GuidedTrack Docs
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- Function & Keyword API
- Changelog
- GuidedTrack Manual
- Helpful resources
- Using the GuidedTrack website
- Account dashboard
- Adding collaborators and restricting access
- Creating a program
- Creating an account
- Deleting a program
- Downloading your program and all its subprograms
- Looking at the data
- Previewing your program as you are editing it
- Removing "Reset everything" from the hamburger menu
- Resetting a user's run manually
- Sharing your program with users
- Version control
- Versioning
- Basic elements of a GuidedTrack program
- Asking questions
- Allowing other answers to multiple-choice and checkbox questions
- Multiple Choice Where What Happens Depends on the Answer
- Question Add-Ons
- Questionnaire answer scales using `*answers`
- Rank-order questions
- Searchable Answers
- Standard Checkbox Questions
- Standard Date/Time Questions
- Standard Multiple-Choice Questions
- Standard Picture Questions
- Standard Slider Questions
- Standard Text Box Questions
- Text Boxes Where What Happens Depends on the Answer
- Additional keywords
- Associations (AKA Dictionaries, Hash Maps, Hash Tables, or Associative Arrays)
- Charts
- Clearing the Screen
- Collections (AKA Arrays or Lists)
- Components
- Date/Time Features
- Emailing Users
- Events and Triggers
- Experiments
- Going to Different Parts of the Program or to Other Websites
- Headers
- HTML code
- If This, Then That
- Links
- Lists
- Logged-in user Email Request
- Logging in
- Maintaining Text on the Screen
- Media
- Page Breaks
- Page Navigation
- Points
- Program Library
- Programs within Programs
- Progress Bars
- Quitting a user's run
- Randomizing What is Displayed
- Repeating
- Return users to the prior program
- Share Buttons
- Switching Users Around Multiple Saved Positions
- Variables
- Advanced options
- Research Guide
- Passing data
- How to maintain participant confidentiality
- How to collect demographic variables via Positly
- "Keeping track of participants, showing them their results, and more: Why might it be useful to use query string parameters in my survey/study?"
- "Incorporating Customized Variables into URLs: How to use query string parameters to keep track of participants' details across multiple surveys"
- Recruiting participants
- How to pay participants different amounts depending on whether they participate in the screening survey only, or the full survey
- "If you are collecting participants' email addresses: seek consent first!"
- 'How to end a study early and prevent participants from changing previous answers: use the `*quit` keyword and hide the "Run menu"'
- "How to format URLs when sharing them in emails: if you're using query string parameters, use hyperlinks rather than displaying the URL directly"
- How to progress from a screening/initial to a full/follow-up survey
- "How to avoid biased responses due to screening survey inclusion/exclusion criteria: if possible, don't spell out the criteria"
- Why and how to run multiple separate studies
- "How to reduce dropout in studies that collect data from each participant at multiple times: seek well-informed consent and commitment to the study, prior to enrollment and randomization"
- How to reimburse participants for their time
- How to send multiple follow-up emails at prespecified timepoints
- How to screen for your survey/study
- How to share results with participants via email
- Randomizing groups and experiments
- Building user-friendly surveys
- How to adapt your survey to the use of the `*back` arrow
- When to use the `*confirm` keyword for a multiple-choice question
- "How to administer questions: as a general rule, use one question per page"
- How to use a progress bar
- How and when to collect demographic-related questions and sensitive questions
- How to set clear expectations at the start of the survey/study
- Avoiding bias
- How and when to uses bipolar answer scales (e.g., agree to disagree)
- How to ensure that a participant meant to leave a `*multiple` question blank
- How to design questions that allow multiple responses (i.e., checkbox questions)
- How to use and create coding variables for continuum scales
- Why and how to create coding variables
- How to check for participant comprehension and attention
- How to structure Likert scale questions
- How to code questions where participants must provide numerical responses
- How to avoid asking redundant questions
- How to provide the same set of instructions for entire sets of questions
- How to calculate questionnaire scores when some items require reverse scoring
- How should you choose when to shuffle and when to use a specific order?
- How to design questions that ask participants to choose one item from a set of options
- How and when to use slider questions
- How to select the type of multi-choice question that's suited to your answer options
- How and when to use unipolar answer scales (e.g., "never" to "all the time")
- How to avoid making participants scroll unnecessarily
- "`*while` loops"
- Formatting, branding, and finishing
- Passing data
- Search