New Insights Platform coming
Qualtrics is introducing some substantial changes to the look and feel of the main qualtrics workspace. The Research Suite platform is being replaced by the new Insights platform. During the transition users will be able…
Users grow to over 400
Qualtrics has been in place for 2 years, first in Psychology and Neuroscience and now across the university. Usage grew slowly for the first year or so but has increased dramatically in the last few months as can be…
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Using Time in Qualtrics Studies
Qualtrics enables us to make use of time information in many different ways There are many ways in which time is an…
Simple use of title bar in St Andrews header
The new St Andrews brand header incorporates a blue banner…
Multiple conditions in one Questionnaire
If creating an online study with multiple conditions, it is…
Using Loop and Merge to avoid repetition
There are often times in a questionnaire when the same…
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How to randomly distribute to multiple surveys
There are a number of times when as part of a study you want to allocate participants to different conditions. The traditional way to do this is to creating multiple independent surveys and then use a common initial page to create a random number and then send…
Qualtrics and local ethics
At St Andrews the ethics committee UTREC (University Teaching and Research Ethics Committee) recommends the use of qualtrics for online surveys. They also acknowledge the fact that the longer information sheets and consent forms used in face-to-face research are often not appropriate in an online…
University license transition completed
The merger of the Psychology and Neuroscience license into the full University license is now completed. There were some unexpected problems to solve in fully integrating Qualtrics into the university’s single sign-on (SSO) mechanism, but that is now resolved. This now offers a much more…
Transition arrangements
We are merging the original Qualtrics account held by Psychology and Neuroscience with the new University-wide account. This will mean that Psychology users will be brought across to the new St Andrews account, and that all users will created and managed via the university’s single…
University adopts a full Qualtrics license
After trialling Qualtrics for a year in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience, there was enough interest outside of Psychology as well to bring in a university-wide license. This is immediate good news for users in Management, Medicine, and Human Geography who are already using…
How do I get more meaningful variable names in SPSS
Many researchers are used to having to add this meaning within SPSS (or other packages) after data collection using variable and value labels, but Qualtrics can actually do a lot to help with this. As default behaviour Qualtrics actually codes your responses for you (that is,…