What is an organization?

Alongside choirs there's a second area in cori: organizations. They're used by schools, associations and large projects like 6K UNITED!, where many groups learn the same songs at the same time. This article explains how an organization differs from a choir, who has which role in one and what participants get to see.

Organization or choir?

Both are ways of using cori together — but they work fundamentally differently:

• A choir is set up by you. The choir leadership invites members by link, uploads its own songs, sheet music and files and manages the subscription, roles and appointments.
• An organization is set up by cori together with the organiser. The content — songs, practice videos, sheet music — comes centrally from the organization. You can only join with an access code, and within the organization participants practise in groups.

Put differently: in a choir you decide on the content yourselves. In an organization the organiser sets the programme, and the groups practise with it.

The roles in an organization

Within an organization there are exactly two roles:

There's no "organization management" role in the app. Everything to do with the organization itself — name, logo, colours, songs, videos, codes — is set up outside the app. The contact point for that is the organiser, not the app.

What participants see

After joining, the organization's home screen opens in the organiser's design, with a personal greeting. On it you'll find:

• your streak — the practice days in a row, exactly as in the choir area
• your group's next appointment, as soon as you've joined one
• Warm-up — short videos for warming up your voice
• All songs — the organization's songs as practice videos, with new pieces carrying a New badge
• depending on the organization, an additional area with cori songs you can download and use to sing along

Two more tabs appear in the navigation at the bottom as soon as they become relevant: Calendar, once you're in a group, and Group — the list of names — for teachers only.

Why a code and not an invitation link?

Choirs invite by link, organizations work with short codes. There's a practical reason for that: a code can be written on the board, read aloud or printed on a slip of paper, and it works for a whole school class at once — without every child needing an email address. Because that's exactly the second difference: when you join with an access code you need neither an email address nor a password. The name you want the others to see you under is enough.

What's next?

• Joining: Joining with an access code
• Securing your account: From an organization account to a full cori account
• For teachers: Creating and managing groups
• What there is to practise: Materials in an organization
• cori as a whole: cori at a glance