It was brought to my attention the other day that you can easily write music in Google Docs. This has been something that music teachers have been asking me about lately – free tools that either they or their students can use to create music and share with their peers/teachers.

Well, using the Add-on VexTab Music Notation this becomes a reality – in all the ways requested above.

The add-on allows users to write the score using the add-on and then easily embed musical notation into a Google Doc. From there, all the same features of a traditional Doc apply (sharing, commenting, editing, linking, etc).

This certainly redefines what educators can do with students creating in the music classroom, especially if the school is a Google Apps for Education school and if the teacher is using Google Classroom! This also lends the opportunity for cross-curricular lessons (maybe students can create a score for a story they've written in English class).

The Add-on can be found here: VexTab Music Notation

Heads up: user feedback states that this works best in Chrome.