Student Manual
Everything Durmah does, and how to use it.
40 sections covering every part of the platform — from your first sign-in to getting diagnostic feedback on a draft the night before it is due. Written for students, and open to read before you have an account.
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Getting started
What Durmah is, how to get in, and what to set up first.
What Durmah is, and what it is not
Durmah is a structured study workspace for UK law students. It turns lectures, briefs, drafts and deadlines into one connected workflow — and it will not write your assessed work for you.
Learn Law · Write Law · Speak Law
Every tool in Durmah sits under one of three competencies a law degree actually assesses. Knowing which pillar you are working in tells you which tool to reach for.
Plans, the free trial, and what is included
How access works: a full-access trial that needs no card, then monthly or annual membership. Includes what happens to your work if you cancel.
Getting access to Durmah
The three routes in — a founding-cohort application, an early-access request, or an invitation from a student already using Durmah.
Signing in and verifying your university email
Durmah student accounts use Google sign-in — there is no password to forget. You verify your official university email once, with a short code.
Your first week: what to set up, in order
The shortest path from an empty workspace to one that is genuinely useful. Do these five things and everything else in Durmah starts working properly.
Your workspace
The dashboard, the navigation, and the tools that follow you around.
Your dashboard, explained
The dashboard is a priority screen, not a menu. It exists to answer one question — what should I do next? — and then get out of the way.
Finding your way around
What sits in each part of the navigation once you are signed in, and where to look for the thing you need.
The tools that follow you around
Four things are available on every page once you are signed in — and one of them deliberately disappears while you are writing.
Lectures
Turning a lecture into a structured study asset.
What Lecture Intelligence gives you
Give Durmah a lecture and it returns a structured study asset — summary, key points, vocabulary, the authorities the lecturer actually relied on, and a read on what they emphasised.
Adding a lecture
Two routes in: paste a transcript, which is fast and reliable, or upload audio and let Durmah transcribe it.
Asking Durmah about a specific lecture
Each lecture has its own conversation, attached to that lecture and still there when you come back next week.
Lecture quality, statuses and honest limits
What the different lecture statuses mean, why Durmah sometimes refuses to analyse a transcript, and the exact file limits.
Talking to Durmah
Text chat, voice, and what Durmah remembers.
Talking to Durmah in text
How Durmah answers, what it knows about your studies already, and how to read the source note on every legal answer.
Durmah Voice: speaking law out loud
Voice exists because articulating legal reasoning aloud is a different skill from writing it — and it is the one seminars, moots and interviews actually test.
Voice sessions: length, allowance and messages
How long a session runs, what your monthly allowance covers, and what each voice message means.
What Durmah remembers about you
What is kept, what is deliberately never kept, and how to clear it. Includes the one thing Durmah will refuse to store.
Saving and organising your transcripts
Voice sessions can be archived properly — folders, search, pinning, and resuming a quiz from its transcript.
Assignments
From the brief to the final check, without outsourcing your judgement.
The six-stage assignment workflow
Where a piece of assessed work lives from the moment you receive the brief to the moment before you submit — with Durmah as a tutor, not a writer.
Source Pack and Argument Map
Two structured tools that sit alongside the workflow — a proper record of what you are relying on, and your reasoning as a structure you can see.
The rubric alignment signal
A diagnostic read on how your work aligns with assessment criteria — and a clear statement of what it is not.
Mark My Paper
Diagnostic review of your own draft, before you submit.
Mark My Paper: diagnostic review of your own draft
Give it your draft and it returns structured feedback — what is working, what is weak, what to fix first, and how to spend your next two hours.
Reading your Mark My Paper report
Eleven sections, in a deliberate order. Here is what each one is for and which to read first when you are short of time.
Mark My Paper: formats, lengths and troubleshooting
Accepted file types, how long an answer can be, and what to do when a review will not run.
Planning and revision
Your academic year, your modules, and how you revise.
Year at a Glance: your real calendar
Where your academic year actually lives. Assignments, assessments, timetable, personal items and your university's term structure, merged into one timeline.
My Modules and SyllabusShield™
Your degree structure, and the coverage tracking that turns 'I think I have missed something' into a specific list of what you have not covered.
Exam Prep
A revision workspace per module, a readiness and coverage overview, and a four-week revision outline you fill in yourself.
Quiz Me
Active recall on demand, over a lecture, an assignment, a module or a week — in text or out loud.
Practice Desk
An eight-stage simulated legal matter with a fictional client and a supervisor. It teaches the shape of practice, not the substance of a module.
Research Hub
Finding authority properly — with a research method, verified authorities, and unverified leads clearly separated from them.
Tasks and your study journal
Two small, private tools — a task list that surfaces on your dashboard, and a journal for reflections and supervision notes.
The Lexicon
Legal vocabulary, drawn from your own lectures.
Wellbeing
Looking after yourself during the heavy weeks.
Wellbeing
A daily check-in, your trends over time, and a coach designed for the humane next step rather than another study plan.
If you need urgent help
Free lines, staffed by real people, safe to use at any hour. Durmah is an AI and is not a substitute for any of them.
Community
Your university hub, the Lounge, and referrals.
Account and privacy
Settings, billing, and what happens to your data.
Your profile, settings and billing
Every setting you can change and where it lives — including the three that are not where you would expect.
Your data and your privacy
What is stored, what is deliberately never stored, and how to request deletion.
Academic integrity
The boundary, stated plainly. Read this once in full.
Help
Common questions, and how to reach a person.
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Full access during your trial, no card required, and nothing is charged automatically.
Still stuck?
Ask Durmah — it knows this manual and can point you to the right section. If the manual itself is wrong, out of date or unclear, tell us and we will fix it. Documentation errors are treated as product bugs.
Durmah is an independent study platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or operated on behalf of any university. Everything in this manual describes study support for legal education. It is not legal advice. Where this manual and your module handbook disagree, your module handbook is authoritative.