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1. Figure 8 Contacting Qualified Participants Viewing Your Studies To view your studies and not the studies of others choose the My Studies option on the top toolbar The system will list all your studies in alphabetical order by study name grouped by studies that are active then inactive studies y Microsoft Internet Explorer E S10 X File Edit View Favorites Tools Help ay 7A vi 5 Q O i 2 Pesewc Seron Queso O C SB a View Your Uncredited Timeslots a i Visible to Study Information Participants View iti Study Info Cognition Test 1 Credit x Timeslots Color Test 1 Credit Stud il ity i ly Info ton will test your ability to see colors in different levels of v Tiai EXp A 1 Credit x Study Info here is a Timeslots Exp B 1 Credit x Study Info B exp Timeslots Friends or Not 1 Credit A Study Info Watch the show Friends and give your feedback Timeslots a Study Info Mamoy Exporssent Gcash A Part 1 Timeslots 5 Part 2 Timeslots My New Experiment 1 Credit x Study Info This text will show on the listing of experiments Timeslots Study Info No Desc 1 Credit x Timeslots Numeric Computation Test 1 Credit Study Info Students will be asked to compute some numbers without A gt ec Weaken i Timeslots Object Perception 1 Credit a Study Info A test of object visu tion at a distance Timeslots Studw Info i Figure 9
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3. If you add a timeslot that will take place outside of normal hours for example at 1 00am the system will provide a warning but will allow it to be scheduled You may not schedule a timeslot to occur after the IRB expiration date for your study if Strict IRB mode is enabled by the administrator The system allows adding timeslots to a study that is not available to participants not active or not approved but it will give a warning because participants are not able to sign up for the timeslot If you are running a web based online study you should create a single timeslot with the participation deadline equal to the last day you would like to run the study For number of participants specify the maximum number of participants who may participate If you are running a web based study and you plan to collect data from more than 999 participants 999 is the maximum allowed in one timeslot then once that timeslot is close to filling up create a second timeslot as a slightly different time and or date as the first timeslot 58 Creating Multiple Timeslots If you would like to add multiple timeslots at once choose the Add Multiple Timeslots link You may choose to add a specified number of timeslots or copy the timeslots from another week to a specified week If you choose to copy the system will copy the time location and number of participants for the specified week to the desired week for each day of that week starting with Mon
4. SUM all may be opted out Section Questions 1 1 3 opt outable Update Question Delete Question 2 10 ont out ndate Question Delete Ouestion Figure 11 Survey Section List Adding or Modifying a Section To add a new section choose the Add New Section link at the bottom of the Section List page To modify an existing section choose the Edit Section Information link next to the section you would like to modify from the Section List page There are three pieces of information you may provide for each section First you may specify some introductory text to be displayed at the beginning of the section When participants take the survey they view one section at a time and all the questions in that section The introductory text may be helpful in explaining the purpose or topic of the questions in that section You may include HTML in this area but please be sure you know what you are doing If you would like to add a carriage return paragraph break simply type in lt p gt without the quotes The introductory text is limited to 15 000 characters You may choose if the questions for that section are displayed in random order or the order in which they are entered You may also choose to have the system compute a section sum or average for each participant for the section These scores are computed only for all the multiple choice numeric questions in a section where only one choice may be chosen Think carefu
5. See Automating Tasks API for information about how to locate the API documentation Input Parameters Below are the following input parameters for use with the WebstudyCredit API function These are included automatically when the system generates the Server Side Completion URL Note the parameters must be specified as part of the URL an HTTP GET and not via an HTTP POST request Parameter Description Possible Values experiment_id The Experiment ID of the study credit_token The credit token used to identify reference the study survey_code The code that identifies the participant from the external web study Error Codes Below are the possible error messages encountered and their respective descriptions If the request was successful there will not be an Error object returned and only a Result object See Sample Output for an example 36 Error Type Error Code Description Authentication failed 0 unspecified error Invalid experiment_id 1 An invalid experiment_id value has been entered Invalid credit_token 2 An invalid credit_token value has been entered Participant already granted 3 The participant has already been credit granted credit Participant already marked 4 The participant has already participated participated Participant not eligible no 5 The participant is not eligible for show credit Invalid survey_code 6 An invalid survey_code value has been entere
6. Type in the participant s User ID you may have to ask them for this and click Sign Up If enabled you may also choose to sign up a participant using their unique ID code You may also have the choice to enter their last name and choose from a list of participants In all cases after submitting the form you will see a confirmation page that also lists any restrictions on the study Choose Sign Up to complete the sign up File Edit View Favorites Tools Help a Qm O 2 A Al Deva Serve Gee OOS B Sign Up Restrictions Participant must have signed up or completed these studies A Expertise in Tactile Pattern Recognition False Math Interruptions OK Participant must NOT have signed up or completed these studies e Object Discrimination OK Spatial Localization False Are you SURE you want to sign up Identity Code 28804 for the study Numeric Computation Test on M December 20 2002 1 00 PM 1 30 P Sign Up E Cancel Figure 18 Manual Sign Up Confirmation If you are subject to timeslot time usage restrictions the system will enforce them and prevent you from signing up a participant in the timeslot if that would result in exceeding your timeslot usage limit If you are doing a manual sign up for a two part study you must do a manual sign up for each part separately The system will overlook the scheduling range restrictions as well You cannot use the manual sign up feature for online survey stud
7. click the Credit Granted button next to their name this text may appear as Participated if the study is set up for payment If the participant did not appear for the timeslot you may choose to mark their no show as excused or unexcused Depending on how your system is configured an unexcused no show may result in a penalty being assessed for the participant the system will compute this automatically or their privileges to use the system may be restricted You should ask your administrator for guidelines about when to grant an excused no show or an unexcused no show Generally excused no shows are granted for extenuating circumstances like if the participant was involved in a car accident on their way to the appointment An unexcused no show is generally used when the participant did not show up and had no reasonable excuse For most schools the majority of no shows are unexcused and are due to carelessness on the part of participants 65 Depending on how your system is configured you may see an option to grant a credit value that is different from the standard credit grant This is useful when you want to grant a participant a lower credit value because they left the study early if they deserve a lower credit grant or a higher credit value if the study ran longer than expected The default value that is selected is the study s standard credit value If this is enabled then you may also grant 0 credits This is useful if you do not wa
8. e other sections of the form Study Information Study Name My New Study Brief Abstract optional Detailed Description optional Eligibility Requirements None Duration 35 are Figure 5 Deleting a Study 23 To delete a study choose My Studies from top toolbar click on the desired study then choose the Delete Study option You will see a confirmation page Choose Yes at the bottom of the page to delete the study Once a study is deleted it cannot be restored so use this feature very carefully If you delete an online survey study the survey and all data collected will also be deleted Timeslot Usage Summary The timeslot usage summary is available when viewing your study This gives some basic information about timeslot utilization in the past and in the future as well as some basic no show information It also gives information on timeslots for the study by location if the study is not an online survey study or external web study and by researcher if the study is configured to allow researchers to be assigned to specific timeslots For credit studies the system also provides a summary of how many credits were granted This summary accurately computes credit usage taking into account any variable credit grants if Variable Credit Granting is enabled in System Settings where some participants may have received credit in a different amount than the study s listed credit value If timeslot u
9. Many statistical analysis programs limit column names to 15 characters Question Type Multiple Choice select one Multiple 46 Choice select many or Free Entry If the section has a computed average or sum you may be limited in your ability to add Multiple Choice select one non numeric questions Free entry choices may contain a response up to 255 characters in length Display length of Free Entry field Specifies the length size of a free entry field when it is displayed Acceptable values for this setting are 5 85 and the field will always allow participants to type in up to 255 characters The height of the field cannot be adjusted and this setting only applies to Free Entry questions Display choices in random order If set to Yes the choices for this question will be displayed to participants in a random order This option only applies to multiple choice questions How should the choices be displayed Horizontal across the page or vertical down the page are the two options for how the choices for a multiple choice question should be displayed Often the horizontal display is effective when the question involves a scale This setting applies only to multiple choice questions Can participants decline to provide an answer for this question If set to Yes participants will see a choice below this question that allows them to opt out of answering the question If set to N
10. Your Studies 28 Participant Study View If you would like to see how your study appears when participants view it find your study and choose the Participant Study View option This will show exactly how the study appears to participants with the exception that when a participant views a study next to each pre requisite and disqualifier study for a study is listed a status indicator about whether they have met that requirement In Participant Study View the pre requisite and disqualifier studies are listed but there is no status indicator next to each study in the list If for some reason you think your study is not visible to participants it may be due to various restrictions you have set on the study like prescreen participation restrictions such that few or none of the participants in the pool qualify You can ask the administrator to use the Check Study Configuration tool available to them when they view your study to provide advice on why your study may or may not be visible to participants Administrators there also have an option to type in a specific participant to see if that participant would qualify for your study Viewing Other Studies To view all studies that are visible to participants choose the All Studies option from the top toolbar You will see a list first of all Active studies These studies will show up to participants on the list of available studies The next group of studies if there are any is Inact
11. all studies available to participants Add New Study create a new study Figure 2 Main Menu Your login also known as a session will expire after a certain period of inactivity usually 20 minutes This is done for security purposes If this happens you can always log in again When you are done using the system it is better to explicitly log out to prevent any problems that may arise if someone uses your computer before the session expires Retrieving a Lost Password If you have forgotten or do not have your password and the feature is enabled on the system then you may choose to have your password emailed to you You will see an option on the main login page if this feature is enabled Your password will be emailed after you submit the form and should arrive in your email box momentarily If you provided an alternate email address see the Email Address Options section of this documentation it will be sent there Otherwise it will be sent to your main email address which is derived from your user ID If you requested that the system email a password to you and it has not arrived after 30 minutes then check in your email program s junk mail folder in case the email was delivered there Logging Out When you are done using the system choose Logout from the top toolbar to log out You are now logged out It is always a good security practice to close all your web browser windows as well especially if you are usin
12. approved If they select Yes to Email Approval Notice and they approve the study set Approved to Yes at the same time then an email will be sent to all researchers for the study to notify them that their study was just approved Active Study Select Yes if this study is in progress You must select Yes and the study must be Approved if you want the study to show up to participants so they can sign up for it If a study is Not Approved but is Active then it does not show up to participants on the listing of studies but it is accessible through other links if the participant has participated in it before and they are viewing their participation history in case the participant has follow up questions about the study It will also show up on the study information page for an individual study when it is listed as a pre requisite or disqualifier for a study The reason to select No is if the study is being kept for historical purposes but should not show up to participants on the 19 list of studies they may sign up for Often this is done so the system can enforce pre requisites where the inactive study is a pre requisite for an active study Should the Researcher receive an email notification when a participant signs up or cancels If set to Yes the researcher for this study will receive an email notification whenever a participant signs up or cancels their sign up for this study The
13. as https yourschool sona systems com webstudy credit aspx experiment id 170 amp credit token 9 185d436e5f 94b1581b0918162f6d7e8 amp survey code PASSTHRU id 4 Note that if after saving the End URL you see an amp amp in place of amp in the End URL field then you need to instead set this value while logged into LimeSurvey as an administrator This is due to a bug in LimeSurvey bug 7827 5 In LimeSurvey set Automatically load URL when survey complete to Yes on General Settings Presentation amp Navigation This is due to a bug in LimeSurvey 34 bug 7826 where the survey code will not be properly passed through if this setting is set to No These features are described on LimeSurvey s site at the following URL e http manual limesurvey org wiki URL_fields URL Fields External Study Credit Granting with Inquisit Inquisit is a product offered by Millisecond Software and the instructions below apply to Inquisit Web Edition only Here are the basic steps which are subject to change since the product is controlled by Millisecond 1 In the system change the Study URL so it includes SURVEY CODE in the URL So if the Inquisit URL is http research millisecond com myexperiment web then change it to http research millisecond com myexperiment web survey code sSURVEY CODE 2 In Inquisit use the webscript registration wizard to configure the survey to a
14. be logged out after 15 minutes of inactivity Inactivity would happen if they load up a section of questions but do not complete and save their responses for that section within that period of time It is a good idea to structure sections accordingly especially if a section contains lengthy text or complex questions Questions may be free entry requiring the participant to type in an answer or multiple choice pick only one or pick many from the list of choices You may also specify that the system computes a participant s results for an entire section as either a section sum or average score This computed sum or average can be computed only for numeric multiple choice pick only one questions in the section Such a computation is often useful when a participant s aggregate score is more important such as with a depression battery For free entry questions where the participant is asked to enter a free form text answer the size of the entry field as it is displayed cannot be resized in terms of dimensions only by length Participants may enter up to 255 characters in their response 40 Sections can be displayed in a specified order or random order or a combination of both Every section may contain introductory text introducing the section and the survey itself may also have introductory text introducing the survey as well as closing text that is displayed upon completion of the survey You may specify that questions within
15. cannot go back at a later date and change any responses It may be useful to set this option to No so that they are not allowed to review or change their responses at the end of the survey if sections are somehow dependent on one another such that allowing participants to change their responses may affect the integrity of data collection 43 7 0 0 1 Survey General Information Microsoft Internet Explorer Favorites Tools Help Qa O x ia Als Search Se Favorites O oy te A 8 3 Google v amp Searchweb g2 E eutoril Pa Options g The information below is some general information about the survey The introductory text is optional The closing text is also optional If provided it is displayed after the survey has been completed and all responses have been saved This is an ideal place for debriefing information Survey Information Introductory Text This survey will ask your opinions about pictures and words optional that are associated with those pictures Closing Text optional Thanks for participating The goal of this study was to analyze your attitudes towards different types of sneakers ial 5 _ No section order will be specified Display sectonsiut C Some sections in random order some in specified order C Yes all sections in random order E Done Figure 10 Survey General Information Section List Depending on if you are adding or editing the
16. course restrictions duration preparation credit value for credit studies only There will be a notice on the Change Study Information to warn if re approval may be required and they system will also notify you after making changes if the study is now in need of re approval 22 If you need to change the credit value for a study and there is no option to do so this means the study already has at least one participant signed up for it You cannot change the credit value when a study is in this situation because there is no easy way to handle past credits for the same study e g should old credit grants for the same study be adjusted to reflect the new credit value or kept the same If the study is nearing the end of its run and variable credit granting is enabled then the easiest solution is to grant the new credit value to participants who sign up in the future If you prefer that the credit value is changed for the entire study contact the administrator who can make the change for you Note that if the study s credit value is changed while there are pending sign ups those participants are not notified of this change so you will need to notify those participants of the change in credit value if necessary Deleting a Study You may delete a study only if participants have not signed up for it If you need to delete a study which already has sign ups you should make it Inactive instead if you do not want it to be visible to p
