The phrase "a lecture allows" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the opportunities or possibilities that a lecture provides to the audience or participants.
Example: "A lecture allows students to engage with complex topics in a structured manner."
Alternatives: "a lecture enables" or "a lecture provides".
Stop, start and rewind difficult parts of a lecture, allowing them time to think over the content before continuing.
An annual event since 2011, the lecture allows prominent musicians to discuss the state of music and the music industry.
The lecture allows students to hear distinguished speakers talk about subjects such as business management, entrepreneurship, law and ethics, and how these topics apply to engineering and technology.
The Jones lecture "allowed the town to honor him as an individual, a Welshman and as a journalist," said Robert T. Isherwood, an enthusiastic organizer of the bicentennial event.
Hopefully the creative pressure offered by lecturing allows us to become more effective, if not always inspiring, teachers.
The infrastructure for recording and sharing of residency lectures allows trainees in partner residency programs to actively participate by asking and answering questions during the lecture.
The lectures allowed students to gain further insight on a number of current issues including the 2015 Turkish parliamentary elections, freedom of speech, the Kurdish issue and gender equality in Turkey.
Namely, lectures allow only passive learning and projects are so constrained by the time and scope requirements of the academic environment that they cannot be large enough to exhibit many of the phenomena occurring in real-world software engineering processes.
"The online lectures allow me to focus on the information instead of trying to constantly take notes, because I know I can go back to the lectures whenever I need to," one student wrote in a course critique.
