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```{title} Session History
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# Session History

Administrators can view historic sessions by visiting the Sessions / History page from the Admin panel.

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**Session History**
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Clicking the arrow for the session will present a list of potential actions:

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**Options**
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- **Download** - Downloads all the video files for the historic section in a ZIP file.
- **Preview** - Opens a popup that allows you to preview the video files for the session. It also gives information such as duration and allows you to download individual clips.


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**Session Preview**
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## Recording sessions

In order to record sessions there are a couple of steps that need to be followed.

### Set up S3 Storage

Storage must be set up first, if you are using persistent profiles, this may already be done as the same credentials are used for both.

### Set the recording location

Set the session recording details, defaults are set for most of the inputs, but you will need to specify the upload location.

### Enable session recording in group settings

The final piece of the puzzle is to enable session recording in group settings. Go to Access Management / Groups, Edit the group you want to record. Click the Settings tab, Click Add Settings button and type `record_sessions` then set the value to True and Click Submit