Live from start to finish.

At a glance

What "synchronous" means here

A pathway is the product of two independent dimensions. Synchronous is the combination of a live entry and a facilitated completion — webinar, in-person, or hybrid session, run straight through both parts.

Staffing

Never run a session alone

Before the session

What has to be true before you start

How you promote your event, which channels you use, and how far ahead you open registration are yours to decide—you know your community better than we do. What follows is not a schedule. It is the short list of things that must be true by the time you begin, whatever route you took to get there.

• A co-host is confirmed by name. Not "someone will help"—a specific person who knows they are co-hosting because the lead host cannot pace the agenda and fix ADA accounts at the same time.
• Your participant list is started, not planned. Whatever registrations you have are already on your registration & attendance sheet before the session, so the day-of work is adding walk-ins rather than building the list from scratch.
• The room or the link has been tested. Connectivity, devices, screen sharing, and audio—checked by you, on the actual setup, not assumed.
• Materials are open and ready. Intro deck, the ADA walkthrough with its screenshot fallback for when the platform is slow, and a few discussion prompts you can offer when the room goes quiet.
• Participants know what to bring. A device and an active email they can open during the session. Tell them an ADA account created beforehand saves about 20 minutes on the day—and ask those who already have one to bring the email address they used for it.
• You know who follows up. Some participants will leave at the Part 1 exit point and finish on their own. Decide before the session who owns them afterward.

Running the session

Budget time generously

• Part 1 — Orientation & onboarding ≈ 45 min

  Program intro, ADA account creation and enrollment, the pre-course evaluation, and Module 1. The co-host handles account problems one-to-one so the agenda keeps moving.

• After ADA account creation — the ADA email check ≈ 5 min

  Anyone who created their ADA account today submits the email they actually used especially if it is not the one they gave you at registration. Run this after ADA enrollment and before you announce the exit point.

• The Part 1 exit point — announce it out loud

  Say explicitly that participants may leave here and finish the rest on their own. The co-host records exactly who leaves. Their completion type flips to self-paced and they move onto the self-paced follow-up sequence starting the same day.

• Part 2 — Completion ≈ 60+ min

  Modules 2–5, at least one discussion post, then the post-course evaluation and post-course survey. Everyone still in the room should leave with all three completion requirements done.

Close-out

Same day, before you log off

1. Complete your registration & attendance sheet

   One row per participant, carrying both the email they registered with and the email they used on ADA — they are frequently different, and only the ADA one matches the completion record. Copy it exactly as typed. This is the only moment the data is cheap to collect.

2. Set the completion type for every participant

   Facilitated for those who finished live; self-paced for Part 1 leavers. Mark no-shows. No participant is deleted or moved to another list.

3. Send the Day 0 message to every self-paced participant

   Assigned Champions send it the same day, while motivation is still fresh — course link, the three completion requirements, and the Day 7 target date.

4. Log new questions and issues

   Anything asked twice belongs in the FAQ. Anything that blocked the agenda belongs in your report to the Program Lead.

Other modes

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