# How-To **URL:** https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/c/how-to/15.md [Latest](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/tags.md) --- ## [How to Make the Font Size Bigger](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/how-to-make-the-font-size-bigger/1619)
**Author:** [@zahra](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/zahra)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 9, 2026, 3:50pm UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/how-to-make-the-font-size-bigger/1619 "2026-09-09T15:50:19Z")
Some participants, particularly older adults, prefer larger text on screen. There are two ways to increase text size in Avicenna, depending on what needs to be larger. If a participant wants the whole app to be larger, … --- ## [Setting Up Multiple Survey Reminders](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/setting-up-multiple-survey-reminders/1549)
**Author:** [@leila](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/leila)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2026, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/setting-up-multiple-survey-reminders/1549 "2026-06-15T14:54:43Z")
Sending timely reminders can significantly boost participant engagement and survey completion rates in longitudinal or experience-sampling studies. By setting up a sequence of notifications, you can gently nudge particip… --- ## [How to Wrap Up a Participant's Last Day in Your Study](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/how-to-wrap-up-a-participants-last-day-in-your-study/1548)
**Author:** [@leila](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/leila)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2026, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/how-to-wrap-up-a-participants-last-day-in-your-study/1548 "2026-06-15T14:54:39Z")
The Situation You have a study with a fixed duration (e.g., 14 days), and you want to automate the tasks that need to happen at the end of each participant’s participation: Know when a participant reaches their final d… --- ## [How to Get the Last Response from the Current Session](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/how-to-get-the-last-response-from-the-current-session/1547)
**Author:** [@leila](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/leila)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2026, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/how-to-get-the-last-response-from-the-current-session/1547 "2026-06-15T14:54:35Z")
In experience sampling or longitudinal studies, researchers often want to show or hide questions based on how a participant answered earlier in the same session. By default, Avicenna looks at all sessions (including pas… --- ## [How to Track Participant Engagement with a Specific Activity](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/how-to-track-participant-engagement-with-a-specific-activity/1541)
**Author:** [@soroosh](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/soroosh)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 1, 2026, 6:08am UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/how-to-track-participant-engagement-with-a-specific-activity/1541 "2026-06-01T06:08:50Z")
Avicenna Researcher Dashboard offers different aggregate reports to help you monitor their adherence throughout the study. However, when you want to understand how often and when participants opened a particular activity… --- ## [Citing Avicenna Research in Your Publications](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/citing-avicenna-research-in-your-publications/1533)
**Author:** [@soroosh](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/soroosh)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [May 23, 2026, 10:02am UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/citing-avicenna-research-in-your-publications/1533 "2026-05-23T10:02:49Z")
When you publish findings from a study conducted with Avicenna, properly citing the platform ensures your methodology is transparent and reproducible. It also helps other researchers discover Avicenna when reading your w… --- ## [Study Recruitment Recommendations](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/study-recruitment-recommendations/1492)
**Author:** [@soroosh](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/soroosh)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [January 28, 2026, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/study-recruitment-recommendations/1492 "2026-01-28T19:21:25Z")
Effective participant recruitment is one of the most critical factors in determining the success of a research study. A well-planned recruitment strategy not only helps you reach your target sample size but also ensures … --- ## [How to Send a Notification with a Manually Released Activity](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/how-to-send-a-notification-with-a-manually-released-activity/1449)
**Author:** [@leila](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/leila)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 22, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/how-to-send-a-notification-with-a-manually-released-activity/1449 "2025-11-22T15:00:30Z")
This guide explains a workaround to send a one-time message to all participants in a study using a manually released survey. The Situation You are running a study and need to send a one-time message to all participants … --- ## [How to Set Up Conditional Survey Routing Based on Responses and Participant Limits](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/how-to-set-up-conditional-survey-routing-based-on-responses-and-participant-limits/1438)
**Author:** [@soroosh](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/soroosh)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 5, 2025, 9:12am UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/how-to-set-up-conditional-survey-routing-based-on-responses-and-participant-limits/1438 "2025-11-05T09:12:36Z")
This guide shows you how to set up conditional survey routing, where participants are directed to different surveys based on their response values and a participant limit. This type of conditional routing is useful for: … --- ## [How to Run Experience Sampling Study Without App or Participant Registration](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/how-to-run-experience-sampling-study-without-app-or-participant-registration/1437)
