Telegram Bot as Instructional Media

June 2024 by Muhaimin Abdullah

Abdullah, M. (2024). Telegram Bot as Instructional Media. Open Educational Resources on English Language Teaching. Retrieved October 10, 2025, from https://www.muhaiminabdullah.com/blog/telegram-bot-instructional-media

Telegram enables its users to create and maintain various functions. One of the most brilliant ideas is using it as instructional media for learning. This post reveals the step-by-step guide on how to integrate Telegram into teaching and learning. First of all, the following draws how it is processed in the system.

sequenceDiagram
    participant Students
    participant Bot
    participant Script
    participant Database

    Students->>Bot: Sends command for Agenda, Lesson, or Tryout
    Bot->>Script: Triggers request
    Script-->>Database: Fetches agenda and lesson
    Script-->>Database: Executes tryout

    Script-->>Bot: Returns data or confirmation
    Bot-->>Students: Responds request

    Students->>Script: Submits tryout answers via form
    Script-->>Database: Saves tryout answers and updates sheet
    Script-->>Bot: Sends notification to user and/or admin

    Bot-->>Students: Sends agenda and lesson
    Bot-->>Students: Processes score

This project comprises of 2 modals - Bot and database. In this project, we will apply Telegram to handles communication with database. To ease and to make it cost-effective, Spreadsheet is applied as the hosting.

Bot

First of all, create your bot, name it, and complete the process till you get the token. To create Bot on Telegram, navigate to search bar and search for BotFather.

Spreadsheet

Next, draw your database on Spreadsheet. Simpply navigate to Spreadsheet and name Sheets

AppsScript

After writing the script, you need to deploy the script as web app. After that, copy the link into the following url in web browser to webhook the webappurl.

https://api.telegram.org/bot123abc/setWebhook?url=webappurl

To unhook the webapp url, apply the same url with webappurl removed.

When the app works with a channel, the following link is used to check chat ID.

https://api.telegram.org/bot123abc/getUpdates

In addition, the following links are also useful.

https://api.telegram.org/bot123abc/getMe
https://api.telegram.org/bot123abc/sendChatAction

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