Cohort & Group

To manage a cohort or group, click on 'Edit Cohort' or 'Edit Group' button next to their respective titles on the Dashboard.After creating the Cohorts & Groups, you can create participants on the Active Participants page and assign them to the appropriate Cohort & Group.

• Managing Cohorts and Groups:-

  

  • Enter a Cohort or Group Name:

    • Once created, you will see it in the QC section at the bottom of the page

      

    • You then have the option of confirming that Cohort or Group in the QC section

      

    • Any Cohort or Group that has been activated can be edited as well by clicking the pencil in the edit field

    • This field must be unique

• Deleting Cohorts and Groups:-

  • If you want to delete a Cohort or Group, you must first delete all associated data with it before MAMRT will allow you to delete

  • This will include:

    • Resources

    • Custom pages

    • Question sets

    • Active Participants

      

• Manage Resources

  
  • You can access this page through the Dashboard
    • Click on “Edit Resources”
  • You can upload materials here for participants to access in their “My Resource” Page.
  • You can assign specific materials for certain Cohorts & Groups
  • Be sure to include required fields:
    • Resource name
    • Resource description
    • Also assign the Cohort & Group
  • After creating it, it will appear in the QC Section
  • Once you QC, it will be available to participants in the “My Resources” tab, only if this menu feature is turned on for your study.

    Manage Application Menu

    • Next to the “Application Menu” click “Edit Fields”
    • Here you can choose whether certain participant pages are “On” or “Off”
      • My Resources – where participants can view materials provided to them
      • My Schedule – where participants can go to view a timeline of appointments
      • My Profile – where participants can go to view the information about themselves they have provided
      • Contact Us – where participants can go to send a message to study personnel regarding questions/concerns they have about the study

• Manage Application Settings

  • Next to the “Application Setting” click “Edit Fields”
  • Here you can choose whether certain ‘My Study’ features are “On” or “Off”
    • Cues are Images/text/audio that you can assign to participants
    • Questions page is where the participants can be asked to provide answers
    • Minute DD is where participants can be tested about their delayed gratification
      • You can assign different value amounts based on protocol requirements
    • Custom can be anything a team would like to integrate into application
  • These MAMRT settings apply to the participants and will affect when/how they see these features
  • Above “Questions A” and “Custom Page” you will see pencil edit buttons.
    • Only click edit after you have successfully saved your application settings
  • Here you can set up what a session could look like for a participant
    • Participant could look at their cues (Text, Audio, or Image)
    • Participant could answer a few questions (A few random/fixed)
    • Test the DD ($50 vs $500)
    • We setup a reading module for the custom page
      
    • In the cues section under display also have the option to display “Random” or “Fixed” cues
      • When the cues are generated for the participants they can be in the order you created them “Fixed” or you can choose to randomize the cues.
    • Also in that section is a choice of how many cues are active.
      • Choosing whether to have all active or only certain number displayed out of the total
      • When setting an active number, be sure to set it larger than zero.
  • Manage Questions
    • After saving your application settings. You can then click on the edit button for the question page
      • To access this page you have to edit “application settings” then click “New” to create a question set
    • You can choose the number of questions that participants will answer before/after receiving their cues here. (If this is activated)
    • When creating a new set you will be prompted with the following:
      • Question label as well as which cohort and group it belongs to.
      • Then will be prompted to choose the type of question you wish to create.
    • Selected question types are listed in the order created
    • Choose which questions are fixed/random
    • Select ‘Click to add Question’ to input question
    • For RadioButton, CheckBox, and Dropdown, input choice values
    • You will also notice a delete option. This would delete the individual question and not the whole question set.
    • Amount of questions that can be added is at the discretion of the project. The total amount of questions is displayed in the “Total Pool” section.You will also notice a pool at the bottom.
      • The green box is changeable to how many random questions you would like to display to the participants.
      • Fixed questions will always be display.

      • Disabled questions will never appear to the participants but are there for your convenience to turn questions on/off instead of recreating the question set

        Note

        If you set the max random allowed to more than the random pool you created, MAMRT will just show the random amount you have in the question set. It won’t create random questions for you.

    • Be sure to QC the question set after saving.
    • Verifying:
      • That the questions you’ve entered are for the correct Cohort and Group
      • Content of the question is accurate (spelling, word usage, and etc.)
    • You also MUST activate the question set for each cohort and group or they will not see the questions as part of their session.
    • The duplicate feature allows you to re-create a question set you have already created
      • This is for convenience to be able to assign a question set to another Cohort/Group you could do it with ease
      • When you click on the “Duplicate” icon, a window will pop up prompting editing of the question set as if you have just were editing any other question set. Make the edition you need. Then click save.
      • Be sure to QC the question set after saving. You also MUST activate the question set as any other.
        
  • Manage Custom Page
    • After saving your application settings. Click to edit them again. Then you can click on the edit button for the custom page
    • You can add the literature that participants will read/review before or after receiving their other features as an option. (If this is activated)
    • When working in the editor you can click this button and it will allow you to enlarge the editor
    • This page can allow custom feature such as integrating other software/platforms that a team might be using and can be integrated into this section
    • Be sure to QC the page after saving.
    • Verifying:
      • That the Custom Page you’ve entered is for the correct Cohort and Group
      • Content of the page is accurate (spelling, word usage, and etc.)
    • You also MUST activate the Custom Page for each Cohort/Group or they will not see the page as part of their session.