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A course is where everything for one class lives: its outline, study materials, assignments, quizzes, exams, announcements and grades. Any teacher in your school can create one. You become its Owner.

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Create it

1

Start a new course

In the sidebar, choose New course. You can also go to Courses and choose New.
2

Name it and give it a code

Enter a Course title, such as “Introduction to Psychology”, and a Course alias/code, such as “PSY 101”. Students see both. The code helps them spot the course in a list.
3

Place it in your school

Choose where the course belongs in your school. At a university, pick the Faculty, Department and Level. At a K-12 school, pick the Grade and Arm. Then choose the Semester (or Term).
The New course form with title, code, faculty, department, level, semester and description filled in

The new course form, filled in for a university.

4

Add a description, if you like

The Description is optional. Students see it on the course’s Details tab.
5

Create it

Choose Create Course. The course opens with a Draft badge.

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Good to know

  • A new course is always a draft. Students can’t see it or join it until you publish it. Use the time to add study materials, an outline and your first assignments.
  • You choose who can join and how it’s graded later. You do this on the course’s Settings tab, before you publish.
  • What you see depends on your school. K-12 schools see “Subject” wherever this page says “course”, and “Scheme of Work” for the outline. See words your school uses.
  • You can change the details later. Open the course and choose Edit Course. A course that has ended can’t be edited.
  • You can’t duplicate a draft or invite co-teachers to it. Publish it first.

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Troubleshooting

Your school hasn’t added its faculties and departments to Lena yet. Ask a school admin to add them in Lena for Schools. See set up your school’s structure. Once they have, the list fills in.
The faculty you chose is empty. Choose another, or ask your school admin to add departments to it.
Fill in every field marked with a star (*): the title, the code and the department (the grade at a K-12 school). Some schools also need the faculty or level.

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Next

Set who can join and publish

Choose the classes that can join, set the grade breakdown, and share the entry code.

Add study materials

Upload notes, slides and links, organised into folders.