Locked Timezone for In-Person Studies

For in-person studies, you'll probably want to disable automatic time zone detection for respondents. This will ensure nobody who is traveling or using a VPN will get an invite with a different timezone. You can do that from an option inside the scheduling question. This forces all respondents to view and select times in the timezone where you're doing your in-person study.

Step 1: Verify timezone

Head to account >> profile and make sure your timezone, as the owner of the screener, is set to the time zone of your in-person study. If you are not the owner of the screener, your timezone will not be reflected in the scheduling times for respondents. This is really important for in-person studies where you are locking the timezone, because you may not have noticed who the screener owner was in other workflows in Ethnio.

Step 2: Lock the timezone

In screeners >> questions, open your scheduling question and scroll down to options. Then flip this toggle to "Yes"

Step 3: Check language

Head over to scheduling >> settings and check #4 to make sure you like the language. Respondents will only see this when timezone is locked.

How the participant see the times

Regardless of the country and timezone of your participants, as they view your scheduling times, they will only see it your timezone (as the researchers / Ethnio user). So instead of a dropdown where their location and timezone are automatically detected, they will see this: