Training Process

Number of participants

The training generally works best with 8 or fewer participants. With more participants the training can be slow due to the inevitable diversity within the group.

How the training is conducted

The training is conducted via a web meeting. It has an interactive learning-by-doing structure. There are no slides or lectures.

The instructor walks you through the basics of using Displayr, giving you various tasks along the way to check your understanding of how the software works and key concepts. During the training one of your team's screens is shared with the rest of the training participants, including the instructor, which allows the instructor and other participants to verify that everything is being understood; if you have multiple people in a room, it can be useful to have a projector sharing the screen.

Process for setting up a training session

The process for setting up and running a training session is:

1. Sign into Displayr.
2. Send your Sales or Customer Success contact:
   • A data file for use in training. Ideally, you do this a week before the training, so that there is an opportunity to rectify any problems with the data. In general, it is best to have an SPSS .sav file (see What data file formats does Displayr support? for more information); you do not need to be an SPSS user to get these files - it is a standard file format that can be exported by most data collection platforms. Note that the Terms of Use that is enacted when using the software is contains confidentiality agreements protecting your data.
   • Some details about the background of the participants. In particular:
     1. The number of years working in market research.
     2. What software packages, if any, they currently use for data analysis.
   • A list of any specific content you wish to address in the training, which we will try to incorporate if it is practical to do so.
   • If you will have people joining the meeting from multiple countries, you indicate which countries so that we can set up dial in numbers (it is also possible to log in via your computer, if you have a headset and microphone).
3. We send you a meeting invite that includes details for logging in to the web meeting.
4. We review the data file and create a plan for the training.
5. You ensure that all people attending the training:
   • Have signed up to a Displayr trial and haven't used up all their free hours (get in contact before if they have and we will add some more time).
   • Have access to a computer with the internet during the training. The training is structured around a learning-by-doing approach. The training works equally well with people at a central location, or, each sitting at their own desk.
   • Have tested their audio (a group of people sharing a computer and using the computer's microphone and speakers rarely works well).