As part of your course requirement, students enrolled in marketing classes are expected to earn research
credit. This can be done by participating in research experiments (procedure described below) or
completing research assignments that will be available from the Marketing Department Webpage
(Normally speaking, it is available 1 week before the last day of this term classes).
Note: The maximum that each student is required to do is 4 experiments/assignments. Thus, if you are
enrolled in three marketing courses, you do NOT have to do 6 experiments or 6 assignments.
IMPORTANT NOTE
To login to markexpt, use your ITSC login name.
If you have forgotten your password, please read point 1.1 below.
This handout gives you information about how to sign up for experiments.
If you are a new markexpt user, an account will be created for you once the add/drop period is over.
You will be assigned a login name (user ID) and a default password.
You will receive this account information by email. The email will come from the administrators
email address (markexpt@ust.hk), so be sure to configure your junk mail filters to allow email from
that address.
When you receive this email, go to the following URL: https://usthk-markexpt.sona-systems.com
and login using the login name and default password you have been given.
You will see a button on the front login page (on the right).
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1.2 Email Address
Email notification is sent to you when you sign up for studies, cancel studies and when you receive
credit. Your email address is also displayed to the researcher when they view who has signed up
for their study, in the event they need to contact you.
Studies that currently have available participation times (timeslots) will have TIMESLOTS
AVAILABLE listed on the left (next to the name of the study). If no studies have available timeslots,
you may want to logon to the system later to see if new timeslots or studies have been added.
You can also select a specific date and view studies that have available timeslots on that date (see
date option on top of screen shown in Figure 3).
To view more information about a study, click on the name of the study.
After you click Sign Up, you will see information displayed confirming the time and location of the
study you plan to participate in.
You will receive an email confirmation as well. You are now signed up for the study.
Reassigning Credits
If you belong to multiple courses, you may reassign a credit from one course to another. To do this,
simply use the Reassign link that appears when you view your progress. The link
appears under the course entry for each item in your progress listing.
2.3 My profile
Changing Your Password and Other Information (see Figure 8)
If you would like to change your password or other information about yourself, choose My Profile
from the top toolbar. If you would like to change your password, type your new password (twice,
for confirmation) in the provided boxes. If you would not like to change your password, simply
leave these boxes empty.
There is a list of FAQ posted here. It is highly recommend that you view this section before you send out
any enquiry to us.
3. Logging out
When you are done using the system, choose Log Out from the toolbar on the top right to log out.
You are now logged out. It is always a good security measure to close all your browser windows as
well, especially if you are using a computer that is shared by others.
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