Research Portal Improvements

1) Side by side video and questionnaire.  Reviewers through North America definitely want the ability to watch videos and do questionnaires side by side.  Some groups have already started using SurveyMonkey or GoogleDocs to host the surveys so they can watch the videos and do the surveys at the same time: 

Answer: check code:

http://localhost/research/projects/review_survey.php?mid=1&rid=103&sid=74&iid=132

Project: 500 test

2) Import Reviewers.  Currently, reviewers for research project needs to be added one by one.  If a user already has Research Portal membership, they still need to be added from the research membership into the research project.  After working with customers for several years, they would really like the ability to import users via CSV directly into a project.  Note: some reviewers might be reviewers in several projects.  

Answer: This will add burden of the user member database. CSV file is needed in right format. Need to think more.

3) Import tests for subjects and reviewers.  Currently each question needs to be type one by one or cut and past one by one.  It would be a lot better for CESEI admin and for Research Portal customers if we can import tests via CSV in the same way as the education portal.

Answer: This was already  done. Under test schedule, Add New Questions, upload questions tab.

4) Import Custom Study Codes.  Currently, if there are 500 subjects, and if there are unique study code chosen by the Principal Investigator for each subject, then each study code needs to be manually assigned.  Import through CSV would save a lot of time.

Answer: This was already done.  Under upload data, click subject information.

5) Cloning/copying projects. 

Answer: done, still verifying.

Customer Complaints

1.  The most frequently heard customer complaint was the load times in a research project, regardless if videos were involved or not.  We already tried reducing the bit rate and the total size of each video, and although this helps in reducing the time to stream and playback videos, it doesn’t affect the slow load times in other areas of the research portal.

Answer: OK