# Running Your First Session

You've setup your board and it's time to get started! Follow these tips to effortlessly invite your team mates or guests and run your fist session with Ludi.

### Switch to Meeting Mode

At the top of the board, click on 'Start Meeting' to enter Meeting Mode. This switches the UI to display the collaboration tools (you will see the left toolbar update) and enables Private Writing.

You become the Meeting Host and get access to the Host toolset including a Timer, Polls, Anonymous Mode, and Ready Check. Everyone else is designated as a participant.

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Start Meeting now changes to 'Meeting in Progress', if you click on this again you will see a list of available Facilitator controls:

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<table><thead><tr><th width="228">Meeting Tool</th><th>Function</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Change Tools</td><td>Change the board tools available to meeting participants</td></tr><tr><td>Hosts</td><td>Add or remove hosts to help with your meeting</td></tr><tr><td>Private Writing</td><td>Enabled by default. Show or Hide text on participant sticky notes</td></tr><tr><td>Meeting Timer</td><td>Enable/Disable a timer for your meeting</td></tr><tr><td>Hide Identities</td><td>Create a space for candid feedback by making everyone anonymous</td></tr><tr><td>Ready Check</td><td>Provides a button for participants to mark themselves as ready</td></tr><tr><td>Run Poll</td><td>Anonymously ask your participants a question and view results</td></tr><tr><td>End Meeting</td><td>Finish the meeting</td></tr></tbody></table>

### Changing tools for meeting participants

In the Meeting Tools menu you can adjust what your participants are able to access, these options are grouped in 3 categories, Collaboration, Design, and Gestures.

Click the 'Update' button to apply changes.

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### Share your board

Now that your board is prepped and you've customized your participant experience it's time to invite your participants.

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Click the 'Share' button in the top right of your board. From here you can copy the board link and decide the privacy level of your board (default is Team).

Once a participant joins your board, you will see their avatar moving around the board in real-time!

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### Editing a board during a meeting

When a meeting is started, Super Lock is enabled for everyone on the board, meaning locked objects cannot be selected and edited, which is great for preventing any accidental changes.

If the Meeting Host needs to make changes to the board, they can switch Super Lock to participants only, and then update locked board objects.

The Host can also expand their left toolbar at any time to access the board layout tools. Participants' toolbar will remain as the collaboration tools. This allows you (the host) to make on-the-fly changes to their board and meeting structure to add more Templates, Zones, Gadgets, Shapes and more.

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### Ending your Meeting

Once the last of the confetti has popped and you've completed the best meeting you've ever had, click on the 'Meeting in Progress' indicator at the top of your screen and select 'End Meeting'.

Ending a meeting puts you back in to Design Mode. Your boards are stored in your dashboard indefinitely, they do not expire or auto-delete.

You can also rate Ludi at the end of your meeting - we read all of our meeting reviews, so please do leave a rating and if there's anything we can improve, let us know.

### Exporting meeting insights

Need to get all of those great meeting actions and insights into another platform? You can export board data by clicking on your board name and selecting Export. For a more detailed information on this, take a look at our [Export your board guide.](https://docs.ludi.co/boards/export-your-board)

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These are just the basics for running a session in Ludi, use our guides in the left hand menu to discover more great ways to create and host meetings with your team and guests in Ludi. Most importantly, have fun! :tada: