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Sona

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— These instructions apply only to the group of Prof. Andreatta, Chair for Psychology 1 —

Follow this procedure to setup a Sona study

  1. Request an account with your @stud-mail.uni-wuerzurg or @uni-wuerzburg email address (if not existing yet)
  2. Ask your supervisior to file a Researcher Upgrade Request for your email address in the internal MS Teams Sona channel
  3. Select Add a new study
  4. Select compensation type (prefixes in bold, nothing else bold):
    1. If only VP hours:
      1. Create Credit Study
      2. Select only the group BSc Psychology in Course Restricition
      3. Add prefix (in bold <b>bold text here</b>) to title, depending on target group:
        1. BSc Psychologie: "<b>Psychologie-VPh</b>: …"
        2. BSc Psychologie ExPra: "<b>Psychologie-ExPra-VPh</b>: …"
    2. If only financial compensation:
      1. Create Paid Study
    3. If participants choose VP hours or financial compensation:
      1. Create 2 studies: One Paid Study and one Credit Study, each as described above.
      2. Timeslots between the two studies must not overlap.
      3. Each study must disqualify for the other: Mutually list the other study in Study Information under Exclusion Criteria: Change study information > Advanced Settings > Disqualifiers
  5. Add L1 at the end of study title, e.g., "<b>Psychologie-VPh</b>: … (L1)"
  6. Add supervisor as reseacher in the study Change study information > Researcher
  7. Check that both the supervisor(s) and students have contact details added to their SONA accounts (@uni-wuerzburg.de or @stud-mail.uni-wuerzburg.de e-mail adresses and/or telephone numbers)
  8. Add information about the researchers to the bottom of the study description field
    1. Name of student(s), e.g., "Die Studie wird von <b>Max Musterhiwi</b> und <b>Manuela Masterstudentin</b> durchgeführt."
    2. Name and email of supervisor(s), e.g., "Die Versuchsbetreuung liegt bei <b>Brigitte Betreuerin</b> und <b>Doris Doktorandin</b> am <b>Lehrstuhl für Psychologie I</b>."
  9. Enable "Researchers at Time-Slot Level"
  10. Ask your supervisior to file a Study Approval Request for your study in the internal MS Teams Sona channel: Post the title of the study, url does not work. Only studies that follow the instructions above get approved.
  11. Studies are only visible to participants if timeslots are active. Hint for online studies: create a timeslot on the last day and set number of participants to maximum.
  12. Acitivate study to make it visible Change study information > Active Study? > Yes
  13. After finishing your study, deactivtate it: Change study information > Active Study? > No

Pitfalls

  1. Do not click the button "Send Request" (or similar) for approval. Such request will be ignored and generates additional workload.
  2. After each change the study needs to get approved again. So check after each change, if new approval is required.

How-to register VP hours for students

  1. In Sona you need to grant the VP hours after participants completet their slots: Got go "View/Administer Time Slots" > "All Timeslots" > "Modify" for each slot > Select in the "Credit Granted" column otherwise in the "No-Show" column > "Update Sign-Ups"
  2. Some students will contact you if they need a signature for the "gelben Zettel". For these students, do the following:
    1. For each student fill out this form, and sign digitally.
    2. Send all filled and signed forms in one bulk to the supervisor as PDF files.
    3. She or he sends them back with their digital signature.
    4. Send the completed PDF files to the respective students.

Further information

  1. You can integrate Sona with basically all online study platforms for automated credit granting.

Approval check for admins

Admins sind: Daniel Gromer, Ivo Käthner, Kirsten Hilger

  1. Title starts with study type (e.g. <b>Psychologie-VPh</b>) in bold, and nothing else is bold in title
  2. Title ends with "(L1)"
  3. Supervisor is added as Researcher
  4. Both supervisor(s) and student(s) have contact details
  5. Name of student and of supervisor (with email and chair) at the bottom of description
  6. "Researchers at Time-Slot Level" option enabled
  7. For VPh studies, see if "course restriction" is set to group "BSc Psychologie".