Documentation
Guides for running studies on Open Lab. If you cannot find what you need, support is a real person.
Start here
- Getting started — From account to first study.
- FAQ — The questions support answers most often.
- Participant guide — What taking part looks like — shareable with your participants.
Study setup
- Study management — Create, duplicate, archive.
- Study builder — Components, flow, branching.
- Invitation management — Study links, invitations, tracking links, QR codes.
- Participant management — Enrolment, completion codes, participant records.
- Settings — Per-study configuration.
Tasks and recruitment
- lab.js integration — Build tasks in lab.js and run them here.
- Recruitment integrations — Sona, Prolific, CloudResearch, MTurk, lab recruitment systems.
Data
- Data analysis — Explore and export your data.
- Data reports — Summaries and reports.
- Data quality — Screening, bot detection, exclusions.
Collaboration
- Projects — Group studies and share access.
- Collaborators — Roles and permissions.
- Teaching — Lecture demonstrations and courses on the Team plan.
Concepts
- All concepts — How the platform is put together.
- Study lifecycle — Draft to archived.
- Enrolment modes — Who can take part, and how.
- lab.js bridge — Tasks, versions, reuse.
- Data journey — Where responses go.
- Encryption — What is encrypted, and for whom.
- Payments — Paying participants.
- Roles — Who can do what.
- Public profile — Your researcher page.