Introduction

In short: CloudResearch is a commercial platform helping you to find the correct participant. You will need to pay them via the CloudResearch platform

Specific benefits of CloudResearch:

  • It is a US-based company with a large participant database

  • It is easy to set up a study

  • It is well managed and relatively affordable

CloudResearch is a company that helps researchers with finding participants. It is similar to other systems in functionality, such as Prolific.

It is super easy to use CloudResearch with PsyToolkit.

Step 1

In PsyToolkit: Setup your survey in PsyToolkit as usual and get your PsyToolkit study URL. Use "Copy link to clipboard" or copy-and-paste the web link.

INFO: For the sake of demonstration, imagine the PsyToolkit web URL is:

https://www.psytoolkit.org/c/3.6.2/survey?s=TOpGKxyz

This is just an example link that in reality does not actually go anywhere.

Step 2

In CloudResearch: Make sure you have a researcher account. Login to that.

Set up your study and you will get at the completion a redirect URL

Step 3

Enter the redirect URL into PsyToolkit and save. Also make sure to compile your survey once more.

Step 4

You are ready to go. If you start your study now on CloudResearch, participants will automatically be sent to the PsyToolkit survey. At the end of the PsyToolkit survey, they will be sent back to CloudResearch so that they get their financial reward.