3. Building your Intervention – The ‘How to...’ Guide
Building and Editing Pages Using LifeGuide
How to start building and editing an intervention from scratch
How to create a new intervention within the authoring tool
How to create a new intervention page in the authoring tool
How to see what I have created in the authoring tool Include: creating new project, saving, deleting, opening etc.
How to start editing an existing intervention E.g. explain how to import a project.
How to rename an intervention or pages within an intervention
How to make a page longer
How to change the look and feel of the intervention pages
How to create a template to use the same formatting on every page of the intervention
How to align items on the page
How to order or layer items on the page
How to group items together
How to add text to a page Explain that there are different types of text boxes to be used for different reason – normal is the default option to be used if you always want that text to appear. Other options are to be used if you only want the text to appear under certain conditions.
How to format text on a page
How to cut, copy, and paste items on a page
How to copy entire intervention pages
How to put images onto your intervention pages
Adding Multi-media Elements to Your Intervention Pages
How to put a video or mp3 file onto your intervention page
How to add a graph to your intervention page
How to add a calendar option to your intervention page
Making Your Intervention Pages Do Things
How to stop users moving onto the next page before a certain condition has been satisfied Describe setting text boxes to error here.
How to tell users they have forgotten to answer a question
How to check whether users have entered valid information Include patternmatch and stringlength here.
How to check whether users have entered information correctly
How to allocate users a score based on their answers to a question or series of questions Explain setting text as a variable.
How to re-show information that users have told you Explain setting text as a variable. Explain work around for drop down single choice interactions using replaceall.
How to tailor or change the information presented on a page based on information about the user Describe setting text boxes to feedback here. Explain use of containers. Also describe count if function.
How to put in hyperlinks to external websites
How to put in hyperlinks to other pages within the intervention
How to put a link to a pdf file onto your intervention page
How to ask users questions and record their responses Explain different types of interaction. Explain that you can graph responses – link to graphs section.
How to show users the current date or time
How to tell users the time or date that they viewed a particular page of the intervention or completed a particular section of the intervention
How to tell users how long it’s been since they last logged into the intervention
Putting it all Together: How to Make Your Pages Work as an Intervention
How to put buttons on your intervention pages so that users can move between pages
How to change the look and feel of buttons
How to show the your intervention pages to the user
How to make sure that users see intervention pages in the correct order
How to show the same page more than once in the intervention
How to change what intervention pages are seen according to information about the user Include the count if function here…?
How to break your logic down into smaller sections
How to put in hyperlinks to that users can move between pages
How to preview your intervention pages to see if they look right and work in the way you expect
How to save information about users
How to use saved information about users
How to make sure that users see the right page when they log back into the intervention
How to make sure that users are sent back to the last seen page when they log back into the intervention
Allowing Users to Log In and Out of Your Intervention
How to register users to your intervention so that they can log in and out
How to save information about users
How to use saved information about users
How to make sure that users see the right page when they log back into the intervention
How to make sure that users are sent back to the last seen page when they log back into the intervention.
How to let users change their password
How to give users a new password if they have forgotten it
Putting Time Constraints in Your Intervention
How to automatically send an email from your intervention on a certain date
How to show a particular intervention page on a specific date E.g. when the study has finished you may want to show a study has finished page.
How to show a particular intervention page when a specific amount of time has elapsed
Incorporating Research Procedures Within Your Intervention
How to randomise users of the Intervention to a particular group or condition
How to randomise users into two groups
How to randomise users into more than two groups
How to stratify randomisation by a particular user characteristic
How to do block randomisation
How to randomise more users to one group than another (unequal randomisation)
How to count the number of users who have done a specific thing within your intervention (e.g. consented, registered, seen a specific page etc.)
How to show follow up questionnaires at the right time
How to make sure new intervention sessions become available at the right time
Allowing User Interaction within the Intervention
Contacting Users of the Intervention
How to automatically send an email to the users of your intervention
How to automatically send a text message to the users of your intervention
How to automatically send an email to you or your research team
How to automatically send an email from your intervention on a certain date
How to stop emails being automatically sent from your intervention
It Doesn’t Work! Fixing Problems in Your Intervention
How to fix the logic error “...”
How to stop seeing a LifeGuide error page when you preview your intervention
Getting the Data you Want from Your Intervention
How to find out how long participants have spent on a specific part of your intervention
How to find out what intervention group users have been randomised to
How to record the time at which users viewed an intervention page or completed a particular section of the intervention
How to record whether or not a user has completed a particular section of the intervention (e.g. a questionnaire)
Testing and Piloting Your Intervention
How to preview your intervention pages to see if they look right and work in the way you expect
How to stop seeing a LifeGuide error page when you preview your intervention
How to use the LifeGuide Community Website
Running, Trialling and Evaluating Your Intervention
How to upload your intervention onto the LifeGuide server so that users can see and use it