Sign up for studies
Browse and book studies you qualify for, then track the credit you owe each course.
- Eligibility
- Prescreen checked at sign-up
- Appointments
- Pick a time slot for lab studies
- Waitlists
- Get promoted when a seat opens
Research participant recruitment
Find the right people for research.
Researchers submit surveys or lab studies for review. The administrator decides what runs and when. Students book the studies they qualify for and their credit is recorded against the right course.
Walkthrough
A run through the platform
Recorded in the app: a student browsing studies, booking a lab slot, and checking credit; a researcher submitting a study and managing time slots; and the administrator reviewing, overriding study type, and exporting records.
Submit a study
Send in the details, criteria, dates and participant count. The admin reviews and sets fielding.
- Survey or lab
- Choose the study type
- Slots
- Add times for in-person sessions
- Rosters
- Export participation to CSV
Run the pool
Provision accounts, review submissions, manage fielding windows, and keep the term record.
- Invite-only
- Upload members by CSV
- Overrides
- Switch study type if needed
- Gradebook
- Export credits to Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, Sakai
How a study reaches students
Submissions are marked as survey or lab. Admins can override the type during review.
- 1
Submitted
Researcher marks it as a survey or a lab study with appointments.
- 2
Reviewed
The administrator approves, rejects, or asks for changes with a note.
- 3
Fielded
The window opens. Surveys show a link; lab studies show bookable slots.
- 4
Credited
Completion code, researcher confirmation, or attended slot closes it out.
Setting up a pool
Access is invite-only. The administrator uploads members by CSV so courses and requirements are in place before anyone signs in.
- —Upload students, researchers, and courses by CSV
- —Review submissions and override study type when needed
- —Export credits straight to Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, or Sakai gradebooks
About
Built from years in the field
I started out running surveys in academia and never really stopped. I have a PhD in political science and survey methodology, and I have spent years designing, fielding, and cleaning survey research. I worked first as a researcher, then as an administrator running the full pipeline.
Most recently, I ran a subject pool at an R1 university. I liked the work, but the software side was a mess. We tracked who qualified for which study, who still needed credit, and whether a researcher had confirmed participation across spreadsheets, email threads, and a learning management system that was not built for this. Students missed studies they were right for. Researchers got stuck in back-and-forth emails. As the pool grew, the manual work piled up.
Recruit is what I wish I had back then. It puts the right studies in front of the right students, gives researchers a clear way to submit and manage their work, and gives administrators the controls and exports they need to run the pool without drowning in busywork.
Questions? Contact Tyler Steelman, PhD at tsteelman91@gmail.com.