Locked time zone 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 time zone. You can do that from an option inside the scheduling question. This forces all respondents to view and select times in the time zone where you're doing your in-person study.

Approach #1: Study plan > scheduling > lock time zone

Making sure you have scheduling enabled for your study in key elements, head to study plan > scheduling > lock time zone. Then you can select the time zone for this study. Please note if anyone else on your team changes this time zone, it will change for participants, so it's locked to the study. More about the layers of time zones in Ethnio here.

Approach #2: Editor > scheduling > lock time zone

In studies or screeners > questions, open your scheduling question and scroll down to options. Then flip this toggle on to lock the time zone. You can also select the time zone here:

Why is the calendar time zone locked?

You may notice the time zone is locked on the calendar and can't be changed, once a study time zone is locked. This is to ensure that even across multiple facilitators and members on your team, the time zone can't be changed for participants. You can still connect your calendar account (Outlook or Google Calendar) to see confirmed interview times in your own time zone.

Localize the language about locked time zone in scheduling (optional)

In your study, head to scheduling > settings and check to see if you need to edit the language for locked time zone. or if it's part of our translations and multiple language handling, you can view all the languages for this field in the central editor.

How the participant see the times

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