17. for students to participate in Participation in the pretest is optional Response Summary ion 1 We would like to ask some basic informatoin about you Section Sum Score for Student 13 1 How many times a week do you visit the library Multiple choice question Question is part of computed score for section Students may decline to answer this question Response 3 2 Do you know anyone with a history of alcoholism in their family Multiple choice question Question is part of computed score for section Response 10 Section 2 SLIM_ all mav he anted nut Figure 21 Viewing a Prescreen Granting or Revoking Credit At the completion of a session you should promptly deal with the participants in the system to ensure proper credit grants The reason for the prompt handling of this situation is in the event your study is a pre requisite for another study and a few other situations You do not want to hold up other studies that are waiting on your response to the study you just ran To grant or revoke credit for a timeslot you must first find the desired study and timeslot To view your studies choose the My Studies option from the top toolbar Click on the Edit link in the timeslots column for the desired study then select the timeslot you would like to see and click the Modify button You will see a list of participants identified either by name or ID code If the participant properly participated in the study
18. from participation File Edit view Favorites Tools Help a Om O x A Gl Dawe re Gu O Ar A Participation restrictions may be placed on an experiment based on a student s pretest responses Students will be unaware that the experiment has such restrictions placed on it They will see only the experiments for which they qualify and none of the experiments for which they do not qualify Pretest questions that may be used as part of an experiment restriction must be multiple choice questions so only eligible questions are listed below In addition the pretest may have been configured such that a sum or average score was computed for an entire section for each student Those will also be listed if there are any If a student signs up for this experiment there will be an option to view that student s entire set of responses to the pretest Listed below are all questions that are eligible for participation restrictions Check the items that you would like to based the experiment s restrictions upon and on the subsequent page there will be the option to define these restrictions down to specific responses for each question Section 1 Computed Sum Score for Section 1 We would like to ask some basic informatoin about you I How many times a week do you visit the library This question is used as part of the section sum computation M Do you know anyone with a history of alcoholism in their family This question is us
19. in the future Once the timeslot they have signed up for is in the past they no longer have access to the study URL This is done to prevent participants from accidentally clicking on the URL in a subsequent semester and participating in the study twice This restriction regarding viewing the study URL applies only to participants and only to web based studies administered outside the system Online external studies are discussed in more detail in the section Online External Studies later in this document Online survey studies surveys administered by the system are discussed in great detail in the section Online Survey Studies later in this document Please read it carefully before setting up an online survey study Studies for Pay You may have a situation where participants are compensated for their participation in the study They may or may not also receive credit for the study If the study is not for credit you may set it up as a pay only study and specify the compensation amount If participants are compensated and they receive credit you should set it up as a credit study and indicate additional compensation in the study s information section Regardless of the type of study after a participant participates in a study including studies that are for pay only you should still go into the system and indicate their participation by noting their participation or no show when viewing their sign up This allows the system to properly
20. linked to them for that study will be changed so all researchers for the study are now responsible for those timeslots To use this feature the system must be configured to allow multiple researchers per study Then the study itself must be configured to allow researchers to be linked to specific timeslots Finally the study must have more than one researcher connected to it Creating Timeslots To add a timeslot for a study you must first choose the study that you would like to add a timeslot for To view your studies choose the My Studies option on the top toolbar Click on the desired study and choose the Timeslots choice You will see a list of any existing timeslots and the Add A Timeslot option at the bottom of the page Click on Add A Timeslot 56 la x File Edit View Favorites Tools Help ay Om O A G Dawe ere Sm 5 a Google search web Eh 9510blocked Eg Options Timeslot Usage Already Used Hours 21 Scheduled Hours 9 5 Total Hours 30 5 Usage Limit Hours 35 Available Time Hours 4 5 Use this page to add a single timeslot for your study You may also Add Multiple Timeslots at once Timeslot Information Date September 29 z 2005 Start Time 5 30 PM End Time of Participants 1 FAS 202 C hd View Schedule OR type in below 30 minutes after start time Location but do not do both Add This Timeslot select a locat
21. making the study available to participants If you have restriction requirements where you would like to restrict participation to a percentage of the population for instance the responses that were chosen by the top 25 of people but you are not sure which responses meet this requirement you can use the prescreen response analysis feature to determine the valid responses See Prescreen Response Analysis for more information You may also use Analyzing Prescreen Responses to get an idea of how many participants are potential candidates for participation in your study based on a specified set of restrictions eriment Pretest Restrictio osoft Inte plo la x Edit View Favorites Tools Help oe Om 2 A A me fnew Que Os B Listed below are the restrictions you have chosen Please check each specific choice for each question that you would like to restrict the experiment on To qualify to participate in an experiment students must have answered one choice in each question If you have chosen to restrict based on the sum or average computed score for a section you will see all possibilities within the allowable range of responses computed down to 1 decimal point where applicable Changes will take effect immediately after they are saved Students who qualified for the experiment under the previous set of restrictions will not have their sign up removed We would like to ask some basic informatoin about you C
22. number of hours old and where the researcher has taken no action You can always change the automatic credit grant later if it was in error The automatic credit grant takes place once a day usually overnight Your administrator can let you know if such a feature is enabled on your system If you need to do a simple credit grant or no show across many timeslots see the Uncredited Timeslots section which offers such a feature Batch Credit Granting In some cases you may wish to automatically sign up and immediately credit a group of participants This is often useful if you administered a study on an ad hoc basis and you want to credit participants after the fact To do so go to the appropriate timeslot you may want to create a timeslot specifically for this purpose and click on Modify Timeslot In the Manual Sign Up section if enabled you will see a Batch Credit Grant link Click that and you can provide the list of User IDs of users you would like to sign up and credit Users will be signed up and 66 credited immediately This feature overrides any sign up restrictions on the study just as a normal manual sign up does File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Qm O h GO Dawe Seres Qe O L a B Pa l You may use this form to manually sign up and grant credit to a set of participants for this timeslot You may only sign up 2 participant s because there are currently only 2 available spaces for thi
23. page you may see a link to request an account This form is only for participants Do not use this form to request an account as participant accounts have an entirely different set of privileges and the privileges are not appropriate for a researcher Z Welcome to the Human Subject Pool System Microsoft Internet Explorer Ele Edit View Favorites Tools Help O x 2 7 search Se Favorites GA media le a University Psychology Department Welcome to the Human Subject Pool System User Name yourschool edu Password Login If you have trouble logging in please contact admirtyourschool edu Email questions tO admingyourschool edu Copyright 1997 2003 Sona Systems Ltd Figure 1 Login Page Once you login you may be asked to review and acknowledge your organization s human subject policy If required by the administrator you will need to acknowledge this once every 6 months You will see the Main Menu after you acknowledge the policy rt Int O File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Oa O x A A seah Favorites QP meds A 2 i A My Studies All Studies Add New Study Pretest Results My Profle F System Message NOTE You have 1 timeslot s more than 2 days old that have not been dealt with click here to view My Studies view and edit all your studies view add or change timeslots grant or deny participant credit All Studies view
24. provide a link to the document in the email you send If you have set participation restrictions for the study based on course enrollment those restrictions will be taken into consideration i e abided by when determining which participants receive the email There is also an option to choose a random percentage from the overall list of matching participants to email It is important to understand that the system does not keep track of which random percentage of the group of matching participants is sent to each time so that if you send to a random 30 now and a random 30 an hour later it could very well be the case that many participants receive the email on both those occasions The From sender address on the email will be the administrator email address which is done to prevent the email from being blocked by junk email filters The Reply To address of the email will be that of the user who is actually sending the email so when a user chooses to reply to the email the reply will be sent to that the reply to address Finally there is an option to specify a delay in sending the email based on the number of hours from when the emailing option is used This is useful if you want to target a certain time of day e g during the evenings when the email will be sent The emails are generated at the time you use the emailing facility but are stored on the server s outgoing email queue until the specified sending time They canno
25. question name Since there is no facility to specify an abbreviated question name for the computed section sum mean item the system automatically assigns a unique name to those columns The naming convention is SECXXX where XXX maps to the system s internal section identifier for that section section_id You can use the question key to determine which question maps to which column The data also includes the exact time the participant started and completed the online survey You can use any common data analysis tool to compute how long it took the participant to complete the survey using this information There is also a column listing how many minutes it took the participant to complete the survey rounded to the nearest minute There will be an option to include only the numeric response portion of questions that are multiple choice with numeric choices This is useful if the numeric question was set up 52 with associated text but that text should not be included in the analysis file One example would be where the response selected was 5 Strongly Agree but only the number 5 and not the associated text is useful during analysis If you choose this option and download data and find that the associated text is included with the numeric response then have a closer look at the survey most likely the question was not actually set up as a numeric question The easiest way to deal with this downloaded data is to use a data analysis too
26. required unless otherwise marked Only the administrator may make a new If you are creating a simple study you only need to complete the Basic Information section More advanced ation options and 2 part studies are available in Study Name My New Study Brief Abstract optional optional Duration 35 minton Credits Credits Pay fractional credits allowed 0 5 1 5 etc 1 Detailed Description as Eligibility Requirements None Ei Preparation None Dacaserchar Figure 4 Adding a New Study To add a study choose the Add New Study option from the top toolbar You will need to pick from four possible types of studies Pleas to change this later e choose this carefully as you are not able After you choose the study type you ll see a form asking for more information You will need to fill out a number of fields which are explained in the following table Some of the fields listed below may not appear depending on how your system is configured and the type of study you selected All fields must be filled out unless otherwise noted Field Explanation Study Name A short name for the study This is how the study is identified throughout the system Most systems are configured so studies show in a random order to participants choose Your Studies on the toolbar and it will state at the bottom of the resulting page if they are displayed in random order so t
27. set of studies where only the final study is credit earning Please see the Studies for Pay section of this documentation for more information on how to fill out this field in the case of for pay studies If the study has a credit value the credit value specified must be evenly divisible by the credit increment specified For example if the increment is 0 5 then the study can have credit values like 1 and 1 5 but not 0 75 Part 2 Duration The amount of time in minutes that part 2 of the study will take Part 2 Scheduling Range Specify the number of days as a range after part 1 is scheduled that part 2 should be scheduled This setting only applies to two part studies The range may be the same value e g between 7 and 7 days if desired but must be a whole number See Two Part Studies for more information Part 2 Scheduling Leniency In some cases you may want to ensure that the participant schedules the second part of the study to take place at exactly the same time on a different date as the first part If so choose Yes for this option If there is some flexibility so they can sign up for any time within the Part 2 Scheduling range choose No for this option Researcher s Select the researcher for this study Most likely this is you and your name will automatically be selected If you are a researcher then you may not change who the researcher is the P I for the study a
28. the client side method You should use only one completion URL to achieve credit granting For most commercial online survey products and also if you are not familiar with programming then the client side completion URL is likely the most appropriate option To avoid confusion the system will only display the client side completion URL if a commercial survey product is being used and is known to support only the client side completion URL To see the completion URLs for your study first ensure the study is set up correctly as an online external study Then enter the URL for the external site in the Study URL field in Change Study Information and save your changes Next click on Change Study Information again and modify the Study URL to include SURVEY CODE in the URL in the appropriate place If you entered the URL for a commercial product like SurveyMonkey Qualtrics or Inquisit then the system will display help text just below the URL with a suggestion for how to include this Save your changes and the Completion URLs should now appear on the resulting study information page In short the Completion URLs will appear as long as there is sSURVEY CODE anywhere in the Study URL The client side completion URL will look something like this http yourschool sona systems com webstudy credit aspx experiment id 170 amp credit token 9185d43 6e5 94b1581b0918162fod7e8 amp survey code XXXX 30 The server side completion URL will loo
29. the online survey so that participants can respond to questions referring to the image or video Yes You will need to have the ability to post images on a webserver most likely at your school and know a small bit of HTML Let s say your graphic is located at http www yourschool edu myimage gif Put this in the place where you want the image to be displayed lt IMG SRC http www yourschool edu myimage gif gt If you re unfamiliar with HTML you may want to ask someone in your IT department for assistance with this You can use a similar process to post videos but you ll need to ask the person in charge of the webserver where you post the video for the best method in HTML for linking to it as there are a few different methods to link to videos 53 You cannot upload images or videos directly onto the Sona Systems server but every university provides a facility to post content on webservers at the school and this method is better for participants also as the data images and videos are usually quite large will be stored on the high speed network within the university Can certain sections be presented for a specified period of time e g 60 seconds No There are technical limitations and inaccuracies in how web browsers interact with web servers as well as internet latency that make this difficult to do so this feature is not offered Can I make an online study a two part study Online studies cannot be two part
30. the section Students taking the survey will see all questions for one section on the same page and the introductory text will be displayed at the top if provided Add Section Display Questions in Random Order Yes No No sum or average score across all questions in section is computed Computed Section Type Average mean score for each participant is computed C Sum score for each participant is computed Introductory Secu Text We would like to ask your opinion about chocolate chip EJ optional cookies Add Section Figure 12 Add New Section Adding or Editing a Question To add or edit a question choose the appropriate choice from the Section List next to the desired section Questions will be displayed in the order they are added to a section or in a random order depending on the section settings Questions cannot be reordered after they are added so this should be planned carefully Depending on the state of the section and if participants have taken the survey some options will be automatically set for you and not changeable All fields must be filled out Field Description Question Text The text for the question This will be displayed above each question s choices Maximum 15 000 characters Abbreviated Question Name A 15 character label for the question This is not displayed to participants and is used to name the columns that appear when the data is exported in CSV format
31. to participate but often the second participant is not a real participant but rather a colleague of the researcher who is colluding with the researcher as part of the study itself You do not need to deal with dyads in the system itself Participants cannot see how many people have signed up for a timeslot nor how many spaces are available for a timeslot So your fake participant can just act like a real participant and the real participant will be unaware of this I have finished running my study What should I do So it does not clutter the list of studies for participants you should make the study Inactive See the Updating a Study section of this documentation for more information 12 Who has access to my studies All users can see the information about your studies and the available timeslots Administrators the principal investigator if applicable and the researchers for the study are the only people who can see who has signed up and modify the study Regulatory Compliance Guidelines Introduction This software complies with all major regulations governing human subject research and privacy of data stored online The system complies with both HIPAA and Common Rule for customers in the United States For customers in Canada it complies with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act as well as the Tri Council Statement For customers in the European Union or in countries that follow
32. value from participants by choosing No to the Display numeric value setting for the question This is useful in reverse scale or other situations where the numeric value for the choices is not important If the choices you specify when adding a question do not conform to the conform to the configuration of the question e g specify a non numeric choice for a numeric question the system may change the question configuration to ensure that the choices are then valid E Question Information Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 loj xj File Edt View Favorites Tools Help ap Q O x 2 7 seach gfe ravortes O S a QB uns Google GB search web 3 E eutoril Fa Options g Question Text Please rate how you feel about red sneakers abbreviated Question SNEAKI not displayed to participants C Free Entry Question Type Multiple Choice only one choice may be selected C Multiple Choice multiple choices may be selected Display choices in random order only applies to multiple choice questions ves No How should the choices f be displayed vertical down the page only applies to multiple Horizontal across the page choice questions Can students decline to provide an answer for Yes No this question Are all choices numeric only applies to multiple choice questions Yes No Display numeric value only applies to m
