Step 2: Activate a Session

Step 2: Start a Session

A new session sits as Scheduled until you begin it.

A Scheduled session with Start Session, next to an Active session with View/Scan/End

Find the session card under Today's Sessions (or in history, if it's from an earlier date).
Click Start Session on the card. An earlier version of this guide called this button "Activate Session" — the real label is "Start Session."
A toast confirms "Session activated - Ready to scan!" and you're taken straight to that session's Scan tab (?tab=scan), where QR/biometric scanning and manual marking become available.

Once a session is Active, its card changes to three buttons instead of one: View (opens the session's attendance list), Scan (jumps back to the scan tab), and End (see Complete a Session).