==== Setting Up a Session ====

Previously if you wanted to give a training to pathologists, you'd need a full briefcase: you'd need enough exemplar slides for all your students per indication/biomarker, exam forms, case information... and that's before you even begin to consider the microscopes!

Projects and sessions were designed to completely eradicate the need for these suitcases. A project contains everything you need to train other pathologists.

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A session contains:

  - All your participants
  - The ability to invite and/or contact all of them at once
  - Tracking of email invitations and logins
  - Forms to capture the data from the participants
  - Reader manuals / interpretation guides (videos, powerpoints, pdf's, etc)
  - Cases collections ('slide boxes') which all your participants can see at once
  - Consensus scores

**Walkthrough**

You can follow this video to get started, or go through the illustrated guide that follows it


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You can make a new session in two ways:

A) By navigating to the details tab of your project and clicking the bluetext prompt to add a new training session (1):

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B) Navigating to the training sessions tab in the sidebar and clicking "Create" (1):

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You will be presented with the Training session Create page, in which you can 
  - Select the project you want to base this training session on. If you used method A to get here, your project will already be filled in.
  - Give a title to your training session
  - Select the region in which it will be based if you have several georeplication servers on your account
  - See and select case collection(s) that have been created for this project

When you're ready, click save to create the training session.

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Well done! You've created your first training session. Now it's time to [[Invite participants|add participants]] or [[edit_a_training_session|put on some finishing touches]]