33. you are a researcher this contact information will be displayed to participants when they view information about the study If you are a principal investigator this contact information will be displayed if a participant explicitly chooses to view it since the researcher is the primary point of contact for a study Researchers but not PIs may also choose to receive a daily reminder by email with information about all of their study sessions scheduled for the following day Email Address Options There are certain events in the system which will cause an email notification to be sent to you Most often these are notifications that a participant has signed up or cancelled their sign up for your studies but there are a few other cases where it may be used as well The email address is also displayed to the participant when they view information about the study in case they need to contact you with questions You have two choices for your email address When you update your personal information you will see a box where you may provide an alternate email address If you provide such an address this could be a Gmail account for instance this is the address where any notifications will be sent and this is also the address that will be displayed to other users including participants in your studies If you do not supply an alternate email address the system will derive your email address from your username Typically it will add your or
34. 0918162f6d7e8 These features are described on SurveyMonkey s site at the following URLs e http help2 surveymonkey com articles en_US SurveyMonkeyArticleType Can I pass a unique ID through the link and then through a redirect URL Can I pass a unique ID through the link and then through a redirect URL e http help2 surveymonkey com articles en_US SurveyMonkeyArticleT ype Can I redirect respondents to a different website upon completion Can I redirect respondents to a different website upon completion The SurveyMonkey Completion URL provided by the system should be sufficient to paste directly into SurveyMonkey If you prefer to derive the URL from the Client Side Completion URL then you simply need to remove the amp c XXXxX from the end of Client Side Completion URL and place the remaining text in SurveyMonkey External Study Credit Granting with Qualtrics With Qualtrics it is best to follow the URL listed below that describes the process in detail on the Qualtrics website In that document panel company refers to our system and you will only need to focus on the Complete Response Link The Screen Out Link and Over Quota links are not applicable or implemented in this situation Here are the basic steps which are subject to change since the product is controlled by Qualtrics 1 In the system change the Study URL so it includes SURVEY CODE in the URL So if the Qualtrics URL is
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36. OECD rules it complies with OECD privacy rules and the European Union Directive of Data Protection Your organization may or may not need to comply with the relevant regulations Your subject pool administrator can advise you on this situation Even if you are not required to comply compliance is still a good idea as protecting sensitive data is always a good thing Compliance in the context of this system is as simple as reading the remaining paragraphs of this section that apply to your organization and following the guidelines contained therein The remaining compliance issues involving software privacy and electronic data storage are all handled automatically by the software You should still consult with your IRB or organization to learn about additional compliance rules you must follow outside of use of this software the handling of the data you collect during your study would be one example Some regulations particularly the US HIPAA regulations are focused primarily on health data You may think the system does not store confidential health data in HIPAA terms it is called PHI Protected Health Information but depending on how your organization uses the software there may very well be confidential data in the system Consider the case of a study that requires that a participant come from a family that has a history of mental illness Merely knowing who signed up for that study can be considered confidential because that type of i
37. RL is http limesurvey yourschool edu index php 651365 lang en then change it to http limesurvey yourschool edu index php 651365 lang en id SURVEY CODE 2 In LimeSurvey configure the survey to accept the survey code number as URL Parameter named id To do this go to General Settings Panel Integration and add the URL parameter there with no target question Remember to use lower case as this is case sensitive and be sure to click Save for both the new parameter and panel settings 3 In LimeSurvey configure the End URL in Edit Text Elements and provide the LimeSurvey End URL from the system The LimeSurvey URL should look something like this https yourschool sona systems com webstudy credit aspx experiment id 170 amp credit token 9 185d436e5 94b1581b0918162f6d7e8ssurvey code PASSTHRU id If and only if you do not see a LimeSurvey End URL in the system then proceed with the rest of this step Otherwise proceed to the next step In LimeSurvey configure the End URL in Edit Text Elements and provide the Client Side Completion URL from the system However you need to change the XXXX at the end of the URL and instead have LimeSurvey put in the survey_code number passed as a pass through variable So if the client side completion URL was https yourschool sona systems com webstudy credit aspx experiment id 170 amp credit token 9 185d436e5 94b1581b0918162f6d7e8 amp survey_ code xxxx then enter it in LimeSurvey
38. Sona Systems Ltd Researcher s User Manual Sy SACRAMENTO STATE Department of Psychology Psychology Research Website User s Manual For Researchers and Principal Investigators P I Adapted with permission from Sona Systems Ltd EXPERIMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Version 2 76 Copyright 2013 Sona Systems Ltd All Rights Reserved RESEARCHER P I DOCUMENTATION 2 sicbaiseaigeseis sosiadures ete dagabeauedbtedatsakeuaaiuabedaadains 4 LDN in 076 10 Coy ATE Nne neea te CONC cr er nese E hon EOE E e a OU ee Or E ne nee A E nan 4 System AS ASICS accretion aaieata ithe chen a e atts Moa ek dls 4 Principal Investigator Special Note 23 iceite ise eevee as eviews eee 4 Participant 1D Codes Special Note sistis ineine t e e te 4 Getting Started eni se n aE E E A RR A R E G R AANS 4 MEGS SUNS lienne a a a a a a a a a S 5 Retrieving a Lost Password 22 4 cca oie ed elt a A pea el 6 LOS SING Qtee ene E EE sas A A E AS E A EA A AETS 6 Changing Your Password and Other Information eesseeeseseeseesresseeressersresressereresrreseese 6 Ema AO eS OOS 2a oe seste tion Sake oma E EE ae Sav eae hee Gaede oes 7 Working with Studies c csc scsis coadesecesossaatecenicciavesdecttanjsieaaavacanvscagsaasaouseaesvadeaeda neasadeadasteaeaune 8 Web Based Online Studies ccccsessssccecccecessessnccecececeeeessnsececesecseseesssaaeeeseseeseneeas 8 Studies POL Ay isos hearts E E use tamara daha bers eee gem aet cer omed aay tat e
39. Timeslots Modifying and Deleting Timeslots To modify or delete a timeslot for a study you must first choose the study that you would like to deal with To view your studies choose the My Studies link from the top toolbar Choose the Timeslots option in the timeslots column for the desired study You will see a list of all recent timeslots Recent timeslots in the past with no participants signed up will not be displayed To work with timeslots more than a few days old and to see all timeslots you will see a link to view all timeslots for the study Select the timeslot you would like to deal with and click the Modify button If the timeslot has no participants signed up for it you will see a Delete button You may not delete a timeslot that has participants signed up for it you need to first cancel all 59 existing signups for the timeslot If you would like to delete the timeslot click the Delete button and you will see a confirmation page Choose Delete again to delete the timeslot If you would like to modify the timeslot modify the desired information and click the Update button just below the timeslot information It should be noted that participants will not be notified by email of any changes you make to the timeslot so you should contact them if information needs to be passed on to them a link is provided on the same page to do so If you change the date or time of the timeslot you will be warned that this was changed in ca
40. a section are displayed in random order If you do not specify random ordering for questions in a section then the questions will be displayed in each section in the order they were entered and cannot be reordered later Multiple choice questions can have their choices displayed in the entered order or random order this is specified on a per question basis Multiple choice question choices can be displayed horizontally across the page or vertically down the page It is important to realize that while the survey feature is quite extensive there are some things it does not support It cannot do timings where the speed of a participant s response typically in milliseconds to each question needs to be measured It also cannot do branching where the questions being presented to a participant will vary depending on their answer to other questions within that same survey an example being asking a question like Do you smoke cigarettes and then presenting a different set of questions based on their response The reason advanced features like this are not currently supported is that our software is primarily a subject pool software product that happens to have an online survey feature within it We asked our customers which features in an online survey were most important to them and those features exist within the product There are numerous products on the market specifically for doing online surveys with no subject pool component whic
41. aastanamects 9 Two Part SUUGIES e GG heii Ca eeu See lire oe ee Bee aa RENA 9 Two Part Study Configuration Scenarios 00 ceescecesseceececeeeeeceeceecseeeecseeeeeseeeesaes 10 Aig A StU y sunne trana Weaene e E E lessanes adaede buuadeaaeasuseaesedeecdaas 10 Melati aS CUNY sea ncccee ccs un aaa n a a r A 22 Deleting a Std Vaccine rece teak ceca alee eda eee ree 23 Timeslot Usage Summary aissei erie anea aE ASAN ss EATE EE EE aSa 24 B lk Mail S mma yenen nenea a guts taoetsesateegeonackoncuelenss 24 Prescreen Participation Restrictions sssssessseesssesesseeessetesseessetsseesseeesseeesseessesseesset 24 Inviting Qualified Participants to a Study eseesseeeeesesesesressessresressrssrssrersessresressesee 26 Viewing Your St di S serrie iio e na a E AS E aah s E EEEE AEE Eie 28 Participant Study VIC W secissaseisiscecessi ches aacase deaesaseavieasisdyaacen coasadaasaevnucadecaceusdececenspensdees 29 Wie WIM OCS ES UNIS Saco us e e amena eis tac AE a cae sconces saaay ache ates 29 Online External Studies srd onto ie aie aaa E i a Ques wees 29 External Study Credit Granting eses nnan 30 External Study Credit Granting with SurveyMonkey ec ceeseesceeseeeeseeeeneeeteeeees 31 External Study Credit Granting with Qualtrics oo eeeceseeseeesseecseeceseeeeeeeeneeenaeees 32 External Study Credit Granting with SurveyGizmo 2 0 0 cee ceeeeeseesseceseeeeeeeeneeenaeees 33 External Study Credit Granting with LimeSurvey eess
42. ain cases where such an option is not available because of a lack of available timeslots to delete After going to that page you will see a list of timeslots eligible for deletion Choose the timeslots you would like to delete and choose Delete Selected Timeslots to proceed If you would like to delete all empty timeslots there is a Select All option at the bottom of this page that will automatically select all timeslots listed on the page for deletion Click the Reset button to revert the effect of choosing the Select All option The system routinely deletes all empty timeslots more than 3 months old to preserve database space 60 E Delete timeslots Microsoft Internet Explorer S15I2 File Edit View Favorites Tools Help a Q x A Pseach Pe Favorites Queda 2 S A Links Delete Timeslots Cognition Test Listed below are all timeslots timeslots for this study eligible for deletion Choose the Delete option next to all timeslots you would like to delete Only timeslots with no participants signed up are listed as those are the only timeslots eligible for deletion For other options click on the timeslot date to go directly to the timeslot Delete Timeslots Date Location Delete March 2 2003 1 25 PM 1 55 PM Jones Hall No Action Delete Timeslot September 29 2003 2 00 PM 2 30 PM Jones Hall No Action Delete Timeslot January 11 2004 1 00 PM 1 30 PM Jones Hall C No Action D
43. articipants You may not delete a study which has sign ups so the option will not be presented If you want to delete a study that has sign ups please contact the administrator The administrator can delete a study with sign ups but only if the sign ups are all without credit values this usually occurs when study participation history from a previous semester was retained but credits were zeroed out If the study has sign ups where the sign ups have non zero credit values linked to them then the administrator cannot delete the study until all those credit grants are changed to a 0 value or the participants for the sign ups are deleted The reason for this restriction is to ensure that the credit count for participants where they have earned credits is accurate which means that the studies which contributed to their credit earnings must be kept intact x File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Ld Qus O 2 A A swe Seron ae O C y E System Message Are you sure you want to delete this study Choose Yes or No at the bottom of the page Please enter information below about the study The study name may not be the same as any other studies to avoid confusion All fields are required unless otherwise marked If you are creating a simple study you only need to complete the Basic Information section More advanced options including online surveys pre requisites email notification options and 2 part studies are available in
44. aw data will identify each participant only by a unique ID code not by their name for privacy reasons If for some reason you need the participants real names ask the Administrator to run the same analysis as they can also pull the real names with their report This gives you access to all prescreen data across all participants in the system If you would like to analyze the prescreen data for just those who participated in your study select the Download Prescreen Responses after clicking on your study See Viewing Prescreen Responses in this documentation for further information 70 a rel S st IS re Eile Edit View Favorites Tools Help a Ome O A A A swe re Qe O C y A Serr Apenes Computed Section Score Multiple choice question Total Responses 4 number does not include those who declined to answer the question Average Mean 11 25 Standard Deviation 1 26 Response Summary Response Summary Response Num Respondents 1 25 2 50 1 25 Figure 26 Prescreen Response Analysis Prescreen Qualification Analysis If you would like to get an idea of how many participants meet a set of requirements for help in setting prescreen restrictions on your study use the Prescreen Qualification Analysis link from the Prescreen Responses page Using this feature you can select multiple questions only questions that qualify for study participation restrictions are lis
45. bstudy credit aspx experiment id 170 amp credit token 9 185d436e5 94b1581b0918162f6d7e8 4 Next on that same page in SurveyGizmo choose Add Field and choose the question named Sona Survey Code from the options and choose Add Field Then in the Variable Name textbox type in survey code and save your changes These features are described on SurveyGizmo s site at the following URLs e https support surveygizmo com entries 20385662 Panel Integration Panel Integration e https support surveygizmo com entries 21433006 Pushing Values into a Survey Part 1 Using Query Strings Pushing Values into a Survey Part 1 Using Query Strings 33 The SurveyGizmo Redirect URL provided by the system should be sufficient to paste directly into SurveyGizmo If you prefer to derive the URL from the Client Side Completion URL then you simply need to remove the amp c XXXX from the end of Client Side Completion URL and also the https or http from the beginning and place the remaining text in SurveyGizmo External Study Credit Granting with LimeSurvey With LimeSurvey be sure you are using version 2 0 build 130514 or newer Earlier versions contain some bugs that will prevent things from working properly Here are the basic steps which are subject to change since the product is controlled by LimeSurvey 1 In the system change the Study URL so it includes sSURVEY CODE in the URL So if the LimeSurvey U
46. cause them to exceed their maximum credit limit If it is necessary to do so please ask the administrator to do this as they are allowed to do a manual sign up even when it will violate maximum credit earning limits You also may not sign up a participant whose account is Limited if your study is not a research alternative study as those participants are ineligible for your study the administrator can still do this If the system is configured as such the participant will receive a confirmation email when you sign them up for a study In that case you are also given the option to enter comments to be included in this email that may better explain to the participant why they were signed up If you are signing up a participant for a timeslot more than one year old a confirmation will not be sent despite the system configuration This is to make it easier 61 when transitioning from an existing system as you may sign up old participants for the purposes of preventing them from signing up for the same study again in Sona You may only sign up participants for your own study To sign up a participant for a timeslot you must first find the desired study and timeslot To view your studies choose the My Studies option from the top toolbar Click on Timeslots for the desired study then select the timeslot you would like to deal with and click the Modify button At the bottom of the page you will see a Manual Sign Up option if it is enabled
47. ccept the survey code number On the part where it asks how to generate subject IDs select Query Parameter and enter in survey_code 3 In Inquisit configure the Finish Page URL and provide the Inquisit Finish Page URL from the system The Inquisit Finish Page URL should look something like this https yourschool sona systems com webstudy credit aspx experiment id 170 amp credit token 9 185d436e5 94b1581b0918162f6d7e8 These features are described on Millisecond s site at the following URL e http www millisecond com support docs v3 html howto interopsurveys htm How to Interoperate Inquisit Web Edition with Online Survey Packages The Inquisit Finish Page URL provided by the system should be sufficient to paste directly into Inquisit If you prefer to derive the URL from the Client Side Completion URL then you simply need to remove the amp c XXXX from the end of Client Side Completion URL and place the remaining text in Inquisit Client Side Completion URL Responses For help in testing listed below are the possible messages that the participant will see when they are redirected to the client side completion URL Note that if the system has a language enabled other than English then the message will be displayed in the participant s preferred language instead of English unless their language preference is English of course Status Message Explanation 35 Web study
48. cessary The maximum length of this field is 1 000 characters Private Comments This is an optional area where you may enter any comments or notes about the study which are only visible to the researchers and PI for this study and not to participants The maximum length of this field is 3 000 characters Research Alternative If set to Yes then this study is considered a research alternative study Some participants for various reasons typically for accruing too many unexcused no shows or being unable to consent to 21 participate in studies may be restricted such that they can only sign up for research alternative studies Only an administrator may change this value the default is No Participant Sign Up Deadline this feature might be disabled on your system Enter the deadline before the study is to occur that the participant may sign up in whole hours Participant Cancellation Deadline this feature might be disabled on your system Enter the deadline before the study is to occur that the participant may cancel their existing sign up in whole hours Generally the cancellation deadline should be shorter than the sign up deadline so participants can easily cancel an accidental sign up Once you have filled out the appropriate information save it and the system will be updated immediately with the information Your next step is likely to add timeslots sessions S
