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

Previously if you wanted to work with slides for a biomarker training or consensus scoring you'd need a full briefcase with exemplar slides for all your participants per indication/biomarker, forms, case information... and that's before you even begin to consider the microscopes!

Training Sessions were designed to completely eradicate these difficult and costly logistical hurdles.\\
A standard training session contains everything you need to train other pathologists, reach a ground-truth consensus, collect annotations from experts around the globe, or validate an AI algorithm - ask pm@pathomation.com for information on any of these or to outsource setting these up.

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A Training 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
  - Supplementary info e.g. manuals / interpretation guides (videos, powerpoints, pdf's, etc)
  - Case collections ('slide boxes') which all your participants can see at once
  - Consensus scores
  - Optional Annotations made either by the Supervisor, and/or by the Trainee Participants

**Walkthrough**

This video will get you started:


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You will also see a bluetext prompt to create a Training Session when viewing a Project that does not yet have a 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]]