AnuLaya for Teachers

AnuLaya is built for the way tabla is actually taught: one teacher, a small group of students, repertoire that grows over time, and feedback delivered as listening rather than scores. This page is the teacher-side overview — how to set up a class, share material, review recordings, and grow a following of learners who find you through your work.

What you can do as a teacher

• Create classes that a roster of students join with an invite code.
• Post compositions from your library to a class so the students see them in the app's Class tab.
• Build playlists as lessons — sequenced collections of compositions, with per-composition tempos and notes, that you can give to a class or publish for anyone to follow.
• Review student recordings — students post clips of their riyaaz to your class; you listen, comment, and reply.
• Publish compositions and playlists to the world to be discovered by learners outside your classes.
• Appoint delegates — a senior student or co-teacher can help run a class on your behalf, with their actions audited.

The app deliberately does not score practice. Feedback is your job, not the algorithm's, and that is the value you give your students.

Set up your first class

1. Classes tab → Create. Give it a name (Tuesday Beginners, Solo Repertoire 2026) and an optional one-line description. You become the class admin.
2. Members tab → Manage Class Access → Create Invite Code. Share the short alphanumeric code with students by message, email, or in person. Codes show usage and expiration; you can revoke any code at any time.
3. Compositions tab → Post Composition. Pick from your library to seed the class with starting material. Posted compositions show Posted by you and a class pill so students can tell at a glance which version belongs to the class.
4. Recordings tab. This is your review queue — every clip students post to the class lands here, oldest first. Tap a row to play it back and add comments.

The full reference for the class screens is on Classes.

Building lessons as playlists

The most underused power feature for teachers is playlists as lessons. A playlist is just an ordered set of compositions, but with three controls per entry it becomes a structured curriculum:

• Practice tempo — the BPM the student practises this composition at in this playlist. The same composition can live in a beginner playlist at 60 BPM and an advanced playlist at 120 BPM.
• Speed multiplier — Default, 1× (theka), 2× (dugun), 3× (tigun), 4× (chaugun). Use this to layer laykari practice on top of a composition.
• Notes — a short per-composition message students see in the row.

Two ways to share a playlist:

• To a class. Inside a class, the Playlists entry posts a playlist that only members see. Use this for the working syllabus you maintain for your group.
• To the public. From the Playlists tab, set the playlist to Public. It appears in Discover for any user to find and follow. Followers receive live updates — when you add or reorder compositions, their copy updates automatically. This is the single most effective thing you can do to grow a student following: publish a clear, well-paced lesson sequence.

All compositions in a public playlist must be Published (private compositions cannot live in a public playlist). The app will prompt you to publish them first.

See Playlists & Lessons for the full reference.

Reviewing student recordings

When a student posts a clip from their cycle picker to the class, it appears in your class's Recordings tab. Each row shows:

• Student name, composition, taal, tempo
• Cycle range and duration
• Any comment the student attached
• Whether the recording is unread

Tap a row to open the player. You can:

• Play back the audio with a beat-aligned scrubber.
• Comment on the recording — comments thread under the row, the student sees them when they next open it.
• Reply to your own or another teacher's comment if you have a delegate or co-teacher.

There are no auto-scores; the listening is the work. A common pattern is one or two comments per recording: one observation about timing, one about tone or expression. Students learn faster from a sentence than a percentage.

Promoting yourself and your work

Most teachers gain students by being heard. AnuLaya gives you several surfaces to put your work in front of learners who would never have found you otherwise:

• Publish your best compositions. From the composition's edit screen, set visibility to Published. Published compositions appear in the Browse tab for every user, are filterable by taal and category, and can be shared by link (https://www.anulaya.ai/c/<id>). The link opens the composition in the iOS app or shows a landing page on other devices.
• Attach a reference recording. In Record mode, after a strong take, Promote to Reference attaches the audio to the composition. Anyone who opens it in Listen mode hears your version, at the tempo you recorded. This is your audio signature on the composition.
• Publish playlists. Public playlists are how learners find a teacher whose taste matches theirs. A well-curated Beginner Teentaal or Solo Repertoire playlist is more discoverable than a single composition.
• Use the share link. Public composition and playlist links are normal URLs — post them on social, embed them in newsletters, send them in WhatsApp groups. They open the app for users who have it installed and link to the App Store for those who don't.

There is no "teacher profile" page yet. For now, your published compositions and playlists are your profile — make them look like the work you want to be known for.

Delegating part of the work

Once a class grows, you may want a senior student or a co-teacher to help triage recordings and post material on your behalf. AnuLaya supports teacher delegates — a scoped, time-limited role with full audit trail.

Delegates can post compositions to the class, review recordings, manage student membership, and post on your behalf. Every action they take is logged in a delegate audit feed you can review at any time. Delegates cannot remove other admins, change the class owner, or delete the class.

Delegates are managed from the web app at https://www.anulaya.ai/cohorts/. See Teacher Delegates for the full reference, including how to assign one, how the audit log works, and what permissions a delegate has.

A teacher's first month

A practical setup arc — adapt to your style:

1. Week 1 — set up the class. Create one class, invite three to five students, post your first five compositions (your standard starting repertoire). Ask each student to record their first take so the recording loop becomes a habit.
2. Week 2 — publish a starter playlist. Build a six-to-eight composition lesson playlist (your usual order: kayda → tukda → tihai → small bandish), set sensible practice tempos, and publish it. Post the link in your existing communication channels.
3. Week 3 — attach reference recordings. Pick three compositions you teach often, record clean takes, and promote them to reference recordings. New students hearing your version is a much stronger introduction than synthesized playback.
4. Week 4 — review the rhythm. Open the class Recordings tab and look at how often students post. If it is fewer than once a week per student, raise it explicitly in class — the loop only works if students hit Record.

Where to go next

• Classes — full reference for the class screens.
• Teacher Delegates — assign a delegate, audit their actions.
• Playlists & Lessons — practice tempos, multipliers, public playlists.
• Sharing — visibility levels and share links.
• Creating Compositions — the editor.