New Student Checklist

Wel­come to the David M. Glas­gow music stu­dio!  I try my best to use tech­nol­o­gy to make it easy to focus on the music-mak­ing as we work together—scheduling, billing, and exchang­ing mate­ri­als are all han­dled online, and auto­mat­i­cal­ly as much as pos­si­ble.

In order to make that hap­pen, there are a few steps I ask all stu­dents to take as they begin to study with me.  If you have any ques­tions about any of these, or run into any dif­fi­cul­ty, you know where to find me!

1.

Set up your Acuity Scheduling account.

An Acu­ity Sched­ul­ing client account offers many ben­e­fits, includ­ing allow­ing you to con­firm and change all of your les­son appoint­ments online at any time.  To take advan­tage of your Acu­ity client account:

  1. Go to my online sched­uler.
  2. Click “SIGN UP” in the top-right cor­ner of the sched­ul­ing pan­el.
  3. Enter your email and what­ev­er pass­word you’d like to use.
  4. Check the Terms of Ser­vice con­sent box.
  5. Click the “SIGN UP” but­ton.

If you don’t imme­di­ate­ly see all upcom­ing appoint­ments on the online sched­uler after log­ging in, I may need to man­u­al­ly link your appoint­ments to your account from my end.  Just let me know and I can make that hap­pen with a few clicks on my end!

2.

Bookmark the Scheduler page.

To make it super easy to con­firm or change your upcom­ing appoint­ments, please book­mark my Online Sched­uler on what­ev­er browser(s) and/or device(s) you com­mon­ly use.  Log­ging in there will let you resched­ule or can­cel upcom­ing lessons up to 24 hours pri­or to the les­son.

3.

Store a payment method for your subscription.

To be sure your tuition is always paid in advance and avoid Unpaid Les­son fees, you’ll want to store a pay­ment method with your sub­scrip­tion.  You should have received an email from me when I set up your sub­scrip­tion, with the sub­ject line:

Your personal subscription payment link.

(If you can’t locate that email—after check­ing your spam fold­er, just in case—just let me know and I can eas­i­ly re-send it.)

There’s a link in that email that points to davidmglasgow.as.me (fol­lowed by a bunch of HTML-geek gib­ber­ish).  Click that link and fol­low the instruc­tions there to store your pay­ment method with Acu­ity Sched­ul­ing.

Pay­ments are processed through Stripe, and I nev­er have access to your pay­ment infor­ma­tion.

4.

Set up your login information for my website.

Cer­tain areas of my site are avail­able only to reg­is­tered users.  To facil­i­tate your access, I will cre­ate a user account for you when you begin lessons with me.  When I do that, the sys­tem will send you an email with the sub­ject:

[David M. Glasgow, musician] Login Details.

(If you can’t locate that email—after check­ing your spam fold­er, just in case—just let me know and I can eas­i­ly re-send it.)

That email will include your Word­Press user­name for my site (usu­al­ly your first and last name, all low­er­case, with no space, e.g., “david­glas­gow”), and a link to an URL at davidmglasgow.com (again, with HTML-geek code) that will allow you to set your own pass­word for login.  This is a dif­fer­ent login than your Acu­ity client account, but you may use the same pass­word if that’s eas­i­er for you (as long as you don’t tell any­one who works in online secu­ri­ty).

5.

Bookmark my Student Resources page.

I’ve curat­ed an ever-expand­ing library of resources that I find use­ful, inter­est­ing, or just fun for my stu­dents.  Those resources are avail­able on my Stu­dent Resources page.  That page will soon also include a file brows­er that will allow logged-in stu­dents to access the files I’ve shared with them via Google Dri­ve.