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title: "Create a session"
description: "Choose your questions with the session form, then choose how to start."
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# Create a session

Use the session form to choose the questions of a new session. Then choose how to start it.

To open one module, one course or one exam faster, use [the search](/en/search).

## Open the form

Do one of these:

- In the menu, select **New session**.
- On the **Sessions** page, select **Create**.
- In [the search](/en/search), type *new*, then select **New session**.

On a computer, the menu is at the left of the screen. On a phone, open the menu with the button at the left of the top bar.

## Choose your questions

The form opens on the first department and the first year of its lists. Change them if they are not yours.

1. Choose your **Department**.
2. Choose your **Year of study**.
3. Under **Filter by**, select **Module**, **Chapters** or **Courses**.
4. Choose the **Module**, then the **Chapters** and the **Courses** if the form asks for them.
5. Under **Group by**, select **Exam** or **Year**.
6. Under **Sources**, tick the exams or the years that you want.
7. Read the number of questions near the start button.
8. Select **Start**.

If a field is empty, MedLibro shows **Please fill in every field to carry on.** and does not start.

If the button shows **Explore** or **Draft**, you chose that way earlier. See [Choose how to start](/en/sessions/create-a-session#choose-how-to-start).

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## What each filter does

- **Department** is where the exams come from, such as Constantine.
- **Year of study** is a year of your studies, or **Residency**. The list shows how many questions each year holds.
- **Filter by** says how much of the year you want. **Module** takes a whole module. **Chapters** takes some chapters of a module. **Courses** takes some courses of these chapters.
- **Group by** says how the form lists the sources. **Exam** lists each exam, such as *EMD 1 2023*. **Year** lists the exam years, such as *2023*, with all the exams of each year.
- **Sources** holds the exams or the years that the session takes. **Select all** ticks all of them.

If you change a field, the form clears the fields below it.

Clinical cases sit in the chapter *Clinique* of a module. With **Chapters** or **Courses**, tick this chapter if you want them. The other chapters hold only MCQs.

## Choose the residency

If you choose **Residency**, the form changes in two ways.

- **Filter by** adds **None** and **Unit**. **None** takes the whole residency. **Unit** takes all the modules of one unit.
- **Group by** does not show, and **Sources** lists the exam years.

## Read the number of questions

Each tab shows the count of its set. The count of the whole session shows near the start button. *120Q + 4CC (18Q)* means 120 MCQs and 4 clinical cases that hold 18 questions.

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## Add a set

A set is one group of filters. A session can hold up to five sets, for example a module of the 4th year and a module of the 5th year.

1. Select the plus button at the end of the tabs.
2. Fill in the form of the new set.

To remove a set, open its tab and select the bin button at the start of the tabs.

MedLibro names a new session from its tabs. You can [change the name](/en/sessions/manage-your-sessions#rename-a-session) later.

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## Choose how to start

The start button has a small arrow on its right. The arrow opens a menu with three ways to start.

| Choice | What it does |
|---|---|
| **Start** | Adds the session to **Sessions** and opens it. |
| **Explore** | Adds the session to **Sessions** and opens it with [the answers shown](/en/sessions/answer-questions#explore). |
| **Draft** | Opens a [temporary session](/en/sessions/temporary-sessions), which stays out of **Sessions**. |

1. Select the small arrow.
2. Choose **Start**, **Explore** or **Draft**.
3. Select the button, which now shows your choice.

MedLibro keeps your choice on this device for your next session.

**Start** and **Explore** add a new session each time, even with the same filters. **Draft** with the same filters opens the same temporary session again.

## Choose a year outside your plan

A year or a module that your plan does not cover shows a lock. You can still choose it, and a line under the year says that its questions open as previews.

In the session, you can answer what your plan covers, and MedLibro stops at the rest. See [A session with a lock](/en/sessions/manage-your-sessions#a-session-with-a-lock) and [the plans](/en/plans).

Source: https://docs.medlibro.co/en/sessions/create-a-session