Running and sharing studies online

Online studies are realized via PsychoJS; the online counterpart of PsychoPy^®. To run your study online, these are the basic steps:

• Check the features supported by PsychoJS to ensure the components you need will work online
• Make your experiment in Builder
• Configure the online settings of your experiment
• Launch your study on Pavlovia.org

We also really recommend taking a look at this index of tips from our Science Officer Wake on our forum!

When making an experiment to run online, there are a few important considerations to make and we highly recommend reading through the considerations below, as they could save a lot of time in the long run!

• Resources in online studies
• Media formats suitable for online studies
• Checking media is the correct format
• Multisession testing, Counterbalancing, checking existing IDs, multiplayer games and in-game leaderboard
• Caveats and cautions (timing accuracy and web-browser support)

PsychoPy and Pavlovia can also be used in conjunction with external servies, see below for guides for some common ones:

• MTurk
• Profilic
• Qualtrics
• SONA

Related links

• Troubleshooting Online Studies
• Searching for experiments on Pavlovia
• Contributing an experiment to Pavlovia
• How to recruit participants and connect with online services
• How to counterbalance participants across conditions
• How does it work?
• Manually coding PsychoJS studies
• Usage statistics for Pavlovia

The first generation of PsychoJS was realized by a Wellcome Trust grant, awarded in January 2018. to make online studies possible from PsychoPy^®. This is what we call PsychoPy3 - the 3rd major phase of PsychoPy’s development.

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