Sona Systems Guide Adding Time Slots

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1 Sona Systems Guide Adding Time Slots Hello and welcome to the Behavioral Research Lab! This guide is intended to walk you through the steps to viewing and adding time slots on SONA. To get started, visit our SONA webpage brl.sona systems.com/. There you will be greeted by this page: If you are a returning participant, type in your user name and password to continue on. If you are a new user looking to create a researcher account, please see our website ( for instructions on how to create one. Once you are logged in, you will be greeted by the following page:

2 Let s start by adding time slots to a study. You will be able to do this only after your study is approved by the administrator on SONA (for more detailed instructions on this, see SONA Systems Guide Creating a Study). It is also imperative that you contact the lab coordinator to make room reservations prior to putting up time slots on SONA. After sending a request for a room reservation and receiving a confirmation back, the next step is to click on My Studies from your SONA homepage. You will then see a list of all the studies you have created on SONA.

3 In order to add new timeslots, after having contacted the lab coordinator for room reservations, click on Timeslots underneath View. You will then be able to view time slots for the current day, or you may select View All Timeslots to see the complete time slot history for the study. To add new time slots you have two options: Add a single slot, or add multiple slots. Let s start by adding a single slot. Click on Add A Timeslot to bring up the next page.

4 Now, fill in the specifics. When is this time slot occurring? (You can click on a date on the calendars to the right for easy assignment). Where is it taking place (confirmed by the lab coordinator, of course)? How many participants can sign up for this time slot? Once you have all that information filled in click Add This Timeslot. Congratulations! You have successfully added a time slot on SONA. From this screen you can see the details of your time slot, including the number of participants signed up. If you would like to edit the settings of your study, simply click Modify. Now let s say you find adding single time slots at a time rather tedious, and would like to speed up the process a bit. No problem! SONA allows us to add multiple time slots at once. Return to the screen that lists your time slots. Click on the study you would like to add slots to, then click Timeslots. This time, however, choose Add Multiple Timeslots. This will bring up a page slightly different than the one we worked with before:

5 As noted in SONA, it gives you two options for creating multiple time slots. Option #2 is selfexplanatory; if you want to exactly copy the slots from a previous week, just select 1) the week you wish to copy and 2) the week you wish to copy slots until. This will probably not be the option you will use, unless you have reserved the same spots for a couple of weeks in a row. Option #1 allows you to add multiple time slots per day. Simply select the date you would like to add time slots for, then the block of time you have reserved, and note any time

6 between slots that you would like (for prep, a break, or whatever). Before you click add, be sure to indicate the number of slots you are interested in adding for the day (as underlined in red, above). Finally, click add once you have entered everything in correctly. This will bring up a confirmation screen: As you can see, SONA will generate time slots based on your time parameters, the break you would like in between studies (although I selected 0 minutes), and the length of your study. This is an easy way to put up slots for an entire day with a single click of your mouse. If everything looks accurate to you, click Add Selected Timeslots. Congratulations! You have just done a whole bunch of work with minimal effort. For instructions on how to delete time slots, please see SONA Systems Guide Deleting time slots.