Recruitment via Prolific

The following assumes that you are familiar with how to operate experiments with Prolific.

Go to the Prolific website and create a new experiment. Make a note of the completion URL that is provided by Prolific.

Enter the completion URL in the field prolificURL when creating your experiment, as follows:

 magpieInit({
        ...
        deploy: {
            deployMethod: "Prolific",
            prolificURL: "https://app.prolific.ac/submissions/complete?cc=SAMPLE1234"
        }
        ...
    });

Use deploy method Prolific has two consequences. For one, it will insert a text input field in the introduction view of your experiment. For another, it will supply a confirm button at the end of the experiment, which takes participants to the Prolific website where they are supplied with their completion code.

The data from your experiment will not be stored by Prolific, but recorded by the _magpie server app. Before launching the study on Prolific, double-check that the database on the back end is set up and the necessary information (experimentID, server URL) are set. Also do not forget to update a web-site version of your experiment so that it includes the correct information in prolificURL before running the study.