SessionLab

Choose to show and hide various fields of your session blocks, and manage how your agenda appears on-screen

Customize your Session Planner layout

Create a session and begin to build an agenda

Session Planner overview

An overview of the key components of working in SessionLab, and how they relate to each other

Sessions vs. Templates, Blocks vs. Methods

Capture key information for your design process. Stay organized and keep all your session documentation in one place

Pages - for session briefs, reports and to capture notes in early-stage planning

How to run your session, track your timing and see if you're ahead or behind your planned schedule

Time Tracker - Track your session timing

Speed up your workflow - choose multiple blocks at once

Save Time with Multi-Block Actions

Use support from the AI Assistant to generate and refine your agenda

Design and adjust your agenda with the AI Assistant

Add blocks in the Session Planner to begin building your session

Create a block in SessionLab

Use groups to link a series of blocks together and make the process of moving and reusing them easy

How to use Groups in your sessions

Deleting blocks, groups or parallel rooms from your session

How to delete blocks, groups or rooms

Edit the timing and duration of blocks in your session, and learn how to lock the starting time of a block

Time calculation, locking blocks and resolving timing issues in your session

Design your agenda within a specific time limit by setting a fixed session end time

How can I set a fixed duration or end time for my session?

Never accidentally lose your work again - reinstate items which were previously deleted back into your session

Recover deleted blocks, rooms, notes and groups

Select a specific time zone for your session, or set the display time zone so any session is displayed in your local time.

Manage different time zones in your session

How to show breakout sessions in your agenda, and how to manage each parallel track

Breakout rooms

Add and remove notes, and park blocks in the Notes tab

Creating notes and adding them to your session

Leave, read and respond to comments from your collaborators or workspace members

Add and reply to comments from collaborators

Search and add methods to your session from the public, private or shared library, or sessions you have access to

Reuse methods from your libraries and previous sessions

Make your session plans visual by adding images into the description and instructions of your blocks

Add images to your session blocks

Add attachments to the blocks in your session, which can be downloaded as a ZIP file by collaborators

Adding attachments to your session

Split large amounts of information or show a list of instructions with a bulleted or numbered list

Adding bullet points and numbered lists to your session plan

Add further details to your blocks, such as goals, materials, longer instructions and attachments

Block details to record extra information in your blocks

Record the items you'll need when running your activities

Keep track of the materials needed to run your session

Create check-box lists in your session, and view a summary of their completed / uncompleted status

Task management - keep yourself organized in SessionLab

Planning your workshop activities with the help of AI

AI-assisted block generation

Park your unused blocks in the Parking Lot tab

Parking lot for ideas and unused blocks

Undo the changes made in your session and track and restore versions of your sessions

Undo your actions in the Session Planner and manage different versions of your session days

Format text in your session with colors and highlights

Colored text and highlighting in your sessions

Tips on staying organized and improving collaboration

Take collaboration to a new level with Task Management and Tags

Learn more about how to use SessionLab for training design in this article.

Using SessionLab for your instructor-led training program

Choose to collapse or expand your session blocks, zoom in or out and automatically resize to fit the screen

Optimize your screen space, zoom and block text visibility

Best practices on how to structure information in the Session Planner, from adding notes, to using to-do lists

How to structure information in your session

Collect feedback and capture key information through surveys without leaving your session planner

Forms - Gather insights from your workshop participants

Create a session out of any existing Word or PDF document or Power Point presentation

Importing Word, PPT or PDF Files to Build a Session

Make workshop preparation smoother and more effective with email reminders

Stay Prepared with Pre-Session Reminder Emails

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