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What is a Run? What is an Activity? What are Participants? What is Participant Feedback? What is an Assignment? What is the Demographic pre-survey? What are the Assignment Statuses? What are Query string parameters? What are Custom attributes? What is Previous participation targeting? What is my Dashboard? What is a Project? What are Participant Quality filters? What is an Assignment ID?
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Instructions for integrating GuidedTrack with Positly Instructions for Integrating Google Forms with Positly Integrate your activity to receive Participant attributes and Demographic information using Query string parameters Dynamically set Custom attributes using Query strings Instructions for integrating SurveyMonkey with Positly Instructions for integrating Typeform with Positly Instructions for integrating Qualtrics with Positly Attribute names for unique participant attributes (e.g. identifiers and pre-screened demographics) Setting the Completion link Customising URL query string attributes for participant IDs and demographics Instructions for integrating GetFeedback with Positly Conducting audio or video interviews with Positly Instructions for integrating Gorilla with Positly Instructions for Integrating Pointerpro with Positly Instructions for Integrating Microsoft Forms with Positly Instructions for Integrating PollUnit with Positly
Managing Participants
Giving Bonuses individually or in bulk Manually setting Custom attributes individually and in bulk Sending Messages individually and in bulk
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Setting the estimated average and maximum completion time
Screening Participants
Screening question templates for your studies Five ways to target screened participants with Positly Adding Positly's Screening Link to your activity
Basic Setup
How exactly does Positly work? How to create your first study on Positly Targeting Participants using Demographics Targeting Participants using Custom attributes Targeting or excluding Participants from Previous activities Setting the Completion link Setting the estimated average and maximum completion time Why should I pilot my studies? What participant targeting is available on Positly? Personally Identifiable Information Guidelines for Positly Choosing a platform on Positly
Billing
Billing and transaction log Refunds
Glossary
What is a Run? What is an Activity? What are Participants? What is Participant Feedback? What is an Assignment? What is the Demographic pre-survey? What are the Assignment Statuses? What are Query string parameters? What are Custom attributes? What is Previous participation targeting? What is my Dashboard? What is a Project? What are Participant Quality filters? What is an Assignment ID?
Integrations
Instructions for integrating GuidedTrack with Positly Instructions for Integrating Google Forms with Positly Integrate your activity to receive Participant attributes and Demographic information using Query string parameters Dynamically set Custom attributes using Query strings Instructions for integrating SurveyMonkey with Positly Instructions for integrating Typeform with Positly Instructions for integrating Qualtrics with Positly Attribute names for unique participant attributes (e.g. identifiers and pre-screened demographics) Setting the Completion link Customising URL query string attributes for participant IDs and demographics Instructions for integrating GetFeedback with Positly Conducting audio or video interviews with Positly Instructions for integrating Gorilla with Positly Instructions for Integrating Pointerpro with Positly Instructions for Integrating Microsoft Forms with Positly Instructions for Integrating PollUnit with Positly
Managing Participants
Giving Bonuses individually or in bulk Manually setting Custom attributes individually and in bulk Sending Messages individually and in bulk
Pricing
Setting the estimated average and maximum completion time
Screening Participants
Screening question templates for your studies Five ways to target screened participants with Positly Adding Positly's Screening Link to your activity

What is an Activity?

Updated: 07, Tue, 2023 03:53 PM

Your Activity is the thing that you are asking Participants to do for your study.

Most commonly this is a survey using web-based software such as GuidedTrack, Google Forms or Qualtrics. However, it’s not limited to surveys and can be an experiment, game, stimulus-response task, web application, interactive multimedia activity or anything else that is accessible online via a link.

Before a Participant completes your activity they will see your:

  • Activity title
    A short title that succinctly Describes the activity to participants
  • Activity description
    An explanation of the study and what will be required of them
  • Estimated time to complete activity
    How long will this take them?
  • Payment per activity completion
    Incentives and compensation for their time
  • Keywords (optional)
    Help your Activity show up better in search results
  • Extra instructions (optional)
    Provides additional space to give Participants instructions

They can then choose to Accept the Assignment if they would like to.

At that point they start the Demographic pre-survey before being redirected to your Activity link to complete your activity (e.g. survey).

Once they finish the activity they will need to follow the Completion link to the Feedback survey to confirm completion of the Assignment and be automatically Approved.

When we redirect Participants from the Demographic pre-survey to your Activity link we use Query string parameters to dynamically pass Participant attributes (e.g. unique identifiers and demographics) through to your activity software.

This means that you do not need to ask your participants for these identifiers and Basic demographics. You may need to setup your software to accept these parameters so that you can track unique identifiers and Demographic attributes.

If you would like to dynamically set Custom attributes for Participants then you can also add Query string parameters onto the Completion link when you redirect them to the Feedback survey using the Completion link.

These Custom attributes can be used to target Participants in future Runs.

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