> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://support.lena.africa/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Invite and manage lecturers

> Invite or import the lecturers at your school, set their titles, and pass a departing lecturer’s courses to someone else.

Lecturers teach in [Lena for Teachers](https://support.lena.africa/teachers/overview.md): they create courses, and your school sees them here.
Superadmins and Academic admins manage them from **Lecturers** in the sidebar. A K-12 school calls them **Teachers**,
and other schools **Instructors**.

## Invite a lecturer

**1. Start an invitation**

Choose **Invite lecturer** at the top of the sidebar, or **Invite** on the **Lecturers** page.

**2. Enter who they are**

Enter their **First name**, **Last name** and **Email**. Add a **Title** if you like, such as Dr. or Mr.: it's how
they're addressed at your school.

![The Invite form with first name Tunde, last name Bakare, an email address and the title Mr.](https://mintcdn.com/lenaafrica/L730hi-OSS5z45py/images/school/invite-lecturer-form.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=L730hi-OSS5z45py\&q=85\&s=56ef678abae98478741429cf7789a02e)

Inviting Tunde Bakare, with his title.

**3. Send it**

Choose **Invite**. We email them to join your school. Someone new to Lena gets their sign-in details in that
email; then they sign in to [Lena for Teachers](https://support.lena.africa/teachers/get-started.md).

To change a lecturer's title later, open them from the list, choose **Edit**, set the **Title**, and choose **Save
changes**.

Lecturers can also join your school themselves from Lena for Teachers, without an invitation. They enter their own
title and staff ID, and appear in your list straight away. If someone joins who doesn't teach at your school,
[remove them](#remove-a-lecturer).

## Import many lecturers

Open **More actions** beside **Invite** and choose **Import**. It works like
[importing students](https://support.lena.africa/schools/import-students.md): download the template, fill it in, upload it, fix any rows Lena flags,
then import and download the sign-in details PDF.

The template is the same for every kind of school:

| Column | Required? |
| - | - |
| Staff ID (Instructor ID at other schools) | No |
| Title | No |
| First Name | Yes |
| Last Name | Yes |
| Email | Yes |

Older Lena teacher templates still import. Their Faculty and Department columns are ignored. Importing someone who is
already a lecturer at your school changes nothing. In Lena for Schools, you can only set a staff ID by importing.

![The Lecturers list on the Active tab showing names with titles and staff IDs](https://mintcdn.com/lenaafrica/L730hi-OSS5z45py/images/school/lecturers-active.webp?fit=max\&auto=format\&n=L730hi-OSS5z45py\&q=85\&s=cbdfd52d75364c45811a44708f38e59e)

The Lecturers list, with each lecturer’s title and staff ID.

## See a lecturer's courses

Open a lecturer to see their **Details** and their **Courses**, with a switch between **Active** and **Past**.

## Remove a lecturer

Choose **Remove** from the row's menu, or open the lecturer and choose **Remove**. They're removed from your school.
**This can't be undone.**

Before you confirm, Lena tells you what happens to their courses. Drafts that only they work on are deleted. Their
other courses stay, with no lecturer, until you give each to someone.

If they still own a course that's running, Lena stops you: "This teacher owns N courses still running. Give each to
another teacher first." Choose **See courses**, give each course to someone (below), then remove them. If you select
several lecturers and one owns a running course, remove that lecturer on their own.

## Give a course to another lecturer

**1. Find the course**

Open the lecturer's **Courses** tab. For a course whose lecturer has already left, go to **Courses** and open the
**Needs lecturer** tab.

**2. Choose Transfer ownership**

Open the course row's menu and choose **Transfer ownership**.

**3. Pick the new owner**

Search by name or email, choose a lecturer, and choose **Give course**. They become its **Owner**.

## Troubleshooting

> [accordion] “This person is already a lecturer at …”
>
> They're already at your school. Search for them on the **Lecturers** page.

> [accordion] “There is no other teacher at this school yet.”
>
> You need someone to give the course to. Invite another lecturer first.

## Next

> [card] [Courses and engagement](https://support.lena.africa/schools/courses-and-engagement.md)
>
> See the courses your lecturers publish, and how students use them.

> [card] [Lena Agent](https://support.lena.africa/schools/lena-agent.md)
>
> The assistant that does routine course work for your lecturers.


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