Getting Started with Lambda Feedback for Teachers

Access a Module

Use your Imperial Microsoft account to sign in and access your modules. By default, you are logged in as a student, and the interface will be blue. If you have teacher privileges, you will see a 'Teacher' button at the top.

To enter teacher mode, click the 'Teacher' button, and the colour of the interface will change to orange. This is where you can access all your modules, as well as upload and edit problem sets.

As of July 2023, new modules can only be added to Lambda Feedback by administrators. Please contact an administrator if you want your module added to the website.

To find the module you want, you can sort them in ascending/descending order, or filter them as shown below:

Image: Quick sort (left) or filtering (right)

Select the module you wish to edit.

Create a New Problem Set

Click your module and then click 'Content' (in the upper-left corner).

Create a new set by clicking the 'Create Set' button.

A menu will appear with options to edit the name, description, and other settings for the new set.

To edit the content, click the set name. This will open the set in a 'WYSIWYG' editor. The first question is automatically created with a default name.

The question structure is described here.

Below the Line

Below the main question content, you can provide high-quality support material for students.

A student guide is here. Teachers use the 'below the line' content as follows:

• Structured tutorial is to provide scaffolding for students struggling with the question.
• Final answer is self-explanatory.
• Worked solutions provides detailed, step-by-step solutions.

All content below the line uses Lexdown functionality. Worked solutions can be branched, or split into steps. Future developments will add branching and response areas to structured tutorials.

It is not necessary to include all three methods of help. If you only provide content for one tab, only that button will appear in the published student version.

For general terminology, see here.

To see further details on how to edit your questions, see here.

Enrolling Students

In Teacher mode, open your module's home page, click the 'Students' tab, and then click 'Enrol Students'.

Enter a student's email address, or alternatively paste in a list of email addresses separated by commas.

Press 'Enter' to add the email addresses:

Then click 'SUBMIT' to enrol the students.

Imperial College London Email Addresses

You must use the long-form email address:

Valid:

first.nameYY@imperial.ac.uk (student)
j.doe@imperial.ac.uk (staff)
first.name@imperial.ac.uk (staff)

Invalid:

abc123@ic.ac.uk
abc123@imperial.ac.uk
user@ic.ac.uk
user@imperial.ac.uk
first.nameYY@ic.ac.uk

This is because we use Azure Active Directory (i.e., Microsoft) to authorise users.

Enrolling Teachers

Teachers with the 'enrol teachers' privilege on a particular module instance can enrol other teachers on that instance. The process is similar to enrolling students as above, but in the 'Teachers' tab. When enrolling a teacher on a module instance, a role can be selected, and the privileges for that role are listed.

Teachers without the 'enrol teachers' privilage on a particular module instance, if attempting to enrol teachers, will not be able to access the feature but will receive feedback accordingly.