a deeper look at how the TEKS units are structured and what each grade level covers, see the complete guide to TEKS-aligned music units for Texas teachers.
NAfME-Aligned Units
A NAfME (National Association for Music Education) aligned unit is also available in the Assignment Library for teachers outside Texas who want a standards-aligned starting point. It follows the same structure -- ready-to-use assignments, organized lesson sequence, built-in assessment tools -- mapped to NAfME standards rather than TEKS.
Details are on the NAfME units help page.
A Practical Tip for Teachers New to the Library
The single most useful thing you can do in your first week with the Assignment Library is spend 20 minutes migrating your best existing assignments into it.
If you have created assignments in previous class feeds, you can add them to the library from the class view. Open the class, find the assignment, and use the Add to Library option. Once they are in the library, they are available to every future class indefinitely.
Most teachers have three to five assignments they genuinely love and reuse every year. Getting those into the library first means you are never starting from zero again.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Assignment Library in Flat for Education? The Assignment Library is the central workspace in Flat for Education where teachers create, organize, and store music assignments. It is separate from any individual class, which means assignments can be reused year after year without rebuilding them. It has three tabs: My Assignments (your personal library), Shared Assignments (resources from colleagues), and FFE Assignments (ready-to-use templates from the Flat for Education team).
What happened to the Resource Library? The Resource Library was the original name for this feature. It has been renamed the Assignment Library to better reflect what it actually does. All the functionality described under the old name still exists and has been significantly expanded. If you used the Resource Library before, everything you saved is still there under the new name.
How do I organize assignments in Flat for Education? Use Collections, which are folders inside the Assignment Library. Hover over any assignment, click the three dots in the top right corner, and select Move to Collection. You can also share entire Collections with colleagues at your school, making it easy to hand off a complete unit or curriculum group.
Can I share assignments with other teachers at my school? Yes. In My Assignments, hover over any assignment, click the three dots, and select Share. Your colleague receives access through their Shared Assignments tab. They can add your assignment to their own library and customize their copy without affecting yours. You can also share entire Collections if you want to share a full unit at once.
What are FFE Assignments? FFE Assignments are ready-to-use assignment templates created by the Flat for Education team. They are available in the third tab of the Assignment Library and cover composition, theory, performance, and shared writing across different grade levels and musical concepts. You can use them directly or open and customize them before assigning to your class.
Does Flat for Education have TEKS-aligned curriculum? Yes. If your school is registered in Texas, TEKS-aligned units for Grade 5 and Middle School Music (Grades 6 to 8) are already in your Assignment Library under the TEKS Assignments section. Each grade includes a 36-week plan with lesson materials, worksheets, rubrics, vocabulary lists, and six pacing guides for different scheduling models.
How do I find a specific assignment in a large library? Use the search bar at the top of the Assignment Library to filter by title, or use the filters to narrow by subject, grade level, or assignment type. Sorting options let you switch between Last Modified and Alphabetical views. Filters work best when assignments are tagged during creation, so build the habit of adding a grade level and subject each time.