Last year, the new Home tab in Recollective took over for the "Study Overview". The Home page features a modular layout made up of "cards" that provide tremendous freedom to personalize the page. In the recent December 2016 update to Recollective, we made the Home page much more sweet with a trio of dynamic cards: Activities Card, Discussions Card, and People Card.
Last year, the new Home tab in Recollective took over for the "Study Overview". Both were focused on welcoming new participants to your study and guiding them to their first or next activity. The Home page became the preferred solution as it can incorporate more information while being far more flexible. The Home page features a modular layout made up of "cards" that provide tremendous freedom to personalize the page. In the recent December 2016 update to Recollective, we made the Home page much more sweet with a trio of dynamic cards:
We also introduced a new default home page template, and the ability to copy and paste cards in the same study or across studies.
Every new study now starts with a default arrangement of cards on the Home tab. It saves moderators time by suggesting a best practice for home page usage. This template is made possible by the new card types introduced in the last release, each of which are discussed in greater detail below. After creating a study it typically has no activities, discussions or active participants. The template therefore works to provide a rough preview of its layout:
Once the study is populated with people and content, the same template comes to life:
Nothing about the home page template must remain as it's presented. Cards can be added, re-configured or removed. We recommend adding photos and webcam videos to make the page even more engaging. You can also add the same card type multiple times such as listing people on your leaderboard in addition to those that have recently visited.
If you have an existing study or would like to revert to the default template. you can do that via Page Options. Select Revert to Default as shown below:
Any existing draft page will be lost but your published page (seen by participants) will remain unchanged. Once you've re-customized the template, press Publish.
Activities are at the heart of the Recollective research experience. Here are some sample uses of this new card type:
A few things to note:
Discussions are at the heart of the Recollective community experience. Here are some sample uses of this new card type:
A few things to note:
People are both the community and key ingredient of your research so this card is an important one. It has many great uses:
A few things to note:
Cards you configure can now be copied and pasted in the same study or across studies (within the same site). Select the action menu on the card and choose Copy as shown below:
In the same study, or in another study, press Add or Paste Card and then Paste Card
The card will appear at the bottom of the page. You can reposition and resize the pasted card without affecting the original card. Either card can be removed without affecting the other. Overall, we hope you enjoy these new features and look forward to seeing the pages you create!