Mass deployment of PsychoPy Studio 2026.1.1

Hi,

Is there a recommended way for the mass / managed deployment of PsychoPy Studio?

I am working at University and one of academics asked if it could be deployed in classrooms for teaching?

The main issue that I see at this moment, is that when PsychoPy Studio launches for the first time it installs Python and Libraries into user’s AppData - not ideal for desktop PCs which are used by tens (or hundreds) of students.

Is there a way to make PsychoPy Studio to install for all users, with Python and Libraries installed for all users too?

Many thanks

Daniel

Hi there,

Yes, that’s correct. For most users this is ideal but I can see what you’re saying.

The folder the python installations get saved to is %appdata%/roaming/psychopy4/.python Now I thought that, in a managed, networked installation like yours, that folder isn’t actually stored on the local machine, but on a roaming profile (i.e. a network disk that gets mounted during log in). Is that not the case?

Either way, I can imagine a few solutions like

  • we could release a different version of Studio for the classroom-install use-case
  • we could stick to one installer but add a preference/setting for “where is the python folder” (but then how would sys admin set that to default to prog files across all machines if it’s a pref in user folder)

I think it would be good to chat about this on a call. I’ll email you to set up a time

thanks,
Jon