**Author:** [@soroosh](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/soroosh)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 4, 2025, 11:04am UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/how-to-run-experience-sampling-study-without-app-or-participant-registration/1437 "2025-11-04T11:04:22Z")
Many experience sampling studies rely on scheduled email reminders sent to participants at regular intervals. Avicenna supports this approach through Public Triggering Logic, which allows participants to complete surveys… --- ## [How to Run a Multi‑Phase Study](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/how-to-run-a-multi-phase-study/1436)
**Author:** [@soroosh](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/soroosh)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 3, 2025, 6:39am UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/how-to-run-a-multi-phase-study/1436 "2025-11-03T06:39:09Z")
You can design a study with multiple phases (for example, a 1-week pre-treatment phase, a treatment phase, and a 1-week post-treatment phase) by combining participant variables, criteria, and triggering logics. This guid… --- ## [How to Achieve Higher Compliance Rates](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/how-to-achieve-higher-compliance-rates/1435)
**Author:** [@soroosh](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/soroosh)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [November 1, 2025, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/how-to-achieve-higher-compliance-rates/1435 "2025-11-01T15:59:16Z")
Low participant compliance or recruiting participants who are not well suited for a study can introduce non-response bias and reduce data quality. How can you ensure that only the participants who are truly suited for yo… --- ## [Send Notifications to Participants When Their Completion Rate Drops Below a Threshold](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/send-notifications-to-participants-when-their-completion-rate-drops-below-a-threshold/1431)
**Author:** [@somayeh](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/somayeh)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2025, 7:41am UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/send-notifications-to-participants-when-their-completion-rate-drops-below-a-threshold/1431 "2025-10-22T07:41:12Z")
Maintaining participant engagement is essential in long-term studies. Sometimes, you may want to remind participants who have not been completing their activities regularly. Although Avicenna does not natively support au… --- ## [Match Participants' Avicenna IDs with Their External IDs](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/match-participants-avicenna-ids-with-their-external-ids/1430)
**Author:** [@soroosh](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/soroosh)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [October 22, 2025, 7:21am UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/match-participants-avicenna-ids-with-their-external-ids/1430 "2025-10-22T07:21:02Z")
The Situation You need to link participants’ Avicenna IDs with their external identifiers from other systems or databases. This is common when: Importing participants from existing databases Working with multi-platform… --- ## [Prompt an Activity Only After a Survey Is Responded To](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/prompt-an-activity-only-after-a-survey-is-responded-to/1402)
**Author:** [@somayeh](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/somayeh)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [September 24, 2025, 12:25pm UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/prompt-an-activity-only-after-a-survey-is-responded-to/1402 "2025-09-24T12:25:05Z")
The Situation You are running a study with one survey and one other activity: Baseline Survey (collected once at the beginning) Daily Diary Questionnaire (collected every evening) You want participants to complete the… --- ## [Force Criteria to Use Only the Answers from the Current Session](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/force-criteria-to-use-only-the-answers-from-the-current-session/1367)
**Author:** [@somayeh](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/somayeh)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [July 30, 2025, 9:53am UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/force-criteria-to-use-only-the-answers-from-the-current-session/1367 "2025-07-30T09:53:49Z")
In experience sampling or longitudinal studies, researchers often want to show or hide questions based on how a participant answered earlier in the same session. By default, however, Avicenna looks at all corresponding s… --- ## [Randomize Participants for Multi-Arm Studies](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/randomize-participants-for-multi-arm-studies/1196)
**Author:** [@zahra](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/zahra)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/randomize-participants-for-multi-arm-studies/1196 "2025-06-10T17:31:00Z")
Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are crucial in clinical research. This guide shows two ways to randomly assign participants to different study arms or groups within Avicenna, even though it’s not a built-in feature y… --- ## [Define Participant Variables](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/define-participant-variables/1197)
**Author:** [@zahra](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/zahra)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/define-participant-variables/1197 "2025-06-10T16:30:00Z")
This guide explains how to assign custom data, or variables, to individual participants in your Avicenna study. The Situation You need to store specific information for each participant that isn’t collected through regu… --- ## [Enroll Participants Without Asking for any Personally Identifiable Information](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/enroll-participants-without-asking-for-any-personally-identifiable-information/1198)
**Author:** [@zahra](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/zahra)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/enroll-participants-without-asking-for-any-personally-identifiable-information/1198 "2025-06-10T16:01:00Z")
When enrolling a new participant in your Avicenna Study, they are required to sign up for an account by providing the following information: First name Last name Email address Password The first two (names) are option… --- ## [Schedule Sessions with Customized Timing for Each Participant](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/schedule-sessions-with-customized-timing-for-each-participant/1199)
