An activity is a set of questions or exercises, which we call tasks. On the platform, activities appear as Assignments. Learn more in What is an activity?.

To create an activity, you need an Administrator or Moderator access.

INDEX

• Opening the form
• Cover image and title
• Available time
• Segments
• Visibility of responses
• Sequence tasks
• Logic and conditions
• Chained activities
• Finishing

Opening the form

In the side menu, click Assignments and then + Assignment.

The Create Assignment window brings together all the settings.

Cover image and title

Under Cover image, click to upload or drag an image (JPG, JPEG, PNG, WEBP or SVG; recommended size 400 × 125 px). Then type the Assignment Title, up to 30 characters.

Use a different name for each activity. This makes community filters and exports easier.

Available time

Set the Start Date (when the activity becomes available to participants) and the Finish date (when it stops being available). Click the calendar icon to pick the day and time.

Dates work as a schedule: the activity is activated automatically on the start date and deactivated on the finish date. You can change the dates whenever you need.

Times follow the time zone set when the community was created. If you are in a different time zone, take the difference into account when scheduling activities.

Tip: participants often join the study after it starts. If the finish date is the last day of the community, late joiners will still have access to activities that have already started.

Segments

Under Segments, choose who can see and answer the activity. It is available to anyone who belongs to any of the selected segments. For example, selecting Women and 18 to 25 years old shows the activity to all women, of any age, and to everyone aged 18 to 25, of any gender.

To open the activity to all participants, check All. When you check every segment, All is checked automatically.

If you need a more specific group, such as women aged 18 to 25, create a segment for it. See Segmentation.

Visibility of responses

Choose how participants see each other's answers:

• All responses will be visible immediately to the responder: participants see other people's answers at any time.
• The respondent can see all the replies after completing the assignment: other answers only show up after they finish the activity.
• The respondent cannot see any answers from other participants: answers stay hidden between participants.

Sequence tasks

With Sequence tasks on, participants answer the tasks in the order they appear and only see the next one after completing the current one.

With the option off, participants can move between tasks and choose the order. All tasks are still mandatory for the activity to be complete.

Logic and conditions

In sequenced activities, turn on Logic and conditions to send participants to different tasks based on their answers. For example: those who say they drink soda go on to soda questions; those who say they don't go to questions about other drinks or finish the activity. See the step-by-step in Logic and Conditions.

Chained activities

Use Chained to release the activity only after the participant completes other activities. Select in the list the activities that must be completed first.

Chaining works like a chain. For example, the first activity, Welcome, does not need chaining. The second activity should have Welcome selected under Chained, so it only becomes available after the participant completes the first one. If the activity depends on two or more activities, select all of them.

If you change the segments of an activity that already has answers, you may lose data linked to the removed segment. Changing the chaining may also make you lose answers.

Finishing

Review the settings and click Create. To give up, click Cancel.