49. cific ordering for sections have the system randomize the order for all sections or specify the order of some sections and a random order for 42 other sections If you specify the order for only some sections you may also specify for each section whether it should be displayed before or after the random ordered sections The system does not keep track of the random order sections were displayed for each participant Mobile Devices Allowed If set to Yes the participants accessing the system using the mobile version app on a mobile device like a smartphone or tablet will be allowed to participate If the survey makes use of images or question and choice layout is very important then it may be better to set this to No as the layout may be rendered differently on devices especially smartphones with small screen sizes For technical reasons there is no easy way to preview how questions will look on a mobile device except to login as a test participant using an actual mobile device Participant response review change If set to Yes then participants may review and change their responses just before they complete the online survey They are given this opportunity after they complete the last section of the survey and before any closing text is shown At this point they can see all their responses and go back to any section to change their responses Once they complete the online survey they
50. credit successfully granted Invalid experiment_id or credit_token The credit was granted successfully The experiment_id or credit_token in the completion URL was invalid As this does not change for each participant this is most likely to occur if the completion URL was somehow incomplete or truncated Invalid survey_code The survey_code was not specified at all or was blank This may indicate the external study is not properly placing the survey_code in the completion URL Invalid survey_code some number The survey_code was provided but is not valid for this study You have already received credit for this study You have already participated in this study The participant has already participated in this study and received credit been marked as participated You are not eligible to participate in this study The participant has already signed up for this study but has been marked as a no show and has no other signups for this study which are in Awaiting Action state Web study credit grant error some number Some other generic error Please contact Technical Support for more information Server Side Completion URL Responses For help in testing listed below are the possible messages that the system will give if the Server Side Completion URL is loaded This feature is documented using the same format as the general documentation for the API interface for consistency
51. d Sample Input http yourschool sonasystems com services SonaAPI svc WebstudyCredit experiment_i d 170 amp credit_token 9185d436e5f94b1581b0918162e8 amp survey_code XXXX Sample Output The output is in XML format and an example is below of a successful request Most of the Result object will contain null empty values as it is part of an object used for other API calls There are two options to check that the credit grant was successful 1 The Result object exists 2 The Result object exists and the credit_status field has a value of G If there was an error then the Errors object will contain data instead of being null lt WebstudyCreditResponse gt lt WebstudyCreditResult gt lt a Errors i nil true gt lt a Result gt lt a anon_id_code i nil true gt lt a credit_status gt G lt a credit_status gt lt a email i nil true gt lt a first_name i nil true gt lt a last_name i nil true gt lt a phone i nil true gt lt a signup_id gt 123 lt a signup_id gt lt a student_id_num i nil true gt lt a survey_code gt XXXX lt a survey_code gt lt a user_id i nil true gt lt a Result gt lt WebstudyCreditResult gt lt WebstudyCreditResponse gt 37 Security Considerations There is one potential risk with using the client side completion URL Because the URL is typically accessed directly by the participant their browser is redirected to it then they have access to view the parame
52. d Description Introductory Text Optional maximum 10 000 characters Provide a set of text that will be displayed when a participant starts the survey You may include HTML in this area but please be sure you know what you are doing If you would like to add a carriage return paragraph break simply type in lt p gt without the quotes When you first create the online survey the system may automatically insert some basic default text in this area You may change any of this text as much as you like the system will not change it back later as long as you save your changes This is a good place to place any text for informed consent purposes You may view how this text is displayed to participants by saving it then going to Preview Introductory Text which is available from the Section List page Closing Text Optional maximum 7 000 characters Provide a set of text that will be displayed after a participant completes the survey and saves their responses This is an ideal place for debriefing information You may include HTML in this area but please be sure you know what you are doing If you would like to add a carriage return paragraph break simply type in lt p gt without the quotes You may view how this text is displayed to participants by saving it then going to Preview Closing Text which is available from the Section List page Display sections in random order You may specify a spe
53. date range this merely filters each existing part of the download so some parts may be empty if no participants whose responses would normally be included in that part completed the survey during the specified date range There are three options for downloading and viewing the data both the question key and responses 1 Download as CSV File This is the most popular option and allows you to save the data on your computer and load it in your preferred data analysis tool 2 View On Screen CSV Format This option lets you view the data on screen instead of downloading it The data is still displayed in CSV format and it s a good way to view the format of the data and ensure all the data you expect is there Often with larger datasets downloading and viewing the data with some tools like Excel may make it appear as if not all the data is there when in reality it s a limitation of the tool and not a problem with the data download The on screen option is also useful if data was collected in a language that uses Unicode character sets like Hebrew 3 View On Screen Table Format This option provides an easy way to view the data on screen to visually analyze the data but is not very useful for purposes of loading the data into an analysis tool The data is presented as one row per respondent with each of their responses in a different column The first row includes the column headings and the column heading maps to the abbreviated
54. day If you choose to create a specified number of timeslots you can choose the number of timeslots you would like to add the start time and date and the amount of time between each timeslot to allow for breaks You also may specify that timeslots that would occur outside normal business hours be shifted to the next business day and specify when business hours occur The system considers Monday Friday to be business days On the subsequent page you may change any of it to deal with special cases Timeslots that you attempt to add that either have errors or would result in exceeding the timeslot time usage limit will not be added This feature is not available for web based online studies as web based studies rarely have more than one timeslot If you would do not want to add a specific timeslot that is listed choose No in the Add This Timeslot Column Add Multiple timeslots fi 101 x File Edt View Favorites Tools Help ay Q A MD Pseach gfe Favorites Amei A 2 1 BI Links Timeslots Date Start Time Num Participants Location Add This Timeslot March 14 2003 rsopm __ 2 Smith Hall 203 a he March 10 7 2003 E 200PM B Smith Hall 203 A a March 17 2003 2 230 PM 1 Jones Hall 393 z E March i0 2003 E 3 00PM 3 TBA j March 10 2003 3 30PM 3 TBA z ie March pom 20035 korm B TBA F ha Figure 16 Creating Multiple
55. dit and note in the study description that participants may opt to receive payment instead and they should notify the researcher of this when they come to their appointment If the participant at that time chooses to receive monetary compensation the researcher should grant credit but mark the credit as 0 credits Variable Credit Granting must be enabled in System Settings by the administrator and then note in the comments for the timeslot that payment was received The monetary compensation a participant receives for a study depends on decisions they make during the study How do I indicate this You must enter one value when setting up the study so enter the minimum payment value or 0 or whatever you feel is appropriate and then note in the study description the entire range of compensation that is possible I want a participant to participate in an upcoming session but the system says it is too late for them to sign up What do I do If enabled you can perform a manual sign up See the Manual Sign Up section of this documentation If not enabled your administrator can still perform a manual sign up Where are email notifications to me sent Email notifications e g sign up notices are sent to either an address derived from your user ID or your alternate email address See the Email Address Options section of this documentation for more information How do I deal with dyads A dyad is a study which requires a pair of people
56. dual participant To email the group of participants for a particular timeslot click the Contact All Participants choice at the bottom of the Modify Timeslot page for that timeslot You will be taken to a page where you can fill out a message that the system will send to the selected participants The message is auto filled with some basic information about the study so participants are aware of which study you are referring to You may remove this information if desired You may choose to receive a copy of the email that you send Depending on how your system is configured participants may already be receiving a reminder about upcoming studies the day before they are scheduled to participate Ask your administrator for more information 67 Favorites Tools Help T Edt View Qa x A O seh e Favores Amed 2 2 l Enter a message below that will be emailed to the participant participating in this timeslot The participant s numeric ID code will be included automatically in the email Message this is a special notice about the study Cognition Test that you are scheduled to participate in on September 29 2004 4 00 PM 4 30 PM at Jones Hall The researcher is Joe Smith Send Message Figure 23 Contacting Participants In some cases you may find it useful to contact all participants for the study across all timeslots This feature may be particularly useful if you are sending debri
57. e this choice carefully e Web based studies are typically set up so there is one timeslot and that timeslot contains the maximum number of participants you would like to participate and the last date and time when they can participate often this is the end of the term It is not recommended that you set up multiple timeslots for a web based studies it confuses participants though the system will support it It is acceptable to have multiple timeslots where more than one is not active at a time For example one could have had a deadline date of the end of the previous semester and thus is currently in the past while the current timeslot has a deadline date of the end of the current semester i e in the future e Itis generally assumed that participants will participate in an online study shortly after they sign up Because of this the system will expect you to grant credit to them soon after they sign up If you are creating an online survey within the system credit will be granted automatically immediately after the participant completes the survey Throughout the sign up process participants are notified that the study is online If the study is not administered by the system online external study then participants are not given the URL for the website until they have signed up to ensure they do complete a sign up in the system for the study They can see the URL after sign up and while the timeslot they signed up for is still
58. ecify a date up to 5 years in the future Approved Select Yes if this study should show up on the list of studies which participants may sign up for Ensure you have received the necessary approvals to run the study before choosing Yes A study must be Approved and Active to show up on the list of studies which participants may sign up for If you select No the study will not be visible to participants Some systems are configured such that only the administrator can approve a study If that is the case you should contact the administrator when you are ready to make 18 the study visible to participants and a handy form is provided on the page to do so As a researcher you can always make a approved study invisible to participants by making it not approved but you may need the administrator to make it visible again if so desired In addition if you change key items about the study specifically the name or descriptions the study will automatically be made invisible to participants until the administrator reapproves it if the system is configured this way The reason for this is that many IRBs approve very specific language for study names and descriptions so the administrator needs to ensure the study is in proper compliance Email Approval Notice visible to administrators only This Yes No option will appear if the administrator is adding or updating the study and it is not already
59. ed as part of the section sum computation Section 2 I Computed Sum Score for Section 2 SUM all may be opted out I 1 3 opt outable This question is used as part of the section sum computation 10 opt out This question is used as part of the section sum computation Section 3 I Computed Sum Score for Section 3 SUM None can opt out I 1 3 na ant aut This question is used as nart nf the section sum camnutation Figure 6 Prescreen Restrictions Question Selection To set participation restrictions view do not choose edit your study and choose View Modify Restrictions You will see a list of eligible questions which you may use for your restrictions If the study already has some restrictions those will be checked and you will see how many participants currently meet the restrictions Choose the questions you would like to restrict upon and keep the existing checked restrictions checked unless you want to remove that restriction and click on the Set Restrictions button On the subsequent page you can select each value that is acceptable for each question you have chosen Once you have selected all the acceptable values save your changes and they will take effect immediately It is important to note that if you change the 29 restrictions it will not remove the study sign ups for participants who qualified under the previous set of restrictions For this reason you should probably decide on your restrictions before
60. ed the online survey but not finished it as taking up one of those places in case that person abandoned early without properly withdrawing So in this rare situation there is no choice but to credit all participants who successfully completed the survey as it is the only fair outcome for participants Note that this situation is quite rare and most likely occurs when the survey is lengthy and there are many participants vying for a limited number of available timeslots in the system Working with Timeslots Sessions Timeslots also referred to as Sessions are the available times when a participant may participate in the study If you are setting up timeslots for a web based study please read the section in this documentation on Web Based Online Studies for some special information Timeslots allow you to specify a date time location maximum number of participants and researcher for a session Timeslot Usage Restrictions If enabled on your system you may find there is a limit to the amount of time available for scheduling timeslots This usage is computed by adding up all the past timeslots where credit was granted and then adding all timeslots in the future regardless of credit status You may find that the usage goes down over time as time progresses and timeslots that were in the future which had no sign ups are now in the past and no longer count towards usage empty timeslots The timeslot usage and limit is listed whenev
61. ed timelots for your studies You may click on the study name to view more information about the study or click on the date to go to that specific timeslot If you would like to do a simple credit grant no credit value variations no special comments you may do so below by checking the appopriate checkbox next to each signup for which you would like to grant credit For other options click on the timeslot date to go directly to the timeslot Uncredited Timeslots Study Date Participant Grant Credit Cognition Test September 29 2004 4 00 PM 4 30 ID Code No Action PM 30964 Taken Grant Credit Color Test January 11 2004 2 00 PM 3 00 PM ID Code C No Action Tanie Taken Grant Credit Color Test September 29 2004 5 00 PM 6 00 ID Code C No Action PM 30964 Taken Grant Credit Memory Experiment Part September 29 2004 9 20 AM 9 40 ID Code No Action 2 AM 30964 Taken Grant Credit E Please be patient It may take a few moments to complete Figure 25 Uncredited Timeslots Analyzing Prescreen Responses If online prescreening is enabled on your system then you might also have the opportunity to analyze prescreen responses in aggregate or as raw data Choose the Prescreen Results option from the top menu bar You can then select which question you would like to analyze and whether you would like to see summary data or raw data in CSV format for the selected question The r
62. ee the Working with Timeslots section of this documentation for more information If you need to update this study see the following Updating a Study section of this documentation If you would like to add participation restrictions based on prescreen responses you can do so when you update the study see Prescreen Participation Restrictions Updating a Study You may update any of your studies at any time To do so choose My Studies from the top toolbar and you will see a list of your studies Click on the desired study and choose the Change Study Information link You will see a form remarkably similar to the one you used to add the study A few options may no longer be changeable depending on the status of the study e g if participants have already signed up for it The fields shown are all the same as when you added the study See the Adding a Study section of this documentation for an explanation of those fields The changes you make will take effect immediately after they are saved When changes are made if administrator re approval is required before a study is made visible to participants then you should contact the administrator to request re approval once you have made all your changes Changing the following fields may require a re approval study name brief abstract detailed description eligibility requirements the text field not specific restrictions like prescreen restrictions study pre requisites disqualifiers or
63. efers to our system and you will only need to focus on the Completed Surveys Link The Over Quota and Disqualified links are not applicable or implemented in this situation Note that some of the SurveyGizmo features described below may not be available to all SurveyGizmo subscription levels Here are the basic steps which are subject to change since the product is controlled by SurveyGizmo 1 In the system change the Study URL so it includes SURVEY CODE in the URL So if the SurveyGizmo URL is http www surveygizmo com s3 12345 my survey then change ittohttp www surveygizmo com s3 12345 my survey scode sSURVEY CODE 2 In SurveyGizmo configure the survey to accept the survey code number via a Hidden Field with a URL Variable named scode To do this go to Build amp Edit Select Add Action on the first page of the survey Pick the name Sona Survey Code for the action and click on Add amp Edit Action In the Value section first click on Insert Merge Code and choose URL Variable Then in the Value section type in url scode 3 In SurveyGizmo configure the URL Redirect for completed surveys On the Thank You page section go to Add Action URL Redirect in Edit Text Elements Pick some name for the action and click on Add amp Edit Action In the URL field provide the SurveyGizmo Redirect URL from the system The SurveyGizmo Redirect URL should look something like this yourschool sona systems com we
64. efing information when a study has concluded To do so go to My Studies click Study Info next to the desired study and choose the Contact Participants option You will then be able to select which group of participants to send to and a message to send Messages will be sent in groups of 300 or less depending on how your system is configured to avoid overloading email servers You cannot include attachments in the email so if you have a document you would like to include you should post it on another website and provide a link to the document in the email you send eE ay Qa x 2 Dsearcr She Favorites A Media Ol 2 B Googe z se rchweb Eh 9510 blocked Mal Options Recipients All participants Participants who were granted credit Participants who were marked as a No Show Participants who are marked as Awaiting Action Message This is a special notice regarding the study Cognition Test The researcher is John Smith Send a copy to yourself yes C No Send Message Figure 24 Contact Participants The From sender address on the email will be the administrator email address which is done to prevent the email from being blocked by junk email filters The Reply To address of the email will be that of the user who is actually sending the email so when a user chooses to reply to the email the reply will be sent to that the reply to address 68 The
