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Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Google Forms Integration with TurkPrime

Google Forms can be used to deliver a study with TurkPrime in a similar manner to other survey platforms (like Qualtrics and SurveyMonkey).

In Google Forms set up your survey and then set up the secret completion code display:
1. Click on Settings (the gear icon)
2. Click on Presentation
2. Change the confirmation message to include "Your secret completion code is ABCDEF". (Of course, replace ABCDEF with your own code)

Then get the Google Form link 
1. Click on SEND
2. Click on the Chain / Link Icon
3. Click Copy (or just copy the URL)

On TurkPrime you can then select your panel if desired, add the  Google Forms survey  link URL and in the Tab (How workers are paid) enter the fixed secret completion code.  (e.g. ABCDEF)  

Friday, May 8, 2015

Qualtrics (and other platforms) Mechanical Turk Integration With TurkPrime

Run Qualtrics Surveys on MTurk using TurkPrime

Running Qualtrics surveys on TurkPrime streamlines two major pain-points that Requesters have dealt with:

  1. Dynamic secret key that Workers must enter to verify completion of the survey where the code is unique per user and, therefore, un-shareable.
  2. Auto approval and rejection of worker assignments based on the dynamic secret key
  3. Passing the Mechanical Turk WorkerId and AssignmentId into Qualtrics so that Workers can be uniquely identified and matched up with MTurk.
The following describes these basic features and how to use them.


The TurkPrime Design Survey Form is intuitive and similar to the MTurk Requester HIT Design form except that it adds many useful features like exclude Workers, target specific workers and much more. Below is a portion of the TurkPrime Design Survey form where you specify the Survey Hyperlink.


Qualtrics Surveys With Workers Specific Secret Keys on MTurk using TurkPrime

Now, you can also run Qualtrics surveys with TurkPrime Worker Specific Secret Keys. That means that each worker will be assigned a unique secret key to demonstrate that they completed the linked Qualtrics survey. There is no possibility that workers are sharing a secret key and not completing the linked survey.

Other Platform Integration


The Dynamic Secret Completion Code can be easily integrated (and has been by many researchers) into other non-Qualtrics systems, as well. TurkPrime calculates the Secret Code based on query string parameters that TurkPrime adds to the url of your survey. These parameters are named:
  • a
  • b
  • c

As long as your survey platform ensures that those query string values are preserved in the url when a participant reaches the last page of your survey that contains the TurkPrime iframe, then a completion code should get displayed. 

This can be achieved by capturing the parameters within your study. Nearly all platforms support this functionality. Please contact us if you have questions..