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title: Guide: Run a P2P coaching study
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A P2P coaching study pairs one fast annotator with a small group — typically 3 to 6 people — for a couple of weeks, and measures whether the group's Annotate Speed moves. This guide walks the whole round.

## 1. Shortlist the people to coach

Open your project and go to **Metrics ▸ Productivity**. The user breakdown table at the bottom carries the numbers the choice is made on: Annotate Speed, correction ratio, time allocation, days worked and **Training sessions**.

In **Advanced filters**, narrow to the people worth coaching — for example **Training sessions** "less than 2 sessions" to skip anyone who has been coached recently, and **Reported time** "more than 8 hours" to skip anyone with too little activity to judge. Sort by Annotate Speed to find the slowest of what is left.

Hover a **Training sessions** count to see which rounds someone was already in, and whether they are booked into one that hasn't started yet, shown as (+n).

## 2. Create the study from the selection

Tick the users you picked. The batch bar reads "N users selected" and offers **Create study** — click it and the create dialog opens with those people already added as members.

Fill in:

- **Study type**: P2P coaching.
- **Name**.
- **Period**: two weeks by default.
- **Coach**: the list is ordered by Annotate Speed, fastest first, and shows the number each candidate was ranked on. Pick someone clearly faster than the group.

Select **Create**. You can also start from the **Study** tab with **Create new study** and pick members by name there.

## 3. Follow the study

Open the study from the **Study** tab. The cards at the top show each metric and how far it has moved since the study started; Annotate Speed is the one to watch, and it also has a chart per member. The charts plot the group against the project baseline — everyone else in the project — so a project-wide change doesn't read as coaching.

A study needs at least 2 working days of data before it shows a change, and a change only gets a colour when it is bigger than the group's normal day-to-day movement.

## 4. Adjust the group

Use **Manage members** to add or remove people while the study runs. The same **Training sessions** column is shown there, excluding the study you opened it from.

## 5. Plan the next round

Back on **Metrics ▸ Productivity**, everyone from the finished study now counts one session higher, so the "less than 2 sessions" shortlist moves on to the next group by itself. On the **Study** tab, filter the list by **Type**, **Coach** or **Status** to find earlier rounds and compare.


## Running P2P across several projects

This guide plans one round inside one project. If you are responsible for coaching across an organization, start from **Team Management ▸ P2P Sessions** instead.

Its **Coverage** tab lists every active project with the gap between its fastest and slowest fifth of annotators, whether a session is expected there, and whether one is already running — so the choice of project is made from the numbers rather than from memory. **Auto-suggest** on a row opens a planner that composes the groups and creates a study for each of them in one go, which replaces steps 1 and 2 above when a project needs more than one group.

**Reviews due** then tracks which studies report this week, and **Impact** carries what previous rounds changed, per project and per coach.