65. elete Timeslot August 9 2004 3 30 PM 4 00 PM Jones Hall No Action Delete Timeslot August 15 2004 11 00 AM 11 30 AM Psych Lab Room 239 No Action Delete Timeslot September 28 2004 2 30 PM 3 00 PM Jones Hall No Action Delete Timeslot September 29 2004 3 00 PM 3 30 PM Jones Hall No Action Delete Timeslot Delete Selected Timeslots Figure 17 Delete Multiple Timeslots Manual Sign Up If enabled on your system you may manually sign up participants for your study There are a number of situations where this is desirable If the participant happens to show up for a timeslot they were not signed up for and you elect to let them participate you can sign them up on the spot for the timeslot The participant in many cases cannot sign up on their own in this situation because the sign up deadline has passed You may also sign up a participant for a study that has already occurred if necessary Also a manual sign up overrides any restrictions you have placed on the study e g pre requisites though you will be warned if you are overriding any restrictions You may not sign up a participant for the same timeslot that they are already signed up for You are allowed to sign them up for a study even if they are already signed up for a different timeslot for that same study though you will receive a warning in this case You may not sign up a participant for a study if it would
66. em as http www myschool edu mysurvey html id sSURVEY CODE then when a participant clicks on that URL the system will replace SSURVEY CODE with a unique numeric value to identify the participant For example the URL may be changed to http www myschool edu mysurvey html1 id 30039 If that is the case then on the page in the system listing sign ups for this study i e in the timeslot the code 30039 will appear next to that participant s sign up If this code is parsed and handled by the external study then the researcher can easily link up the sign ups in the system with who they have collected data from within their external study so they know who to credit Note that the crediting still will not occur automatically The purpose of this feature is to provide a way to identify participants without compromising privacy since the system can then be configured so that names are not displayed next to sign ups To help with setting this up if a participant is not viewing the URL for example the researcher is viewing the URL this special survey code text will simply be removed Note this special text must be in all capital letters and surrounded by percent signs You may confirm it was entered correctly because a sample URL will be displayed when you go to view not edit the study below the normal study website link If you provide a Survey Monkey Qualtrics or Inquisit URL in the Study URL field then the system will provide g
67. email notification will be sent to an email address based on the information the researcher has provided See the Email Address Options section of this documentation for more information on how the email address is determined Emails will contain the first 50 characters of the study name as part of the subject line to make it easy to sort the emails with an email program that supports filtering based on subject line If set to Yes researchers will also receive a notification if the system is in lenient pre requisite enforcement mode and a participant cancels a study that was a pre requisite for the current study Read the section on Pre Requisites in this table for more information about this situation Emails are sent to all researchers specified for the study unless a specific researcher is assigned to the timeslot that the email notification is being sent about See Timeslots Linked to Specific Researchers for more information Researchers at Timeslot Level If set to Yes it will be possible but not required to assign a specific researcher from the list of researchers for the study to a timeslot If set to No then it is assumed that all researchers assigned to the study are responsible for all timeslots See Timeslots Linked to a Specific Researcher for more information This option only appears if the system is configured to allow multiple researchers per study Automatic Credit Granting If set to Yes
68. enforce certain restrictions on the participant and their studies like pre requisite and disqualifier study restrictions Two Part Studies You may create a two part study in the system Often these are studies involving memory research where the participant must return a specified number of days after the first session When creating a study you may specify the day range for the second part of the study e g 7 to 10 days after the first part Participants are required to sign up for both sessions at the same time to reduce the chance they will forget to sign up for the second part Each part of a two part study may have a different credit value and duration but each part must be the same type either both parts are for credit or both parts are for compensation Online studies may not be two part studies because there is no concept of making an appointment to take an online study at a specific date and time If one part of the study is an online study simply create two separate studies one for each part and set the first study as a pre requisite for the second study With two part studies you may specify that the second part of the study must be scheduled to take place at exactly the same time as the first part on a different date or at any time on the dates that are the specified number of days after the first part You should ensure there are enough available timeslots for both parts of the study or participants will be prevented
69. er you add a timeslot if usage restrictions apply It may also be listed when you view your profile depending on how your system is configured 55 Timeslots Linked to Specific Researchers If your system is configured to allow multiple researchers per study you will also have an option to link timeslots to a specific researcher This is done primarily for organization purposes and has no effect on who can view and modify the study or any timeslots for that study This feature is useful when there are a number of researchers running a study and researchers are responsible for running specific timeslots If a timeslot has a specific researcher linked to it then only that researcher will be listed as the contact point when a participant receives any emails related to their participation in that timeslot Finally only the researcher connected to that timeslot receives related notification emails such as participant cancellation notification and reminder emails assuming such emails are enabled It is also possible to have some timeslots where a specific researcher is linked to them and others where all researchers who are assigned to the study are responsible for the timeslot It is not possible to link more than one but not all of the researchers for the study to a specific timeslot The options are to either link one researcher to the timeslot or all of them If a researcher is removed from a study then any timeslots that were
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71. ferred to have the administrator deal with such problems 27 A Pretest Qualification Analysis Microsoft Internet Explorer JO x File Edit View Favorites Tools Help ay O O HAA Perna Oe ime Googe z Search web fElautoril Fa options ge Based on the selected choices 18 participants currently qualify to participate in a study with such criteria You may choose to contact participants and invite them to participate in a study If you would like to do so please fill out the area below with your message You may choose to send the message to all qualified participants or only those qualified participants who have not already signed up or participated in the study If you prefer to send mail to only a random subset of the matching participants choose the percentage Choosing 100 will email to all matching participants The randomization percentage is approximate and is not effective when contacting a small group Participant Contact Percentage to 100 All 18 participants participant estimates are approximations Who to Mail All participants who qualify Only qualified participants who have not already signed up or participated in this study Message This is a special message regarding the study Your Study The researcher is Paul Martin t the moment there are approximately 14 open timeslots for this study Send Message emails may take a moment to send please be patient
72. foundation for how the survey code feature works which is useful in better understanding the external study credit grant feature For web based studies which are administered outside the system there is a special facility available for advanced users to track sign ups in their web based study while still preserving confidentiality This feature applies only to web based studies administered outside the system Before going further it is important to note that this is an advanced feature and may require some programming skills Sona Systems is unable to provide technical support for any programming questions The way this feature works is that if the text SURVEY CODE is placed anywhere within the Study URL field the system will automatically replace this text with a unique number for the participant This unique number will also be displayed next to their sign up within the system so it s easy to match sign ups by this number The number can be anywhere from 4 7 characters in length and will not contain leading zeroes 1234 is possible but 01234 is not 38 The external study will then need to be set up to process this code and log it appropriately Sona Systems cannot provide detailed technical support on how to program an external study as that is code that is external to our software Here is an example of how this works Let s say the study URL is http www myschool edu mysurvey html If the Study URL is entered in the syst
73. from signing up for either part Participants may cancel either part of their sign up if necessary If they cancel the first part the second part is automatically cancelled as well If they cancel only the second part and the first part has already occurred and they would like to participate in the second part later you will need to manually sign them up for the second part if you are allowed to do so or ask the administrator to handle this If you grant a no show for the first part of a two part study the second part of that participant s sign up will not be cancelled automatically but you will be reminded of the situation in case you would like to cancel the second part The cancellation is not automatic as there are some situations where automatic cancellation is not desirable Two Part Study Configuration Scenarios Listed below are some common scenarios and how to configure them in the system Scenario Configuration Second part to take place a week later at any time during that day Scheduling Range 7 and 7 Scheduling Leniency No Second part to take place three days later at exactly same the same time as part 1 Scheduling Range 3 and 3 Scheduling Leniency Yes Second part to take place one to two weeks later at any time during the day Scheduling Range 7 and 14 Scheduling Leniency No Second part to take place later on the same day as the first part Scheduling Range 0 and 0 Sched
74. g a computer that is shared by others Changing Your Password and Other Information If you would like to change your password or other information about yourself choose My Profile from the top toolbar If you would like to change your password type your new password twice for confirmation in the provided boxes If you would not like to change your password simply leave these boxes empty If you change your password please be sure to select a password you do not use on any other systems or websites This is good computing practice and especially important as in some cases your password may be sent over email A My Profile Microsoft Internet Explorer File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Gx A D serch Peros Aue H R i a Name Jesse Smith User ID kates yourschool edu Alternate Email Address If provided all emails sent to you from the system will sent to this address New Password Enter twice or leave blank if you do not want to change your password University ID 7 Phone Number 367 5309 Office Smith Hall302A Daily Reminder yes No C Should the system send a reminder of your upcoming experiments the day before _ internet Figure 3 Updating Your Profile It is recommended you provide your phone number and office location as most human subject committees require that this information be made available to research participants If
75. ganization s Internet domain to the end of your user ID to form the address so if your user ID is jsmith and your organization s Internet domain is yourschool edu then it would derive your email address as 7smith yourschool edu In situations where the system is configured so you may enter an email address on this page you will be asked to enter it twice when changing the address to ensure it is typed correctly In some cases depending on how the system is configured you will be required to provide an email address which will be listed as Email Address instead of Alternate Email Address and all emails to you will go to that address Working with Studies Most of your time on the system will be spent not surprisingly using the study related features of the system Be sure to read this section closely in its entirety as there are special features and situations you should be aware of Web Based Online Studies If enabled you may set up studies that are web based online and these studies may be set up internally in the system online survey study or outside the system online external study The options will vary depending on how your system is configured There are a few things to note about web based studies e Once you indicate to the system that the study is web based you will not be able to change it so that it is no longer web based but you can deactivate or delete the study So mak
76. gth of this field is 15 000 characters Eligibility Requirements If there are any restrictions on who may participate for instance only those who are left handed list them here Otherwise leave the field as is If you list any restrictions these will be displayed on the list of studies when participants view a list of all available studies Note the system does not enforce these restrictions but it is expected a participant will only sign up for a study in which they are qualified since they would otherwise fail to receive credit In most cases you will leave this field as is and set prescreen participation restrictions which you can do after you add the study This field may be up to 245 characters in length Pre Requisites this feature might be disabled on your system If there are studies a participant must participate in before participating in your study choose them here You may select multiple studies and on most systems you hold down the Ctrl key and click the desired studies You may specify that participants must 12 have participated in all of the studies you specify or at least one of the studies specified The system will handle enforcement of the pre requisites in a strict or lenient fashion depending on how your system is configured In strict enforcement mode the participant must have received credit for participated in the pre requisite studies In lenient enforcement
77. h contain more advanced features and can easily be linked to from the Sona Systems product by setting up your study as an online study conducted outside the system Creating or Modifying a Survey To create a survey first create an online survey study After you create it you will see the option Update Online Survey when you view the study information You may not create 2 part online survey studies It is important to note that while you are making changes to a survey it is deactivated so participants may not participate in it When you go to the Finalize Survey option after you have finished your work with the survey you will have the opportunity to save your changes and make the survey active available to participants or inactive not available to participants You should always choose the Finalize Survey option when you finish your work with the survey as the system saves all changes and computes some other important data when you finalize the survey If you would like to continue work on the survey at a later date you should still choose the Finalize Survey option to ensure your changes during the current session are properly saved most likely you would choose to keep the survey inactive in this situation 41 General Survey Information Choose the General Information option if creating a new survey this is the first page you will see to provide some basic information about the survey The fields are explained below Fiel
78. has finished the study and the reason is that the system does not know when something occurred on a website outside the system In this case researchers should routinely login and grant credit as necessary External Study Credit Granting With External Study Credit Granting a participant can receive credit as soon as they finish the online external study This is accomplished by having the external study notify the system that the participant has completed the study and thus deserves credit The notification to the system is done by accessing the Completion URL for the study A properly configured study will have up to two Completion URLs 1 Client Side Completion URL If this URL is loaded the participant will receive credit Typically this URL would be loaded by the participant clicking on a link in their browser or the participant being redirected to this link after completing the study This is the most common method used for commercial survey products like SurveyMonkey and Qualtrics 2 Server Side Completion URL This URL would typically be loaded by the external study not clicked by the end user participant and is a server to server communication between the external study and the system The results are returned in XML format and may be parsed by the external study This method would be used when you have full control over the external study like if it is programmed from a Perl script It also provides more control and security than
79. he same throughout this documentation the term researcher can be used interchangeably with principal investigator except where otherwise noted If the P I feature is enabled then all studies must have a P I specified Participant ID Codes Special Note If enabled by the administrator the system will identify participants to you only by a unique system assigned ID code and not by their name or email address for privacy reasons Participants are made aware of this and they are reminded to bring this code along with them when participating in studies since the researcher will not know them by their name Getting Started The system works best if you use any popular web browser that is less than 2 years old like Internet Explorer Firefox Chrome and Safari It will work with other web browsers and with older versions of popular web browsers however the layout may not be as clean No functionality will be lost by using an older web browser Ask your system administrator if you need help with installing or using a web browser This documentation assumes you have a basic knowledge of how to use the web On this system it is not necessary to use the Back button You can always use the toolbar on the top to navigate to anywhere on the site Logging In Your administrator will provide you with a username and password to login to the site as well as the URL web address When you go to the front page of the site the login
80. hen noted and all their responses are deleted The researcher receives an email when this occurs with some other information including how much time was spent on the survey and how many questions were answered You should then grant credit to the participant as appropriate There is a space to provide closing text for the survey which is displayed to participants after they successfully complete the survey after they have saved all their responses and cannot go back This is an ideal place to include any relevant debriefing information The online survey feature is rather complex due to the many features it contains In addition your ability to modify the survey after participants have started to take the survey is quite limited Because of this you should plan out your survey well in advance to make sure it is finalized before you make it available to participants Do not hesitate to contact the administrator if you have any questions You may find it helpful to plan out the survey on paper before entering it into the system A survey may have an unlimited number of sections and an unlimited number of questions per section though we recommend limiting surveys to fewer than 300 total questions and 15 sections to reduce participant fatigue This can be an issue since they must complete the survey all at once In addition you should make participants aware that their session may time out because of inactivity and usually this means they will
