Common Features > Managing Assessments > Managing Assessment Campaigns > Creating an Assessment Session
Creating an Assessment Session
 
Session start options
To create an assessment session:
1. Open the properties of the campaign and select the Sessions page.
2. In the Assessment Sessions section, click New.
The session creation wizard opens.
Within the context of a campaign with a template, the session characteristics are automatically inherited from the template defined on the assessment campaign.
When you have not defined a template on the campaign, you can define the session from an existing assessment template. All information characterizing the session is described in the template.
From a campaign with template 
To create a session as part of a campaign with a template:
1. In the session creation wizard, enter the session name.
2. Specify when to start the evaluation session. See Session start options.
3. Click OK.
You can create other assessment sessions in the same way.
*The assessment sessions created will be used to plan the assessment campaign, that is to distribute between the different assessment sessions the objects to be assessed in their context. See Planning Assessment Campaigns.
From an existing template 
Within the context of a campaign without predefined template, you can apply a template to the session:
1. In the session creation wizard select the From an Existing Template option and select the assessment template you want to use.
2. Specify assessment session dates:
• Assessment Planned Begin Date is fixed at today's date
• Assessment Planned End Date.
3. Click Next.
4. Select the Perimeter that corresponds to the object from which the object list to be assessed will be established.
5. Click Next.
A preview report of the scope calculated for the session is presented for information.
6. Click Next.
7. Specify when to start the session. See Session start options.
8. Click OK.
Session start options
You have several possibilities to start a session:
• Not now
• Now
If you choose this option, you will be able to see the assessment session being launched.
• Specific time and date: later, specifying the date and hour in UTC format