Lectures and tutorials
Every session is either a lecture or a tutorial. You do not pick it — it follows from who starts the session:
| Started by | Category |
|---|---|
| The group's owner, or a shared owner | Lecture |
| A TA | Tutorial |
The start dialog shows the category as a badge at the top, so you can see which one you are about to create before you start.
Why not two groups?
Because they are the same students.
A course with a weekly lecture and a weekly tutorial is one group. Splitting it into two would split the roster, the coursework and the student records along with it — and you would be maintaining the same class list twice.
The category keeps the two kinds of meeting distinguishable inside one group, which is what you actually wanted. The usual arrangement — you give the lecture, your TA runs the tutorial — produces the right labels with no effort from either of you.
Where the distinction shows up
In the session list. Sessions are labelled, so scanning a term's worth is readable rather than a wall of dates.
In grades. A student's record shows a lecture average and a tutorial average separately, and the attendance export has a Lecture Grade and a Tutorial Grade column. See Review attendance grades.
In coursework. An assessment carries a Track — general, lecture or tutorial — as well as optionally being tied to a specific session. See Create an assessment.
Past attendance is the exception
When you import past attendance from a spreadsheet, you choose the Session Type for each column yourself. That is the one place the category is picked by hand, because the sessions already happened and Quorum cannot tell who ran them.
If you run your own tutorials
A tutorial you start as the owner is recorded as a lecture. If the split matters for your grading, have the tutorial started by a TA on the group, or bring tutorial attendance in through Import past attendance where the type is yours to choose.
If your course has only one kind of meeting, none of this matters — everything you start is a lecture.
If a session ends up with the wrong label
It is a labelling problem, not a data problem. Attendance is recorded identically either way — the category affects how sessions are labelled and split in grades, not who was marked present.