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Lena for Schools is where the people who run a school set it up and keep it running. You add your school’s structure, bring in students and lecturers, choose who else helps you run it, and see how students are using Lena. Lecturers teach in Lena for Teachers and students learn in Lena for Students; all three use the same Lena account. Open it at school.lena.africa.
The Lena for Schools dashboard showing how students use Lena this week, with the sidebar on the left

The dashboard at Crestview University, with the Get started checklist at the foot of the sidebar.

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A quick tour

  • Dashboard shows “How students use Lena”: active students, web and mobile sessions this week, and how many enrolled students are engaged. The figures can be up to an hour behind.
  • User directory: Students, Lecturers and Directory Settings.
  • School: Faculty Management for your structure, and Courses to see every published course.
  • Admin Management, for a Superadmin, to invite the people who run the school with you.
  • Invite lecturer, at the top of the sidebar, invites a lecturer. Its arrow also offers Invite student and, for a Superadmin, Invite admin.
  • Search (⌘ K or Ctrl K) finds pages, actions and people.
  • The school name at the top switches between schools you help run, or adds another.
The words follow your kind of school. A K-12 school sees Teachers, Grade Management and Subjects; other schools see Instructors and Cohort Management. See words your school uses.
The Students list with names, matric numbers, departments and levels

Students, with their matric number and where each sits in the school.

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Who can do what

The person who created the school is its owner. Only the owner can change the school’s details, hand the school to someone else or delete it. You only see the pages your role can use. See admins and roles.

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Set up your school

Faculty Management listing three faculties with their codes and number of departments

Faculty Management holds your faculties, and the departments and levels inside them.

Create your school

Sign up, name your school and finish the three setup steps.

Set up your structure

Add faculties, departments and levels, or grades and arms.

School settings

Your school’s details, ownership, and your own account.

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People

Students

Invite, edit, move and remove students.

Import students

Add a whole class from an Excel sheet.

Lecturers

Invite or import lecturers, and pass on a departed lecturer’s courses.

Admins and roles

Choose who helps run the school, and what each can do.

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Running your school

Courses and engagement

See every course and how students use it.

Directory settings

Choose which details people can change themselves.

Lena Agent

What the assistant does for your lecturers, and how to turn it on.