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.
Open Durmah from the launcher at the bottom right of any page. On pages where the launcher hides itself, chat is embedded in the page instead — inside Exam Prep and inside the assignment workflow.
What Durmah already knows
You do not need to re-explain your situation each time. Durmah knows your university, your year, your modules and your upcoming deadlines — and, inside a lecture or an assignment, what you are currently working on.
Reading the source note
Every substantive legal answer carries a note explaining its own basis. These are worth reading, because they tell you how much weight the answer can bear.
| What the note says | What it means for you |
|---|---|
| Constrained to verified UK-law authority and statute layers | Solid ground. Still verify citations against your module materials before assessed work. |
| Only partial verified support | Usable as a starting point. Check your reading list before relying on it in assessed work. |
| Not enough verified support to answer fully | Durmah is declining rather than guessing. Upload the relevant lecture, reading list or brief and ask again. |
Questions that get good answers
- Explain the difference between these two cases and tell me which one my lecturer actually relied on.
- I think the issue here is remoteness. Am I missing an issue?
- Here is my structure for this problem question — where is it weakest?
- What is the counter-argument to the position I have just taken?
- I have four days and three deadlines. Help me plan the week.
Durmah is most useful when you push back. Tell it why you think its answer is wrong; ask it to make the strongest case against your own position. Passive question-and-answer gets you information. Argument gets you understanding — and understanding is what the exam tests.
Where your conversations live
Conversations persist. A general thread follows you around the app, and separate threads attach to each lecture, each assignment and each exam module — so context never bleeds between pieces of work.
Keep going
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.
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.
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.
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.