Timed questions on Pavlovia Survey

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Hi everyone,

Is there a way to set a timer in a question on Pavlovia survey?

As part of my research, I need participants to respond to an arithmetic fluency task. On Qualtrics, I created a block with text entry questions for each arithmetic problem and set a timer that move participants to next block after two minutes.

Thank you.

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Hi.

Yes, timers already work in Pavlovia surveys. You can set timer information on the survey settings and for each page. Here’s a demo:

https://run.pavlovia.org/pavlovia/survey/?surveyId=696568ac-f0d9-4be9-9ab3-a7581ffde800

On page 1 I put 20 in “Time limit to finish the page (in seconds)” and changed Navigation button visibility to Hidden.

For the overall survey I’ve put the timer location to Top and the Timer mode to Page.

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Hi,
It worked!
Thanks a million!
Cheers.

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Hello,

Do you know if there is a way to change the timer text from English to another one? I can’t find it.

Thanks in advance,

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how do I use it? cant seem to find in anywhere in pavlovia

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Hey Wake,
This is also exactly what I need! Could you share the .json? I’ve tried to find it under shared surveys but I was unsuccessful.

Thank you so much.

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I’ve just shared my Time Limit Demo survey.

Here’s the json

survey_696568ac-f0d9-4be9-9ab3-a7581ffde800.json (946 Bytes)

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Maybe I did something wrong but is the data from the Question " How much can you write in 20 seconds?" not saved? My aim is have my participants type as much as they recall from previous parts of the experiment and have time limit for that.

When I pilot the .json you just shared, I only get the data for the MC question.

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I think I fixed this by changing the “Data” filed of the question to “None” for “Clear the value if the question becomes hidden” and “While typing” for “Update text question value”. Does this make sense?

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Hmmm.

I now don’t know for certain if it used to work or not, but I have discovered that for the response to be saved you have to click away from the text box.

This isn’t ideal. I’ll raise a bug report, but you might want to consider using an editable textbox in PsychoPy for the timed response.

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