81. here is no advantage in choosing a study name that might put it at the top of an alphabetical list You should consult with your administrator if there is a naming convention to be followed when naming studies Study names must be unique and you will be prevented from adding a study if there is already another study in the system with the same name A study name may be up to 100 characters in length Brief Abstract this feature might be This is a short one or two line description 11 disabled on your system of the study This short description will be displayed to participants when they view the entire list of studies so you may want to list the most pertinent details here Studies configured for payment usually have the compensation information included here particular if the payment varies based certain outcomes This field may be optional and can be up to 255 characters in length Detailed Description this feature might be disabled on your system This can be a rather lengthy description about the study and it will show if a participants clicks on the study to get more information before they sign up You may include basic HTML in this area but please be sure you know what you are doing ask your IT department for help if you are unsure If you would like to add a catriage return paragraph break simply type in lt p gt without the quotes This field may be optional The maximum len
82. hown the closing text as the last step of the online survey study just after their responses have been saved and their sign up is recorded When they start the online survey study it is noted to participants that their responses are not fully saved until they complete the study and only then will they be properly recorded This is for both technical and IRB reasons 54 I have created my online survey and participants cannot see it I have ensured that all the prescreen restrictions course restrictions and pre requisite disqualifier restrictions are set correctly Why is it not showing up You need to set up at least one timeslot and the standard method for an online survey is to set up only one timeslot for the survey to specify the participation deadline If you still have problems contact the administrator and ask them to run Check Study Configuration on your study and that will explain why a study is or is not showing up My online survey had 5 spaces in a timeslot and somehow 6 people signed up and received credit How did this happen This is a rare situation that occurs usually with online surveys that take a long time to complete What happens is that all 6 people or at least the last 2 people started the online survey at around the same time and before any of them could finish it The system checks at the point of sign up to see if there are open spaces for the online survey but does not consider someone who has start
83. https yourschool qualtrics com SE SID SV_b9ZD41hMZa qE then change it to https yourschool qualtrics com SE SID SV_b9ZD41hMZa qE amp id SURVEY CODE 2 In Qualtrics configure the survey to accept the survey code number as an embedded data field named id Remember to use lower case as this is case sensitive 3 In Qualtrics configure the Survey Flow option to Redirect to a URL at the end of the survey and provide the Qualtrics Redirect to a URL value from the system The Qualtrics Redirect to a URL should look something like this https yourschool sona systems com webstudy credit aspx experiment id 170 amp credit token 9 185d436e5 94b1581b0918162f6d7e8 amp survey code e Field id These features are described on Qualtrics site at the following URL e http www qualtrics com university researchsuite distributing panels panel company integration Panel Company Integration 32 The Qualtrics Redirect to a URL provided by the system should be sufficient to paste directly into Qualtrics If you prefer to derive the URL from the Client Side Completion URL then you simply need to change the amp c XXXxX at the end of Client Side Completion URL to e Field id External Study Credit Granting with SurveyGizmo With SurveyGizmo it is best to follow the URLs listed below that describe the process in detail on the SurveyGizmo website In those documents panel company r
84. ies because the sign up for the study is integrated with the administration of the survey The manual sign up feature will not appear for a researcher if the study requires approval by the administrator and it has not yet been approved This is to ensure sign ups cannot occur for a study that has not yet been approved since research should not take place prior to approval 62 Manual Cancellation If enabled on your system you may have the opportunity to cancel a participant s sign up You may only cancel sign ups that are in a No Action Taken state To cancel a sign up find the desired timeslot and participant and click Cancel next to their name The participant will be sent an email about the cancellation and who performed it along with a confirmation code and their sign up will be immediately cancelled The administrator may also receive a copy of this cancellation email depending on how the system is configured You may cancel all participants for the same timeslot at one time when applicable The option will appear below the list of signups in cases where there are two or more participants signed up for the timeslot who are eligible for cancellation No Action Taken state File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Ox O GO Dawe Keres Que 2 S B System Message Are you sure you want to cancel this signup Study Name Cognition Test Date September 29 2004 4 00 PM 4 30 PM Location Jones Hall Wo
85. ing from 0 5 to 2 credit s The standard credit value for this study is 1 credit Sign Ups 1 Participant 2 available spaces No Show No Show Name Penalty No Assessed Penalty ta a pee aa O C c G Cancel Contact MH 1 credit s Update Sign Ups 4 No Action Taken Comments Figure 20 Modifying a Timeslot Participant List Viewing Prescreen Responses If online prescreens are enabled on your system and you are also allowed to view an individual participant s prescreen responses then you will see a Prescreen link next to each participant s name or ID code when you view the information for a timeslot Click on that link to view the participant s prescreen responses If you would like to download the prescreen data for all participants in your study choose the Download Prescreen Responses option after clicking on your study That will allow you to download all the data at once in CSV comma separated format for further analysis The download will not contain data for participants marked as a no show If you would like to analyze responses in aggregate across all participants in the system see Analyzing Prescreen Responses in this documentation 64 File Edit View Favorites Tools Help a Om gt A L seh Pg rvontes Auei O 2 i A Pretest Responses ID Code 28804 Pretest Options e Sections were displayed in the same order as below e Pretest is currently available
86. ion about how far along the participant was when they chose to withdraw both in time and number of questions This information is provided as some schools have a policy of granting credit for early withdrawals based on time spent or percentage completion Participants also have the option of including a message that will be sent to the researcher to explain their withdrawal but such a message is not mandatory The researcher should then grant credit to the participant if necessary by going to the timeslot and finding that sign up Participants are informed that if they are unsure which of the withdrawal options to choose that they should choose the withdraw option that retains their ability to receive credit 50 The withdrawal option cannot be removed as it is there to ensure compliance with research ethics guidelines Viewing Survey Data Usage and Deleting Survey Data The system has a limited amount of storage space and you are expected to download the survey data you have collected on a routine basis and then delete it from the system By going to View Survey Data Usage you can see how much database space is being used You can then download the survey data a link is provided and delete it from the system When you delete the data from the system all survey data collected within the last 5 minutes will not be deleted as a safety feature This is to ensure you have had adequate time to download the survey data before deleting
87. ion from the list or type in your ovm September 2005 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1253 45678910 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 October 2005 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2345678 9 1011 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 November 2005 Figure 15 Adding a Timeslot The following table lists the information you may enter about a timeslot along with an explanation All fields are required Field Explanation Date The date for the timeslot Start Time The time for the timeslot A sample time will be provided If you want to change the time please use the same format as the time you see presented Note in particular how a m and p m are handled if such a format is enabled on your system End Time The time when the timeslot will end This is computed automatically based on the duration you entered when you set up the study of Participants The number of participants for this timeslot This limit is not visible to participants They will only see whether the timeslot is full or not The maximum number is 999 Location The physical location where the study will take place for this timeslot It will be automatically filled with the location of the previous timeslot when available to ease in data entry Depending on how your system is 57 configured you may see a list of pre configured locatio
88. irst login to the system and every 6 months thereafter you may be required to acknowledge your organization s policy on these matters and this acknowledgement will be logged Ask your subject pool administrator if you have any questions 74
89. it If you choose to delete the survey data in this manner the record of participant sign ups will be retained so you can ensure they do not complete the same online survey again Deleting a Single Participant s Survey Responses On rare occasions you may want to delete a participant s survey responses usually so they can participate again To do this cancel their sign up and that will delete their responses Note this will also remove any credit they earned See Manual Cancellation for more information Analyzing Survey Responses You may analyze a specific survey question on screen by selecting the survey and choosing the Analyze Survey Responses option From there you may choose a specific question and view or download the response data This will include data from participants who are still in the process of completing the survey but have not yet completed it The Download Survey Responses option which provides the entire set of survey responses for all participants includes only data from participants who have completed the survey to ensure easier data analysis In rare cases you may notice that a few responses for certain questions appear or disappear from the Analyze Survey Responses while never showing up in Download Survey Responses What happens in this situation is that a participant started an online survey but never fully completed it or withdrew from it they probably just closed their web browser The system goes
90. ive studies These will not show up on the list of available studies to participants but participants can access information about these individual studies on links from the page with their progress if they participated in the study or if another study has the Inactive study listed as a pre requisite or disqualifier Online External Studies Online external studies are online studies which are not hosted within the system but instead reside on some other website This is different from online survey studies detailed later in this documentation where an online survey is set up directly in the system and no other website is involved For online external studies you may want to develop some method of linking the participant s sign up in the system to your online study so you know who to grant credit to One way to do this is to ask the participant s name or some other identifying information that will make it easy to locate their sign up within the system and grant them credit once they have completed your online study Another method of tracking which offers more anonymity is to use the Survey Code feature described later in this section The most automated approach is to use the External Study Credit Granting feature where the participant receives credit automatically as soon as they finish the study 29 Note that if External Study Credit Granting is not used the system will not automatically grant credit once the participant
91. k something like this if displayed http yourschool sona systems com services SonaAPI svc WebstudyCredit experiment id 170 amp credi t_token 9185d436e5 f94b1581b0918162f6d7e8 amp survey code XXXX In the example the XXXX at the end is to show where the survey code number should be placed in place of XX XX by the external study website For SurveyMonkey studies the client side completion URL will be slightly different from the example above in the names of parameters due to a limitation in how the SurveyMonkey product handles parameter names The next step is you ll need to configure the online external study to receive the survey code number from the system at the start of the study and also to load one of the completion URLs at the end of the study while replacing XXXX with the survey code number and pass that to the system in the completion URL Because this involves configuring the external study which is not part of the system then how this is accomplished depends on the external study Usually it involves setting up the survey code number as some type of variable that is passed in via the URL and then configuring a redirect URL at the end of the study to be loaded with this variable in the URL As this is a complicated feature the best method to test it is to actually login to the system as a fake participant The entire credit granting process is not possible to test as a researcher since researchers cannot sign up for
92. l participant you can do so by creating a test participant account Set the online survey study so it has an invitation code so no other participants can sign up since they will not know this invitation code Then sign up with your test participant account and take the survey You can remove the invitation code later if necessary Participant Withdrawal from a Survey At any time while participating in the survey participants have the option to withdraw from the survey A Withdraw button will appear in the top right corner of each page When a participant withdraws they have the option to withdraw without the option to receive credit or with the option to receive credit If they choose to withdraw without the option to receive credit all their survey responses as well as the record of their sign up will be deleted Participants are told that this option should be used if they want to later participate in the survey In other words it would likely be used when a participant starts a survey but realizes they won t be able to complete it at the moment but would like the opportunity to participate later No notification to researchers is sent in this scenario If they choose to withdraw with the option to receive credit then all their survey responses will be deleted but a record of their sign up will be kept and it will be in awaiting action state The researcher will receive an email about the withdrawal as well as some basic informat
93. l to do a search and replace to change the response in your downloaded data into a numeric format Your IT department can provide assistance with such tools If your survey has a lot of questions and thus columns in the output file you may have trouble loading the data with some spreadsheet programs which are not equipped to handle such large datasets Your best option is to use a full featured statistical analysis package like SPSS or SAS Those packages handle large CSV format data imports with ease Your IT department can help you to select the best tools In particular Excel has trouble dealing with datasets with more than 250 questions columns Frequently Asked Questions about Online Surveys Is it possible to have multiple versions of an online survey with participants being randomly assigned to one version of the survey at the start of the survey The best way to do this is to create multiple online surveys you can easily copy questions between them with the Copy Section Feature to save time and use a prescreen participation restriction that is unrelated to your research For example if there is a prescreen question asking for the last digit of the participant s university ID number assuming this is randomly distributed then you can use that to easily break up the pool into random tenths by using that as a prescreen participation restriction for each version of the study Is there a way to post images graphics or videos in
94. lly about setting this value because you are very limited in your ability to change it after participants have started to take the survey 45 Computed section sums or means are often useful when all the questions are using a unidimensional scale 1 5 for example but a participant s average score response to the section is more useful to account for their outlier responses Depending on if you are editing or adding a section after you save your changes you will be taken to a page to add a new question or to the section list E Survey Section List Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 Ele Edit View Favorites Tools Help GQ O x 2 AA A seah y Favorites A veda O Z es Add New Section If you would like to add a new section choose the type of section below to add and also choose if questions in the section should be displayed in random order Additionally if you choose to have a sum or average score computed for the section for each student then every question that is to be part of the score for that section may only have numeric responses Note that once any student has started the survey you cannot change the score computation type between average and sum or from none to average or sum nor can you add new questions to the sections that allow numeric responses You may only turn off the computed score entirely Plan your survey wisely before making it available to students You may also provide introductory text for
95. mode the participant must only be scheduled to participate in the pre requisite studies it is assumed they will go on to complete the pre requisite studies You can ask your administrator how this is configured if it is of concern If your system is in lenient enforcement mode and a participant cancels a necessary pre requisite for you study they are warned of this situation and you have configured your study so that the researcher will receive notifications of cancellations or sign ups then the researcher will receive notification of the pre requisite problem and can contact the participant if necessary If there is a long list of studies for this setting an Enlarge List button will appear You can click this to make the list of studies larger and thus easier to click on Depending on how your system is configured Pre Requisite Disqualifier Display setting participants may or may not see which studies you have specified as pre requisites when they go to view your study Disqualifiers this feature might be disabled on your system If there are any studies a participant must not have participated in please select them here You may select multiple studies The system will handle enforcements of the restriction during the sign up process If a study has some other study listed as a disqualifier and a participant signs up for this study then they will be prevented from 13 signing up for the dis
96. ndom sections the ordered section then 2 random sections etc The random sections are treated as an entire block of sections and other sections cannot be placed at specific places within that block 44 There is also a Preview Section option so you may preview the survey as participants will see it iix Bile Edit Wew Favorites Tools Help ay Q x A search gfe Favores Aui H 62 2 BI System Message Section information updated Below is a list of sections and a short summary of questions in each section You may edit each section the questions within it or delete a section You may change the ordering of the sections by changing the number next to each section Use each number only once and enter only whole e g 1 2 3 numbers in the field If you are finished working with this pretest please go to the Final Review to finalize the test and any changes you made to it Section Order Section Information 1 Section 1 Settings Sum score for each participant is computed Intro Text We would like to ask some basic informatoin about Section Questions 1 How many times a week do you visit the library Update Question Delete Question 2 Do you know anyone with a history of alcoholism in Update Question Delete Question 2 questions in this section Add Question Edit Section Information Delete Section 2 Section 2 Settings Sum score for each participant is computed Intro Text
