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Onboarding

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Getting Started

Everyone

  1. Complete the Onboarding Survey to provide the lab your contact information and UCF identifcation numbers.
  2. Complete CITI training modules in order of priority:
    1. Group 2. Social/Behavioral
    2. Group 1. Biomedical Research Investigators and Key Personnel
      • When finished, export your completion certificates and send them to the lab manager(s).
  3. Request a Sona researcher account:
  4. Request a Qualtrics access upgrade:
    1. Should receive an “upgrade code” through UCF email within 24 hours
    2. If you do NOT receive that code, reach out to UCF IT
    3. Once you have the code, log into the Qualtrics account
    4. On the top right, click on the profile bubble (ex. an empty photo) and click on “account settings”
    5. Toggle the tabs to click on “upgrade account”
    6. Enter the “upgrade code into the text box” and click submit
    7. Log out and back in
  5. Ensure the lab manager(s) grant/request your access to:
    1. Lab Computers (the lab manager needs to email IT about the computers in PSYCH 203C, 303H, and R1 350C)
    2. All relevant IRB studies
    3. Google Drive
    4. Google Calendars
    5. Research Drive
    6. GitHub organization
    7. LLRN database

Undergraduate Students

All of the above, plus:

  1. Schedule your weekly hours.
    • Undergraduate volunteers are expected to be in the lab for a minimum of 10 hours per week. We can be flexible with respect to changes to your class and work schedule, but we do prefer to maintain 2-3 regular weekly 3-5 hour shifts.
  2. Request Psychology door access:
    • Supervisor: “Nichole Lighthall”
    • Request: 303 suite only
    • No General Building Access
  3. Request Research I building access and 350 suite access
    • request via Lab Manager
  4. Volunteer documentation

We are required to document our volunteers every semester. For undergraduate students, the preferred method is to enroll you in PSY 4912 Directed Independent Research.

PSY 4912 is a course which appears on your transcript, for 0-3 credit hours, per your preference. For the most part, you should take 0 credits. This will not impact your tuition bill, so long as you are taking other classes. If you are not taking other classes, such as during a summer semester, you will incur enrollment fees and you should not take PSY 4912.

If you are interested in taking credit hours for your time working in the lab, you should discuss this with the lab manager(s) and with Nichole to determine what expectations there will be for your output over the semester. You should also be aware that you will incur the normal credit hour costs for doing so. This option is only recommended for students who need to fill credit hours for degree or financial aid purposes, and have a project in mind to work on consistently throughout the semester.

The other option for documenting our volunteers is with the university’s Volunteer Agreement Forms. During Summer semesters, any undergraduates working in the lab should be documented this way.

  1. Read the Responsibilities page for undergraduates linked here

Graduate Students

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  1. All of the above
  2. Request Psychology door access:
    • Supervisor: “Nichole Lighthall”
    • Request: 303 suite only
    • General Building Access (only if you intend to work odd hours in-lab)
  3. Program procedures, people to reach out to, Table of Contacts, etc.,

Lab Staff

  1. All of the above, plus:
  2. Scheduling your weekly hours.
  3. Request Psychology door access:
    • Supervisor: “Nichole Lighthall”
    • Request: 303 suite only
    • General Building Access

Postdocs

  1. Request Psychology door access:
    • Supervisor: “Nichole Lighthall”
    • Request: 303 suite only
    • General Building Access

Key Information

Key Information for Everyone

Key Information for Undergraduate Students

Key Information for Graduate Students

Key Information for Lab Staff

Key Information for Postdocs

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