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Lena for Teachers is where you run your courses: share study materials, set assignments, quizzes and exams, grade and release results, and keep in touch with your students. Open it at teacher.lena.africa. Your Lena account is the same one you use in the other apps.
The Courses page with no courses yet and a New course button, beside the sidebar

Your courses, the first time you open your school.

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Find your way around

The sidebar, from top to bottom:
  • Home | Agent: switches between your courses and Lena Agent. If your school doesn’t have Lena Agent yet, the Agent side shows a lock. Student assistants don’t see this switch.
  • New course: starts a course. The arrow beside it opens New assignment, New quiz and New exam.
  • Search: finds courses, work, files, outlines and students. Press ⌘ K (or Ctrl K) from anywhere. See find anything.
  • AI Agent, Courses, Assignment, Quiz, Exam, Discussions, Announcements and Calendar. A red number on Courses counts the course invitations waiting for you. You only see the sections your role uses.
  • Recents: the courses and work you opened last on this device.
  • Get started: a short checklist for your first week. See get started.
Along the top:
  • Your school’s name: switches to another school you teach at.
  • Ask Lena: ask Lena Agent about the page you’re on. See Ask Lena.
  • Inbox: the bell. Work to grade, replies, announcements and course news land here. See notifications.
  • Your picture: the account menu, with What’s new, Settings, Send feedback, Support and Log out.
On a phone, the sidebar moves into a menu at the top, and Ask Lena is a button at the bottom of the screen.

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How a course runs

Every course goes through the same steps.
The Introduction to Psychology course page on the Details tab, with its entry code and eligibility

A course’s page: its tabs hold the outline, materials, people and grades.

1. Create a course

Name it, give it a code and place it in your school. It starts as a draft.

2. Publish it

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

3. Add materials

Upload notes and slides, add links, and write the course outline.

4. Set work

Assignments, quizzes and exams, as drafts until you publish them.

5. Grade

Mark submissions, with or without a rubric.

6. Release results

Students see their grades once you release them.

7. End the course

Make it read-only at the end of term, then duplicate it for next time.

Keep in touch

Announcements, discussions and your class schedule.
An assignment page with a Published badge and its Details, Question, Rubric, Submissions and Insights tabs

A published assignment, ready for students to hand in work.

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Good to know

  • Roles are per course. You can own one course and help on another as an assistant. What you see depends on your role on each. See people and roles.
  • Words follow your school. A K-12 school sees “Subject” instead of “Course”, and “Scheme of Work” instead of “Course Outline”. See words your school uses.
  • Offline, you can look but not change. Pages you’ve opened before still open, with your courses, people, submissions and gradebook as last saved. Grading, releasing and creating need a connection. See phones and offline.

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Next

Get started

Sign up, join your school and work through the checklist.

Create a course

Set up your first course.