# Monitoring a TBL Lesson

In the [previous section](/tbl/tbl-for-teachers/creating-a-lesson.md), you learn how to create a TBL lesson based on a design. Now in this section, we will look at how to run an effective TBL lesson with LAMS. 

## LAMS Monitoring 

When you created your TBL designs, you were using the [LAMS Authoring environment](/tbl/tbl-for-teachers/getting-started/tbl-design-wizard-1.md#access-learning-design-wizards). 

Similarly -for running lesson, LAMS has a Monitoring environment that will provide you with all the tools that you need to manage and monitor the performance and progress of your students throughout the lesson. 

### Accessing LAMS Monitoring

To access the Monitor environment for a given lesson, simply navigate to the lesson and click on the heartbeat icon.

![Accessing LAMS Monitoring](/files/-MUAfGHY0Tfn0zgMI8-p)

### Monitoring a TBL Lesson

In this 5' video, you can see how you monitor the progress of students and get TBL specific reports

{% embed url="<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1kkznIfcp0&t=11s>" %}
Using TBL Monitor Reports -version 3.0
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### Managing student flow with Gates

As we [saw previously](/tbl/tbl-with-lams.md#how-do-i-do-tbl-with-lams), we use gates to control when we want students to access the TBL activities. Here's a short video that shows how you achieve that.&#x20;

{% embed url="<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXpgn3mnqes>" %}

### TBL Analytics

See [iRAT Analytics](/tbl/tbl-for-teachers/analytics.md#irat-analytics), [tRAT Analytics](/tbl/tbl-for-teachers/analytics.md#trat-analytics) and [iRAT & tRAT Insights](/tbl/tbl-for-teachers/analytics.md#irat-and-trat-insights).

### Manage synchronous or asynchronous TBL lessons

The most important aspect of asynchronous and synchronous TBL lesson is [time management](/tbl/tbl-for-teachers/tbl-how-to/irats.md#can-i-set-up-a-time-limit-for-the-student-to-complete-their-irat). Additionally you can manage student's flow using [gates](/tbl/tbl-for-teachers/monitoring-a-tbl-lesson.md#managing-student-flow-with-gates). &#x20;

### Changing team leaders

If you need to change a leader for a team, you can do this at any of the activities or in the leader selection activity itself.&#x20;

#### In Leader selection

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{% tab title="In the lesson" %}
In the leader selection activity, you can switch any leader for any team as follows

![Switching leaders in leader selection ](/files/-MUhGxm-ncQ2Es_D2COC)

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Student's view" %}
Once you switch the leader, the student will automatically be changed and this is what they will see

![Leader switch for team](/files/-MUhHA5Z7W1NDE6R8khQ)

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

#### In tRAT & AEs

If you've got to change the leader in a tRAT because the student cannot longer continue being leader or has been disconnected, then change the leader as follows

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="In the lesson" %}
![Changing leader in tRAT (scratchie)](/files/-MUhQ_LLHJcVFlI4ojl4)

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Students' view" %}
![View when a leader is changed from the student's perspective](/files/-MUhR9Fi4Jrl5iHB9_V_)
{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}


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