97. nformation should not be revealed to the public It may turn out that your studies are not of such a nature but even more benign situations like a study that requires that participants be regular contact lens wearers can be construed as confidential information Organizations typically err on the side of caution given the criminal and civil penalties for violation of these types of regulations Data Handling and Security Guidelines In your role you have access to your studies and you can see who has signed up for those studies You may also have access to prescreen responses Because of these privileges you should follow these simple guidelines e Secure Your Account Use a password that is difficult to guess The most secure passwords contain a combination of letters and numbers do not spell a real word 13 and are at least 8 characters long Your university IT department can provide you with assistance on choosing a secure password e Secure Your Work Area If you are logged into the system and you leave your computer you should logout of the system or use a password lock on your computer Ask your network administrator for help with setting up a password lock e Handle Paper Documents Carefully Any printouts from the system should be kept reasonably secure Store them in desk drawer out of the public view Documents you decide to discard should be shredded if possible Human Subjects Privacy Policy Acknowledgment Upon your f
98. ns You may choose any of those locations and click on View Schedule to see the schedule for a location The system will automatically prevent you from adding a timeslot using a location that is already in use at the time you try to schedule the timeslot If you do not see the location in the list that you plan to use you can simply type in the location in the text field below it The location field does not apply for web based studies Researcher The researcher assigned to this specific timeslot The list will contain a list of all researchers for the study Choose ALL if all researchers for the study should be assigned to this timeslot See Timeslots Linked to Specific Researchers for more information To ease data entry the system will automatically fill in the date time and location based on the ending time of the last timeslot for this study If applicable your current timeslot usage will be listed and you will be prevented from adding a timeslot that would exceed your timeslot usage time limit A convenient calendar is provided next to the form and you can click on any date and that date will be transferred to the form If you add a timeslot such that there is another timeslot for any study that occurs in the same time at the same location you will receive a warning but the addition will be allowed unless the location was chosen from the pulldown list of locations in which case the addition will be blocked
99. nt to grant credits to the participant but you also want to prevent them from participating in the study again If a participant is granted 0 credits and the study is set to prevent duplicate sign ups then the participant will not be able to sign up for that study again If desired enter any comments about the session in the Comments section generally this is used to indicate the reason for denying credit Participants will see anything you enter in the Comments section for their sign up and these comments will be included in the email sent to participants when a credit grant revocation occurs if notification emails are enabled on your system Click on the Update Sign Ups button at the bottom of the list of sign ups to save your changes Credit will be granted or a penalty assessed as necessary The participant s will be emailed about this if the system is configured in such a manner It is not recommended to leave any sign up for a timeslot that has occurred in the No Action Taken stage This is a credit limbo and the system will warn you upon your next login about the offending timeslot that has not been dealt with properly Note that if Manual Cancellation is enabled and you would like to cancel a participant s sign up the sign up must be in No Action Taken state Depending on how your system is configured the system may automatically grant credit to participants for timeslots that are more than an administrator specified
100. o they must answer the question The default when adding a new question not copying an existing question or section is set to Yes for ethical compliance Are all choices numeric If set to Yes all choices must be numeric whole numbers e g 1 2 10 This only applies to multiple choice questions Sections with a computed section sum or average may not contain non numeric multiple choice select many questions Display numeric value If set to No the numeric value of the choice is not displayed to participants This only applies to numeric multiple choice questions where each choice includes both a numeric value and associated text e g 5 Strongly Agree This is useful when running a reverse scale 47 If the question is a multiple choice question you must also fill out the choices section that is part of the same form A minimum of 1 choice must be provided for the question Each choice may be up to 255 characters in length If the question is specified as numeric you must provide a numeric choice and that choice must be a whole number e g 5 1 0 349 If you would like to provide descriptive text to accompany each numeric choice you may do so by typing in the numeric choice and leaving one blank space after it then typing in the descriptive text for example 5 Strongly Agree If you provide descriptive text along with the numeric choice then you have the option of hiding the numeric
101. omputed Sum Score for Section Choices F 10 M i1 M 12 F13 We would like to ask some basic informatoin about you Do you know anyone with a history of alcoholism in their family Choices M 10 Figure 7 Prescreen Response Restrictions Inviting Qualified Participants to a Study While viewing the list of prescreen restrictions currently set for a study and the number of participants who meet those restrictions you may see the option to Invite Qualified Participants Using this option you may craft an email to be sent to all qualified participants You may choose to exclude those who have already signed up for or participated in any studies you specify and this disqualifier list will be pre populated based on any disqualifiers already set for the study The system will automatically exclude all participants who have participated or are signed up for the current study no shows are not excluded though since they may sign up again If the study is not a research alternative study the system will also automatically exclude participants with Limited accounts as they are ineligible to participate in studies not marked as a research alternative study The system will pre fill the email text with useful information like the name of the study and how many timeslots are currently open You cannot include attachments in the email 26 so if you have a document you would like to include you should post it on some other website and
102. or online studies this should be an estimate of how long participants can expect the study to take so that they can plan accordingly Timeslot Usage Limit Depending on how your system is configured you may see an item that specifies the maximum number of study 14 session hours available to this study This value is set by the administrator and only the administrator can adjust it To determine the current session usage for a study go to the Add A Timeslot page for the study and the usage will be listed there Preparation Enter any advanced preparation a participant must do here e g do not eat 2 hours before session If there are no preparation requirements leave this field as is Invitation Code this feature might be disabled on your system If you would like to have a special sign up password for this study enter it here This is known as an invitation code and applies just for this study Participants must know the invitation code to sign up for this study This is often used in cases where the researcher wants to personally select participants so the researcher only provides the invitation code to the desired participants Invitation codes are not case sensitive If you do not need an invitation code leave this field blank Is this a web based study this feature might be disabled on your system If this is a web based online study choose the type of online stud
103. pply the changes please be patient as it may take a few moments to apply all the changes Apply Changes Make ACTIVE Apply Changes Make INACTIVE If you are not ready to apply the changes and would like to change the survey now you may Edit General Information about the survey or Edit Questions and Sections Be sure to apply the changes when you are done or there may be problems with the survey Figure 14 Saving Survey Changes Viewing a Survey as a Participant If you would like to see how the survey will be displayed to participants that can easily be done while setting up the survey Next to each section in the section list there will 49 be a Preview Section link so you can view the section exactly as participants would see it You may also view how the introductory and closing text will appear to participants by choosing the Preview Introductory Text and Preview Closing Text options which appear on the Section List page Participants will see a basic progress display on the top right corner of each page listing the section they are on ordinal counting and how many sections total are in the survey When using Preview Section you will see this progress display as well except the current section number will appear as X in preview mode since it is not an actual participant taking the survey and randomization of section order may be involved If you find it necessary to go through the entire process as a rea
104. purposes As a researcher you can set up your studies in the system schedule the sessions timeslots when participants may participate and grant or revoke credit after the session All of this is handled through a simple web based interface that you can access at any time from any popular web browser The system is highly configurable by the administrator to enforce the rules for the research participant pool exactly as your organization desires It should be noted that the documentation herein may refer to features that are not enabled on your system Contact your local administrator whose contact information appears at the bottom of every page on the system for more information System Basics In the system you create studies Each study may have a number of timeslots which are the times when you plan to run the study Participants sign up for the timeslots by viewing a list of studies and available timeslots You grant or revoke credit to participants after the session occurs Principal Investigator Special Note This documentation applies to both researchers and principal investigators P I s when P I support is enabled by the administrator A P I usually the supervising faculty member can perform all the same functions on a study as a researcher This allows a P I to operate in an oversight role and monitor the progress of their studies and step in on behalf of the researcher when necessary Because the privileges are t
105. qualifier study If there is a long list of studies for this setting an Enlarge List button will appear You can click this to make the list of studies larger and thus easier to click on Depending on how your system is configured Pre Requisite Disqualifier Display setting participants may or may not see which studies you have specified as disqualifiers when they go to view your study Course Restrictions If you would only like participants enrolled in certain courses to participate in your study select the eligible courses here Participants who are not in at least one of the courses you selected will not see the study when they go to view the list of available studies You may choose No Restrictions if you would like to make the study available to participants in all courses If there is a long list of courses for this setting an Enlarge List button will appear You can click this to make the list of courses larger and thus easier to click on There is a limit to how many courses can be listed as course restrictions for a study and the limit is somewhere between 60 and 80 courses The limit is variable depending on a few factors and the system will simply not save the course restrictions for any courses which would take it over the limit Duration The amount of time in minutes that each study session will take If you are setting up a 2 part study then this setting applies to the first part of the study F
106. re is also the option to restrict the emails so they only go to participants who signed up for timeslots in a specified date range The date range is based on the date of the timeslot not when the participant signed up for completed or received credit for the study Finally there is an option to specify a delay in sending the email based on the number of hours from when the emailing option is used This is useful if you want to target a certain time of day e g during the evenings when the email will be sent The emails are generated at the time you use the emailing facility but are stored on the email server queue until the specified sending time They cannot be removed from the queue once this emailing facility is used In most cases summary information about the email you sent and in particular to how many recipients it was sent to will be logged and made available to the administrator This is done to ensure there is no abuse of the email facility in the system in compliance with generally accepted Internet practices for sending emails Viewing Uncredited Timeslots When you login to the system you will receive a warning if you have any timeslots that are more than 2 days old and haven t been dealt with You may view a list of all timeslots that have not been dealt with by choosing the View Uncredited Timeslots option from the My Studies page The default view will show in person studies with timeslots in the past as well as all
107. s well as the administrator can change the researcher Depending on how your system is configured you may be able to specify multiple researchers for a study If you specify multiple researchers each researcher has full control over the study 17 The pulldown box lists only users who are researchers Principal Investigator this feature might be disabled on your system Select the Principal Investigator for this study The person you select will have full access to the study If you see this option then you must select a P I The pulldown box lists only users who are principal investigators IRB Approval Code Enter the IRB approval code here This field is displayed to the administrator to help them keep track of studies This field may be required depending on how your system is configured IRB Approval Expiration Date The date when IRB approval expires This field may not appear if your system is not configured for it If it does appear you must provide a valid expiration date The system will prevent you from adding new timeslots to take place after this date and your study will become inactive not approved and thus not visible to participants after this date You may not make a study active if the IRB approval has expired Only the administrator can change the IRB approval expiration date once it has been entered which is why it defaults to blank to force you to choose a date You may sp
108. s timeslot Batch Credit Grant What data will you be User IDs example jsmith providing C anonymous ID Codes example 23493 Credit Comments optional Mass Testing Session Participant List jsmith jdoe bsmith Type in a list of User IDs or ID numbers separated by spaces Example jsmith jdoe bsmith Go to Confirmation Page Figure 22 Batch Credit Grant The batch credit grant feature will not appear for a researcher if the study requires approval by the administrator and it has not yet been approved This is to ensure sign ups cannot occur for a study that has not yet been approved You may provide a list of up to 50 participants or as many participants as there are available spaces for the timeslot whichever is less Any participants listed past that limit will be ignored but you can run the batch credit again with additional participants If you are signing up a participant for a timeslot more than one year old a sign up confirmation will not be sent despite the system configuration This is to make it easier when transitioning from an existing system as you may sign up past participants for the purposes of preventing them from signing up for the same study again in the system Emailing Participants If you wish to contact participants in a particular timeslot for any reason you may click on the Contact link that will appear next to each participant s name or ID code to contact an indivi
109. sage limits are enabled the system will provide an estimate of how many timeslots can be added Note that if the study is a two part study it will estimate based on allocating all the limit to the first part or the second part both estimates are provided however in practice it s more likely a researcher will want to add timeslots to both parts of the study so this should be taken into account when viewing these estimates especially if the first part and second part of a study have a different duration Bulk Mail Summary The system tracks whenever any type of bulk email is sent by a user related to the study This includes inviting participants based on the study s prescreen participation restriction analysis or contacting those who have already signed up for the study This information is kept for 6 months and it is tracked to ensure that all users follow generally accepted Internet practices for responsible use of email The administrator also has access to this information Prescreen Participation Restrictions If enabled on your system the system might contain an online prescreen that participants may or must depending on your system configuration complete You may place participation restrictions on your study based on prescreen responses Participants are unaware that such restrictions are placed on the study These restrictions are never listed to them If they do not qualify to participate in a study because they do not meet
110. se the change was unintended You may not update the size of the timeslot number of participants to a value lower than the current number of participants signed up for the timeslot Generally researchers only update timeslots with sign ups to update the location if it was not available when the timeslot was originally created If the study or researcher is subject to timeslot time usage restrictions the system will enforce them and prevent you from increasing the number of participants in a timeslot if that would result in exceeding the timeslot usage limit Timeslot Change Tracking The system automatically tracks certain changes that occur with a timeslot including any time key information about the timeslot date time etc is changed as well as any time a manual sign up or cancellation is performed i e not a sign up or cancellation done by the participant This information is tracked for the last 3 months of changes for each timeslot To view this information choose the View Timeslot Modification Log when viewing a timeslot and you will see this information Deleting Multiple Timeslots If you would like to delete multiple timeslots at once you may do that as well Such a feature is only available for timeslots which have no participants signed up To do so select the desired experiment and choose Timeslots At the bottom of the Timeslots page you will see a Delete Multiple Timeslots option The option may not appear in cert
111. studies To ensure other real participants do not sign up for the study while you are testing it add an Invitation Code to the study you can remove it later The configuration directions for some popular survey products are below based on information from those vendors External Study Credit Granting with SurveyMonkey With SurveyMonkey note that some of the features used within SurveyMonkey may vary depending on your subscription level with SurveyMonkey Here are the basic steps which are subject to change since the product is controlled by SurveyMonkey 1 In the system change the Study URL so it includes SURVEY CODE in the URL So if the SurveyMonkey URL is http www surveymonkey com s H2Y9H27 then change it to http www surveymonkey com s H2Y9H27 c SURVEY_ CODE 2 In SurveyMonkey configure the survey to accept the survey code number as a collector 3 In SurveyMonkey configure the Survey Completion option to redirect to your own webpage and provide the SurveyMonkey Completion URL from the system By doing this SurveyMonkey will put in the survey_code number passed to the collector If Steps 1 and 2 were completed correctly then SurveyMonkey will add in the parameter automatically when it redirects the user So if the 31 SurveyMonkey Completion URL will look something like this https yourschool sona systems com webstudy credit aspx experiment id 170 amp credit token 9 185d436e5f94b1581b
112. studies and the reason has to do with what two part studies are intended for They are used when the researcher needs to ensure a fairly strict separation between each part For example in memory research a researcher may want to set up the two parts exactly 14 days apart The issue with online studies is they are not scheduled to take place at a certain date and time so it s impossible to enforce any kind of strict separation between each part If the goal is just a follow up to a study then the time separation probably isn t very important In that case the best solution is to set up two studies and set the first study as a pre requisite for participation in the second study Is there a method to upload a survey into the system from Word Excel etc For online survey studies there is no method to upload the data We considered this but there is no standard format for survey data representation so there was no format we could really support for uploading In the online survey feature there is the ability to copy questions and sections which may make it easier to set up the survey if many questions have the same sets of choices for example When a participant is taking an online survey study when is their sign up actually recorded in the system The system will not record completion or even sign up of an online survey study until it is actually completed or if the participant chooses to withdraw early Participants are s
