Prepare a Report

In a Study, as an owner you can create one or more Reports. A Report can be a Google Doc, Sheet, or Slide or a Microsoft Doc or PowerPoint and is backed by Google Workspace technology. 

All owners will have full "writer" access to the Google Workspace document. Regular study users may similarly have full "writer" access, "commenter" access - meaning they can comment on docs but cannot alter it, or read-only "reader" access. 

If you wish to alter a user's access level to a document or manage users otherwise, please use the Study UI to ensure all Study users have complete visibility into who is participating in the research study.  

Note that you can also share a report to non HISE users, for instance if you have external contributors to a manuscript for publication. External contributors will not use the HISE UI but will be using the native Google Workspace UI for documents instead.

Create

As an owner of a Study, you can create one or more Reports. A Report can be a Google Doc, Sheet, or Slide, or a PowerPoint. For more information on Reports, please refer to the Support page on Reports. 

To create a Report, click the “Create new report” button on the top right of the page. This will bring up an overlaying window that prompts you to specify a Report title, Authors, a Summary, and the Document type. Fill out the required information, and click "Submit" when ready.

A new entry should appear once the Report is created. To make edits to the new Report, click the icon on the bottom right of the new entry card. Reports are backed by Google Workspace technology, so editing Reports should be easy if you are already familiar with Google Workspace.

Share with External Collaborators

Unlike Studies, which you can only share with HISE users who have access to the same Project, you are able to share Reports with any collaborator. The collaborator does not have to be a HISE user. The only requirement is that they have a Google account so that they can access any Google documents that were created. 

To share a Report with an external contributor, you can either insert the person’s email under the “External contributors” field, or you can create the Report first, then navigate to the Report and select the "Edit" icon. A prompt will pop up where you can fill in the email of the person you want to share the report with.