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SessionLab’s improved AI Assistant: smarter, context-aware session design

With the latest improvements to SessionLab’s AI Assistant, we’re introducing a smarter, more integrated way to accelerate your design process. Our improved AI Assistant, now accessible via the prominently placed “Ask AI” button, enables users to generate, modify, and improve session content with greater flexibility. Crucially, it is now able to read and understand the context of your session, making it a collaborative tool that adjusts to your goals and supports your workflow. Let’s explore what this update brings, how it supports your facilitation practice, and what to keep in mind as you start experimenting. 5 things you can do with SessionLab’s improved AI Assistant 1. Generate or adapt an…

Stay on time while running your sessions with Time Tracker

However well you’ve planned your workshop, all facilitators know that plans can change in the moment. Activities overrun. Great topics emerge and you have to choose what to cut. All while trying to stay on schedule and finish on time. There’s a lot for facilitators to keep track of! We heard time and time again that facilitators like you wanted a simple way to stay on time while delivering their workshops. Now, you can use SessionLab to keep track of time and make changes when running your sessions! With Time Tracker, you can start tracking time in your sessions with a single click. See exactly where you are in your…

New Overview Print/PDF options + Groups in Library

The start of the new year has brought us some fresh energy and we hope that 2021 will allow all of us to have in-person workshops again, besides the remote sessions we have grown used to. Whether you are printing out your workshop agendas on paper or exporting to PDF to share digitally, we have some exciting news for you! We made an early release (Beta) of the totally new print and export experience inspired by your feedback. It has 3 new presets to choose from (+ we moved the old one as well to the new interface) giving you a greater variety of options for how you want to…

Better mobile experience and many other exciting improvements

SessionLab has just gotten even better with a range of cool new features in the past weeks. Here we are to recap for you the fresh improvements. Workshop planning on mobile devices Up until recently SessionLab’s workshop planner tool lacked a mobile-friendly version. We know a few determined people who kept using it on mobile devices (ourselves included), but it was far from a decent experience. Now the struggle is over, meet the new mobile version of SessionLab: As a first step, we decided to focus on making the web application mobile friendly, so what you get are not dedicated iOS and Android apps, but a version that works well…

New feature: Breakout sessions / Parallel tracks

We are glad to bring you news about one of the most often mentioned feature request for SessionLab. Breakout sessions a.k.a. parallel tracks! If you are planning a session and you want to split up your agenda into multiple tracks, you can now create parallel tracks by adding a breakout session block. Breakout session blocks offer several useful features for more complex workshop such as: Overview of parallel tracks - see several tracks at once and move blocks between the tracks Track duplication - easily make copies of a track Timing adjusted to the longest track - the length of the breakout session block is automatically adjusted to the length…

Multi-day agendas available in SessionLab

Ever since we released the first version of SessionLab, we received many requests to develop a better option to create multi-day agendas. It is a frequent scenario that a workshop or training session spans longer than a day, and previously the only option was to create two separate sessions for each day and then trying to manage them together in the multi-plan view. That was certainly a cumbersome way to deal with such sessions. We are happy to announce that support for multi-day agendas is now available in SessionLab! With the new feature, you can open separate days (day-sessions) under a session if you want to design a session that…

Introducing the new dashboard in SessionLab

Over the past months, we received a lot of suggestions about how to improve the dashboard, as it became harder and harder to have a good overview if you one many sessions created or shared with. Now we are happy to announce the new redesigned dashboard as the solution to always stay on top of what’s happening on your own or in your team’s workspace! What’s new there? 1) New views (Recent, Personal, Your Team) help you to find your sessions: you get an easy overview of what is in your Personal and in your Team workspaces. Besides, you can find a Recent view where you can always see your…

Rich text formatting, session activity indicator & library commenting ????P

We are happy to bring you the latest updates in SessionLab: Let your text become rich! - not only in content but also in format. Rich-text formatting is now available in the session planner, so you can apply bold, italic, underline and bullet point formatting in any section of your session blocks. Get to know in a glance if any of your sessions has been changed while you were away. If you work collaboratively on session plans, and your collaborators edit your session or make a comment while you are away, then an activity indicator ● will be shown on your homepage on the session card. Combine it with sorting…

Find and organise your sessions better in faster-than-ever SessionLab

In this update we bring you a report on maintenance and some exciting teasers for the future. In the past weeks we’ve been busy improving the ‘behind the scenes’ part of SessionLab. As a result we got a faster and a more reliable platform than ever before. Of course, we included some new features as well that we know you’ve been looking forward to: Mark your client for each session: Now you have a dedicated field to enter a client of a specific session. This can help you filter your sessions and find the ones assigned to specific clients more easily. Less crowded dashboard: If you have a lot of…

Use own private libraries and share sessions with a link

We are excited to introduce you the latest updates in SessionLab. Your Private and Team Libraries of facilitation resources: Do you have some favourite methods or exercises that you often (re)use in your sessions? Now you can add them to your dedicated Private Library in SessionLab, so you can quickly find them next time you want to use them! If you work in a team, a new Team Library can be handy to have a shared knowledge base of facilitation methods within your team! Add resources to library from your sessions: Next time you feel you have just created a block in one of your session worthy to be saved…

Real-time collaboration, printing options and more

In today’s update we are bringing you an important feature that makes SessionLab a truly collaborative process design tool. Plus now you can customise your printouts. Here are the detailed descriptions of the new goodies: Real-time collaboration and editor rights: When you invite a collaborator for your workshop or training plan now you can work together at the same time on your plan. To do that you can give the new editor role to your collaborators which will allow them to edit all the plan details. The viewer role still remains for cases when you want to give only view and commenting rights to collaborators. Furthermore, you can see the…

More than 100 exercises in our new library

We are thrilled to introduce the SessionLab library of facilitation techniques. You can already find more than 100 handpicked exercises collected from free public sources that you can search and filter by suggested number of participants, length of exercise and topics. Once you have found the exercise that fits, you can easily add it to your session plans. Do you have an exercise that you would like to share with the community of trainers? Feel free to add your favourite exercises to the library. Our vision is to build the best public repository of training or workshop content knowledge and your contribution is more than welcome! But that’s not all.…

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