**Author:** [@zahra](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/zahra)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/schedule-sessions-with-customized-timing-for-each-participant/1199 "2025-06-10T15:55:00Z")
While Avicenna’s triggering logics cover most use cases, you may want to prompt surveys on personalized schedules that require a more flexible approach. For complete flexibility, we offer the following options: Release… --- ## [Add an "Other" Option to Single Answer or Multiple Answer Questions](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/add-an-other-option-to-single-answer-or-multiple-answer-questions/1201)
**Author:** [@zahra](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/zahra)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 3:25pm UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/add-an-other-option-to-single-answer-or-multiple-answer-questions/1201 "2025-06-10T15:25:00Z")
When creating a survey with Single Answer or Multiple Answer questions, it might be important to allow the participants the flexibility to enter their own answer if it’s not provided as an option. To achieve this, you c… --- ## [Create a Baseline Survey in Avicenna](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/create-a-baseline-survey-in-avicenna/1202)
**Author:** [@zahra](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/zahra)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 2:25pm UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/create-a-baseline-survey-in-avicenna/1202 "2025-06-10T14:25:00Z")
Executing a long-term study that keeps participants engaged requires thoughtful planning. This involves providing incentives, having clear onboarding processes, and offering flexible adherence routines to participants. U… --- ## [Monitor Participants' Past Compliance and Upcoming Survey Schedule](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/monitor-participants-past-compliance-and-upcoming-survey-schedule/1210)
**Author:** [@zahra](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/zahra)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 4:49am UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/monitor-participants-past-compliance-and-upcoming-survey-schedule/1210 "2025-06-10T04:49:56Z")
In this article, we demonstrate how you can use Avicenna to monitor your participants’ compliance rate for the past activities, and the schedule of the upcoming ones. Checking this report regularly is very important whil… --- ## [Enable Triggering Logic Only for One Participant](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/enable-triggering-logic-only-for-one-participant/1209)
**Author:** [@zahra](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/zahra)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 4:49am UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/enable-triggering-logic-only-for-one-participant/1209 "2025-06-10T04:49:49Z")
Assume you have a survey in your study, Survey A, with one triggering logic. Your study also has 10 participants. You want the triggering logic to be enabled for Participant number 2 and be disabled for all other 9 parti… --- ## [A Richer VAS Question: How to Use Images as Labels](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/a-richer-vas-question-how-to-use-images-as-labels/1208)
**Author:** [@zahra](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/zahra)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 4:49am UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/a-richer-vas-question-how-to-use-images-as-labels/1208 "2025-06-10T04:49:41Z")
Visual analogue scales (VAS) are measurement instruments represented as sliders designed to facilitate assessing characteristics or attributes that cannot be measured directly. They are primarily used to describe the int… --- ## [Edit Surveys During the Study](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/edit-surveys-during-the-study/1207)
**Author:** [@zahra](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/zahra)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 4:49am UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/edit-surveys-during-the-study/1207 "2025-06-10T04:49:36Z")
Sometimes, you might need to make a few changes to your already set-up surveys. Imagine your survey configurations are done, participants are recruited, and study is in progress, and you realize that you’ve made a mistak… --- ## [Create a One Time Optional Survey](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/create-a-one-time-optional-survey/1206)
**Author:** [@zahra](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/zahra)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 4:49am UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/create-a-one-time-optional-survey/1206 "2025-06-10T04:49:27Z")
With a flexible research tool like Avicenna, you have many ways of prompting surveys to participants. By employing User Triggering Logics and setting the right criteria, you can create a survey that is always accessible … --- ## [Set Reminders Based on Participants' Preferences](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/set-reminders-based-on-participants-preferences/1205)
**Author:** [@zahra](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/zahra)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 4:49am UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/set-reminders-based-on-participants-preferences/1205 "2025-06-10T04:49:22Z")
Sending reminders can significantly improve participant compliance in longitudinal, real-world studies. Allowing participants to choose how often they receive these reminders respects their preferences and can further bo… --- ## [Personalized Surveys in Avicenna](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/personalized-surveys-in-avicenna/1204)
**Author:** [@zahra](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/zahra)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 4:49am UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/personalized-surveys-in-avicenna/1204 "2025-06-10T04:49:15Z")
By using Criteria and Triggering Logics, you can design personalized surveys where each participant receives different surveys, schedules, or questions based on their responses. This guide shows you how to set up a perso… --- ## [Prompt a Survey More Than Once a Day](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/prompt-a-survey-more-than-once-a-day/1203)
**Author:** [@zahra](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/u/zahra)\ **Replies:** 0\ **Last updated:** [June 10, 2025, 4:49am UTC](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/t/prompt-a-survey-more-than-once-a-day/1203 "2025-06-10T04:49:07Z")
For some studies, you might want to notify the participants to take a survey, or complete a cognitive task, more than once a day. In such cases, you should use multiple Time Triggering Logics (or Time TL, for short). For… [Next page](https://forum.avicennaresearch.com/c/how-to/15.md?page=1)