Building your Intervention – The ‘How to...’ Guide
The Basics - Building and Editing Pages Using LifeGuide
How to create a new intervention within the authoring tool
How to start editing an existing intervention, i.e. how to import a project
How to create a template to use the same formatting on every page of the intervention
How to create a new page in the authoring tool
How to rename an intervention or pages within an intervention
How to copy entire intervention pages
How to put images onto your intervention pages
How to copy and paste items on a page
How to change the look and feel of the intervention pages
How to align items on the page
How to order or layer items on the page
How to see what I have created in the authoring tool, i.e. how to preview your intervention
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 put buttons on your intervention pages so that users can move between pages
How to put in hyperlinks to other pages within the intervention
How to put in hyperlinks to external websites
How to put a Word or PDF file onto your intervention page
How to show the intervention pages to the user
How to check whether users have entered a unique value, e.g. Study ID code
How to stop users moving onto the next page before a certain condition has been satisfied
How to show users the current date and 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
How to ask users questions and record their responses
How to check whether users have entered valid information
How to allocate users a score based on their answers to a question or series of questions
How to tailor or change the information presented on a page based on information about the user Also describe count if function.
Putting it all Together: How to Make Your Pages Work as an Intervention
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
How to break your logic down into smaller sections
How to re-show information that users have told you
How to save information about users and use it later in the intervention
How to set text as a printed variable
Sharing and commenting on your intervention within your research team
How do I share my intervention with other researchers in my team?
How do I make a comment on an intervention?
How can I show my intervention to everyone on the LifeGuide Community website?
How do I view and export all comments made about my intervention?
Allowing Users to Log In and Out of Your Intervention (login logic)
How to register users to your intervention so that they can log in and out
How to make sure that users see the right 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 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 stop users from being randomised twice
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 use the online version of EQ-5D in your intervention
How to make sure new intervention sessions become available at the right time
Contacting Users of the Intervention
How to automatically send an email 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 (i.e. cancelling emails)
How to automatically send a text message to the users of your intervention
It Doesn’t Work! Fixing Problems in Your Intervention
How to fix the logic error “...”
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 do I export data from my intervention?
How do I convert time stamps in my data to readable dates and times?
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 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