Question about participant reloading and resuming study progress

Runyu

Dear JATOS Team,

I’m currently running a jsPsych experiment on JATOS. I’ve enabled the “Allow reload” option in my study, but I noticed that when a participant closes the page and reopens it (using the same link), the experiment always starts from the beginning, rather than resuming from where they left off.

Is there any way to allow participants to continue from their last position in the timeline when reloading the study?

Thank you in advance for your help!

Best regards,

Runyu

kri

Hi Runyu,

The "Allow reload" is just for this, allowing reloading of the page, e.g., with the browsers reload button or by closing the browser and opening it again. It does not provide for resuming the experiment where the participant has left. JATOS does not facilitates this out of the box and you have to incorporate this yourself. One way is to use JATOS study session or batch session to periodically save the state of your experiment (e.g. after each trial - if you have trials) and then after the reload recover the saved state.

Best,

Kristian

Runyu

Dear Kristian,

Thank you so much for your help and patience!

elisa

Hi Runyu,

In case it's helpful, we now have an example study with jsPsych that shows you how to allow participants to reload. This is all handled primarily from the client (jsPsych) side - just keep that in mind.

In the JATOS example pages, just search for 'reload' and you'll find the study.