- System overview
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- The participant view
- The experimenter view
- Maintaining the subject pool
- Other experimenter interface features
- Online configuration
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- Installation
- Tips and tricks
From time to time the subjectpool administrator may want to clean the database from inactive participant profiles. ORSEE allows for that using the pending_profile_update_request
flag. Here is the proposed procedure:
Set profile update request
to set their flag to inactive
.last_activity
was earlier than, say, 6 months ago.Set profile update request
to set the flag for these participant to active
.Send bulk email
to send these participants an email asking them to confirm their participation in the subject pool. They can confirm their participation by following the link to their profile edit page, which is automatically included in the footer of the bulk email. There, they checking and complete their data, and eventually confirm by saving their data. Give them a deadline, and tell them that they will be unsubscribed if they did not confirm by then.pending_profile_update_request
flag set to active
. (The flag will automatically set to inactive
when they edit and save their profile.)pending_profile_update_request
flag set to active
a reminder email, using the bulk action Send bulk email
' again.pending_profile_update_request
flag set to active
, and use the bulk action Set participant status
to unsubscribe them from the database.
Another use case of this feature is when you introduce a new field in the participant profile form and want to make sure that all your active participants completed it (just approach all active participants rather than only those who have been inactive in the last 6 months), or when you want to move some subjects to a new sub-subject pool (which in turn may require different profile field data). An example of the latter case is when you want to ask students who soon leave university whether they would like to continue in an alumni pool (in this case you can use the field Upon accessing profile for update, set subject pool of participant to
in the form for bulk action Set profile update request
.