113. survey you will be taken to the list of sections for the survey Here you can change the order that sections will be displayed if you have not enabled full random section ordering for the survey and see a quick review of each question From here you can add a question to any section and edit any question To add a new section choose the Add a New Section choice at the bottom of the page If you have enabled partial random section ordering then you can specify a section order for the sections you would like to be displayed in a specified order For the sections you would like to be displayed in random order leave the Section Order area blank When you specify a section order use each number once and use the numbers 1 98 if you would like the section to be displayed before the random ordered sections and the numbers 100 199 if you would like the section to be displayed after the random ordered sections Be sure to use each number only once or leave the number blank to make the section part of the random ordered section Sometimes it is useful to use partial random ordering if you want to ask basic e g demographic information in the first few sections while asking more analytical questions in the random ordered sections Likewise you may want to ask about the previous random ordered sections after they are completed It is not possible to intersperse ordered sections within the set of random sections like having 2 ordered sections then 3 ra
114. t be removed from the queue once this emailing facility is used In some cases the administrator may have imposed a limit on how many participants may be emailed This is often done to prevent abuse of the system such as cases where researchers invite too large a number of participants and this is not in accordance with generally accepted Internet principles for sending email If there is such a limit the system will look at the number of participants the researcher plans to email and if that number is greater than the limit it will block the sending entirely as opposed to sending only enough emails up to the limit To get around this limitation the researcher can further restrict who they plan to send to perhaps choosing a smaller random percentage of users or more closely defined prescreen participation restrictions or ask the administrator to send the email for them The administrator is not subject to such limitations Regardless any use of this bulk email facility will be logged and that information will be kept for approximately 6 months The administrator can easily pull up a report of how many emails a specific researcher has sent so is good to be careful about not abusing this feature In addition Sona Systems reserves the right to temporarily remove the right to login from a researcher if there are verifiable reports of abuse of this feature Typically before doing so the administrator will be notified by Sona Systems as it is pre
115. t of a set of studies where only the final study is credit earning Please see the Studies for Pay section of this documentation for more information on how to fill out this field in the case of for pay studies If the study has a credit value the credit value specified must be evenly divisible by the credit increment specified For example if the increment is 0 5 then the study can have credit values like 1 and 1 5 but not 0 75 If you are setting up a 2 part study this is the value for the first part of the study After a study has sign ups you may not change the credit value of the study However the administrator can still change the credit value of a study with pending sign ups If this is done be sure to notify participants with pending sign ups of the change as the system will not notify them automatically A study may not be changed between a study for credit and for payment after it has been created Is this a 2 part study Select Yes or No if this is a 2 part study You can only decide this when creating a study not when editing it and this setting may not be changed after the study is 16 created See Two Part Studies for more information Credits Pay Part 2 Enter the number of credits or compensation for part 2 of the study if this is a two part study the value is ignored otherwise A value of 0 is acceptable and may be desired in cases where the study is part of a
116. ted and then the desired responses for those questions and you will see how many participants meet that criteria If enabled you may also contact participants and invite them to participate in any of your studies See the Invite Qualified Participants to a Study section in this documentation for more information on how this works The functionality is the same as the functionality described in that section though a few options may be unavailable when not inviting directly from a study because those options do not apply Be sure to include information about how to sign up for the study in your communication to them as a direct link to the study is not provided in the email Frequently Asked Questions FAQ Why do I have to acknowledge the Human Subjects Policy Certain regulations and research guidelines either require or recommend it You only need to do it once every 6 months so it should not be too intrusive You will not be asked to acknowledge the policy if this feature is disabled by your administrator What is the best way to setup a study where participants receive monetary compensation You may set it up as a pay study only indication a compensation amount or a credit study if it is for both pay and credits See the Studies for Pay section of this documentation for more information 71 I want to set up a study so that participants can choose to receive credit or payment How do I set this up Set it up as a study for cre
117. ters in the URL The completion URL contains a key specific to your study as well as an ID the survey code number to indicate which participant should be granted credit The risk is that a participant could use this URL and start trying other ID survey code numbers to grant other participants credit In order for this scheme to work all of the following must be true e They must be able to guess an ID number used by another participant The ID numbers are not sequential e The other participant must be signed up for this study e The other participant must not already have received credit for this study i e they are in Awaiting Action state It s fairly unlikely that all three situations will occur and it s also a lot of work for a participant to guess all possible ID numbers though this can be automated If this is a concern the best option is to use the server side completion URL since that is a communication from server to server and so participants will not see the communication The drawback is that most commercial survey products do not support use of the server side completion URL so additional programming would be required Using the SURVEY CODE Feature Note If you are just interested in external study credit granting then this section may not be applicable This section describes how to use the survey code feature to link a sign up in the system to data collected in the external study However it also describes the
118. the prescreen participation restrictions then the study will simply not be listed to them This is important to note participants never know why a study was or was not listed to them because they are unaware of the prescreen restrictions 24 You may restrict a study on any question or questions on the prescreen that allowed for a multiple choice answer where only one choice could be selected You may also restrict a study based on a computed section sum or average score for a participant if the prescreen was set up in such a manner You may restrict to one choice or many choices for any question If you restrict on multiple questions it is the same as a logical AND For example if you setup the prescreen restrictions so that participants must have answered Yes to a Do you wear glasses question and Blue or Grey to What color are your eyes then they must meet both requirements to participate In other words only participants who wear glasses and have either blue or grey eyes are eligible There is no support for a logical OR restriction across multiple questions The restrictions are inclusive which means that if you select a choice as a restriction then participants must have answered at least one of the choices selected for each question that is part of the restriction in order to see and participate in the study as opposed to exclusive where checking the choice as a restriction would exclude them
119. through all orphaned responses in this situation and clears them out once they are more than 2 days old More likely you will want to analyze the survey data across all questions In this case you should choose the Download Survey Responses option To successfully analyze the data you will need to download 2 sets of data The first is the question key which lists a unique numeric identifier for each question along with the question text and abbreviated question name It also includes the section number each question was in Note the section number listed is merely a unique identifier for each 51 section and has no correspondence to the order in which sections were presented Also note that section mean and sum values if calculated will normally be at the end of the list of questions This data is in CSV format and is available by clicking the Download Question Key link on the Download Survey Responses Page After you download the question key you can download the survey data The system may require that you download the data in separate parts if there is too much data to be downloaded as one file The system will adjust the size of each part based on how many questions are in the survey A survey with a large number of questions will be broken into more parts with fewer rows of data per part You may also choose to limit the download based on date range which is based on when the participant completed the survey If you choose a
120. timeslots that are more than a specified number of hours old and still in 20 the Awaiting Action state will be changed to a credit grant The check for timeslots in this situation is made only once per day If an automatic credit grant is done you may still change it later if necessary For online external web studies the credit grant will take place the specified number of hours after the timeslot participation deadline has occurred so this feature is generally not useful in this situation This option will not appear for online survey studies within the system because credit granting generally occurs automatically immediately after the participant completes the survey Can a participant sign up for this study more than once this feature might be disabled on your system If you would like to allow participant to sign up and receive credit for your study more than once at different times choose Yes Otherwise choose No If No is chosen participants may only sign up for the study more than once if they previously failed to show up for the study a no show Shared Comments This is an optional area where you may enter any comments or notes about the study which are visible to any researchers and PIs in the system but not to participants This field is useful if you want to make the technique used in the study visible to other researchers so they can set your study as a disqualifier if ne
121. uidance after saving your changes about how to use the survey code feature Online Survey Studies Introduction The system includes a rather extensive online survey feature if enabled on your system It allows you to set up an online survey as a study within the system and participants who sign up for the study will be asked to immediately complete the survey Upon their completion of the survey they will be granted credit automatically by the system You may then analyze their survey responses on an individual basis or download the raw data across all participants who completed the survey for further analysis There is a slight chance that you may notice a discrepancy in the number of responses when analyzing a single question compared to downloading the entire set of responses This can occur if a 39 participant is currently taking the survey but has not completed it Their data is included in the single question analysis when available but not in the full download of responses as there is not a full set of data for an in progress participant The system will prevent participants from completing the survey more than once so there is no risk of duplicate entries for the same participant To comply with research ethics guidelines the participant is given the opportunity to withdraw from the survey at any time If they withdraw they are taken to a form where they can submit any comments this is optional and their withdrawal is t
122. uld you like to cancel this signup Yes perform cancellation No do not cancel Figure 19 Manual Cancellation Viewing the Participant List To view the list of participants who have signed up for your study you must first select the study and timeslot you wish to see To view your studies choose the My Studies option from the top toolbar Click on the Edit link in the timeslots column for the desired study then select the timeslot you would like to see and click the Modify button The list of participants along with their email addresses will be listed If ID codes are enabled you will only see an ID code and no name or email address for each participant and the list will be sorted by ID code 63 Ix File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Qa O e 2 GD see Peros Amea 2S B Date September 29 2004 Start Time opm End Time 30 minutes after start time of Participants 3 Location Jones Hall Update View Other Timeslots for this Study ay l Sign Ups Listed below are all the participants who have signed up for this timeslot If you would like to grant or revoke credit simply choose the desired option next to each participant If for some reason you need to cancel a sign up you can click the Cancel link next to the sign up you would like to cancel A sign up must be in No Action Taken status before it can be cancelled You may grant a credit value rang
123. uling Leniency No The system will enforce the configuration for the second part in terms of ensuring participants only sign up for timeslots that meet the two part study restrictions As the researcher you also have additional control as you decide which timeslots to create for each part of the study Adding a Study Some researchers choose to set up their studies in the system before they have received the proper approvals usually from their IRB to run the study This is supported in the system You can setup a study but specify that is it not visible to participants this is the approved setting That way as soon as your approval is received you can simply make the study visible and everything else is already prepared You can also post a study and make it visible immediately if that is appropriate Some systems will be configured in such a manner that only the administrator can approve the study in which case you will need to contact the administrator to do so 10 E Study Information Microsoft Internet Explorer 10J x File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Qa O a A G Terme Ghee SB Links Please enter information below about the study The study n study visible to participants options including online surveys pre requisites email notific the other sections of the form Study Information ame may not be the same as any other studies to avoid confusion All fields are
124. ultiple choice numeric Yes No vile E Done Figure 13 Edit a Question Copying a Section You may copy a section from any of your own surveys into your current survey by choosing Copy From an Existing Section in the Section List You will see a list of eligible surveys to copy from After you choose which survey to copy from you will see a list of eligible sections in that survey Once you choose a section it will be copied into the survey you are currently editing You may copy only one section at a time because of the system performance impact when copying sections 48 The administrator also has the ability to copy to or from the prescreen so ask the administrator to do this for you if you need it done Copying a Question For multiple choice questions it is often the case that many questions have the same measures choices To make entry of similar questions easier you may use the Copy Question feature to copy a question Such an option is only available for multiple choice questions To copy a question select the question you would like to copy when viewing the Section List You will then be taken to a list of sections where you may copy this question to the default is set to the section the question came from After you decide which section you would like to copy the question to you will be taken to a page where you can make any final changes to the copy of the question before saving it Saving Yo
125. uncredited timeslots for online studies Timeslots for online studies including those in the future are always considered in need of a response See the Web Based Online Studies section of this documentation for more information If you would like to do a simple credit grant standard credit grant no comments or no show of either type you may do so directly from this page Select the desired sign ups timeslots and then choose the desired option The action may take a short time to complete so please be patient while the credit grants are processed If you need to do something more complex like add comments or perform a special credit grant with a non standard credit amount you can easily click on the timeslot s date and time and go directly to that timeslot In cases where a study has timeslots linked to specific researchers you will see the warning only for timeslots that are specifically linked to you or to everyone in the study i e not timeslots linked to someone else in the study However when you view uncredited timeslots you will see all uncredited timeslots for your studies even if someone else is linked to one of the timeslots for your study This is done to make it easier to give your fellow researchers for your studies assistance in dealing with uncredited timeslots 69 File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Flee Qm O 1 2 Psa Feros rei O 3 5 B Listed below are all uncredit
126. ur Changes When you are done you should go to the Final Review and save your changes Even if you plan to do further editing of the survey later it is imperative that you go to the Final Review step as the system needs to save certain special changes and make some computations If you do not want participants to participate in the survey yet you can save changes but keep the survey inactive When you save your changes it may take a moment to save all the changes as the system is performing a number of computations on the survey Please be patient as these computations are done to make performance for participants as fast as possible The system tracks which user last made the survey active or inactive and when they did this and this is displayed on the setup page AZ Final Review Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 x Ele Edit View Favorites Tools Help a Ox O Al Pawn ro Quan 2 LB ins My Experiments All Experiments Add New Experiment My Profile FAQ Logout You must apply all the changes you made to the survey You may edit the survey at a later date but you must apply the changes now to ensure all settings are properly saved When applying the changes you may choose to make the survey active so students may participate in the survey assuming the experiment is visible to students or make the survey inactive so it is not available to students The survey is currently inactive After you choose to a
127. y it is If you have set up the study on another website you should note the study is administered outside the system If you want to set up an online survey study to be administered by the system select the appropriate option Should survey participants be identified only by a random unique ID code This only applies to web based studies administered by the system and only if participant anonymous ID codes are not already turned on system wide If set to Yes participants are only identified by a unique system assigned ID code to protect their privacy Participants are also notified of this when they start the survey Once enabled this setting cannot be changed after participants have taken the survey as a matter of privacy protection Study URL The URL web address usually starting with http for your study This is only required for web based studies 15 administered outside the system If you are setting up a web based study outside the system and would like the system to pass a unique identifier in the URL so you may easily identify participants add the text SSURVEY CODE in the URL where you would like the identifier to be placed This is discussed in further detail in the Web Based Online Studies section of this documentation Credits Pay Enter the number of credits or compensation for the study A value of 0 is acceptable and may be desired in cases where the study is par

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