After the early access pre-launch of Recollective On-Demand, a free simplified version of Recollective, we've had a very busy October. To keep the momentum up, the Ramius developers have been back at it with some great new improvements to the platform.
After the early access pre-launch of Recollective On-Demand, a free simplified version of Recollective, we've had a very busy October. To keep the momentum up, the Ramius developers have been back at it with some great new improvements to the platform. Here's what we released in November:
While it's always been possible to perform a "Support Login" and experience a Study from the perspective of a specific participant, client or moderator, we wanted to make it easier to do this kind of check before a study was opened and participants uploaded.
Similarly, Recollective had the ability to preview a single activity or task but you could not remain in this preview state to test all screens or traverse through complex linkages between activities and discussions or even across studies.
Now, that's all changed. Analysts can select "Preview As..." in the control panel to immediately experience their study as one of the various user roles supported (Participant, Client or Moderator). It's a single click operation and the study can remain in a draft state.
In previous releases we provided the capability to have a Poll or Prompt task route the participant out of the activity based on their response choice. That left the activity in an "incomplete" state.
We've improved the process to have that kind of branching action mark the initial activity as completed (i.e. any remaining tasks are marked as skipped). This setting is enabled by default but can be disabled if you plan to direct the participant back to the activity (which tends to be rare but occasionally is necessary).
What that means is complex task branching scenarios can now be achieved with greater ease as there's no need to route participants to a final prompt task to generate a proper "Completed" status (e.g. you can, for example, disqualify a participant in one step).
In longer-term studies, participant churn is inevitable. People are either removed from one study (but left active) or their entire panelist record is deactivated. In either case, your feedback has indicated it's helpful for that person's past contributions to remain easily accessible and accounted for in statistics.
For example, if a study has 10 active participants but only 8 did an activity, the response rate is 80%. If two past (inactive) participants had responded to that same activity, Recollective previously showed "10/10 (100%)".
Following this update, we now add inactive participant responses to the denominator so the response rate becomes "10/12".
We've updated our chart library to its latest version which solves some issues with pie chart labels that could occasionally appear cutoff.