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Review key features and terminology, data preparation tips, create a project and import data.
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Review key features and terminology, data preparation tips, create a project and import data.
The Learning Center is our most comprehensive resource built to help you learn everything you need to know about Dedoose.
The Learning Center is our most comprehensive resource built to help you learn everything you need to know about Dedoose.
Supporting the Dedoose user is critical to our mission—satisfied users who are getting the best out of Dedoose. Below are the most frequently asked questions we receive specific to the app.
Dedoose supports MSAA (Microsoft Active Accessibility) for screen readers. Any MSAA compatible screen readers will work with the application.
Yes! Because Dedoose is cloud-based, the Desktop App requires an internet connection to connect to your project data.
Users on an account can be deactivated with the following steps:
This will prevent them from logging in, keep them tied to your account, and will prevent any charges for them from being triggered on your account.
If you are an individual or group account, there are additional costs for the storage of audio and/or video data. Audio is $0.05 for every hour of audio exceeding the free 1 hour and video data is $0.25 for every hour exceeding the first free 30 minutes of video data.
You can edit a docx file with the following steps:
To reset your password, make sure that you have access to the email account linked to your Dedoose account. If you do not, please contact our support team at support@dedoose.com for help resetting the password.
If you enter your email address, make sure that it is the one linked to your Dedoose account. If not, the system will not register that you have an account. You will then receive an email with a new randomly generated password to log in with.
You can import a project with the following steps:
When viewing a document, there is an ‘Edit Media’ icon in the header (it looks like a cog or snowflake). Click this button to open an 'Edit Document' panel. Here you can modify the document title or description and click 'Submit' to save. Or, you can delete the document by clicking the 'Delete Document' button in the lower left corner of the panel.
Yes. When importing descriptors to Dedoose, a validation check review screen is presented before you can submit the data to the system. If data are missing, there will be a warning in the error section that identifies any missing data as 'Not a valid option.' Regardless of any errors, the data can still be imported by clicking 'Submit.'
You can import text, audio, and video files into Dedoose. Here are the different formats accepted. If your files have a different format that is not currently supported, converting them to a supported format will allow for import.
You can export a project with the following steps:
Yes, every Dedoose plan comes with real-time collaboration included. You can collaborate with any other Dedoose user in the world by navigating to the project of your choice, clicking on the "Access" workspace, and then inputting their Dedoose account email address. After they accept the invitation, you will be able to work on the exact same project and see each other's work. You can also place people in different Access Groups if you'd like to limit certain functions or areas of the project from an individual.
Dedoose offers dozens of pre-built data visualizations via the Analyze workspace. You can view your qualitative coding and themes in relation to demographic or quantitative data, explore code relationships and co-occurrences, run quantitative analyses such as ANOVA and T-Tests, and build your own interactive charts to dig into your data and build your findings.
Yes! Dedoose operates seamlessly between Mac, PC, and Linux operating systems. Unlike traditional software, you can download Dedoose on multiple computers to access your data and projects.
Dedoose allows you to integrate and connect your qualitative data with any associated quantitative, demographic, and/or categorical data in your study. You can choose to perform quantitative analysis on your quantitative portion of your dataset via the Analyze workspace, as well as visualize the connections between your qualitative themes. For more on quantitative features, check out this webinar.
We believe your data are your data and therefore should be easily accessible to you outside of Dedoose. You can export nearly anything in Dedoose to both Excel and Word document format (e.g, a coded interview, coded excerpts, etc.). There are also options to export the entire project via QDPX in the event you wanted to switch to a different software.
A number of predefined user Access Groups are available to project creators so they can control levels of access to the project data. To use them, the project creator goes to the Access workspace of the project, chooses the Access Group they would like to add, and then selects "Add User" to choose which Access Group you want them in. Each user invited to a project can be moved into a different group at any time by the project creator.
All additions take place in the Access workspace of a designated project. When attempting to add a user, the system will prompt you for an email address.
