Creating a new Session inside a Project
If you've been following this guide from the beginning, you arrived to this page after selecting 'Create New Session in Project' after creating your new project. Still, it's beneficial to know how to create one from an existing project. You'll find that such new sessions are created on the Project Details page within a project. This can be reached by selecting an existing project from Your Profile, then finding and selecting the '+' button in the Project Details frame.
From here you'll find yourself on the New Session screen. As the prompt indicates, this will determine the basics of the session you're about to create.
- Session Title - The title that users will see displayed under the Project Details list.
- Session Type - Use this drop-down to select the type of session you'd like this to be. Selecting a task type will give you a brief description of what the type entails.
We'll name our new session and select Brainwash Spiral Task for the purposes of this guide, but feel free to select whichever option you'd like. This is your project, after all! For a list of session types and guides on using them, please see the Session Types section of the User Guide.
For now, however, let's select Create Session.
And then Go to Session Settings.
Here's where we find the various options and tools available within a session. In the case of our Brainwash task, we have the following:
- An area to enter Session Lines that will be displayed to the subject in a randomized order on the center of the screen. Add lines by typing out a sentence or phrase and hitting enter.
- The amount of times a line must be iterated over to reach the end of the session.
- An area to enter distractor lines, which are lines that will randomly be displayed in varying locations on the screen as the session proceeds. Add lines by typing out a sentence or phrase and hitting enter.
- A box to enable Text Wall Mode, converting distractor lines from random popups into text walls.
- The image upload area, where images can be uploaded from local storage to be used in the session's slideshow.
Populate these options with lines and images that focus on the session's purpose and/or theme. For example:
Once you've finished adding your entries to the session's field, return to the top of the screen and select the 'Save' option.
And there you have it! Your first Project and Session completed.
If you'd like to view it for yourself, navigate to Your Profile via the @ with your username in the upper-right corner of the page on desktop or the hamburger menu on mobile, select the new project, and then select Launch Session.
For further resources on configuration and site use, see the following links:
Session Types - Description of each session type, with links to configuration guides on each.
User Settings - A configuration guide for configuring your profile settings, including a profile description and options for displaying your interests, email address, and making your profile publicly visible.
Project Details - A guide to the Project Details page and the various options it has for running and viewing the sessions contained within a project.