Upload an existing discussion guide
Drop a guide you already wrote into the Assistant and have Strella rebuild it as a question guide, question for question.
If your guide already exists as a document, you don't have to retype it. Drag the file into the Assistant and ask the Assistant to rebuild it. Strella reads the document question by question instead of summarizing it.
Steps
- Open the Assistant panel
In Build, the Assistant is the panel on the right. On mobile, tap the Assistant tab at the bottom.
- Drag your guide into the chat
Drop the file into the message box, or click the attach icon and pick it.
- Ask for it to be rebuilt
Say what you want, in your own words: "Rebuild this as my question guide" or "Turn this into the guide, keep my wording." The Assistant works through the document and the guide fills in beside it.
- Read it through
Edit the guide as you like. Check the places where your document did something a plain question can't say on its own, listed below.
What Strella keeps
A guide written for a human moderator holds more than a list of questions. Strella places each part in your question guide as follows:
| In your document | In your question guide |
|---|---|
| Each question | Its own step, in your wording and in your order |
| Sections with timings | Sections, in the same order |
| Probes listed under a question ("Potential prompts", "Probe on") | Follow-up guidance on that question, so the AI moderator probes the same way |
| Notes to the moderator ("Listen for: sweetness") | Kept out of what the participant is asked |
| A list of things to rate | One rating question per thing, each on a 1 to 10 scale |
| Answer options written beside a question | The options on that question, worded as you wrote them |
| A multiple-choice question with no options written down | An open question, so you're not left with an empty list to fill in |
Two questions on one line stay two questions. "Which felt appealing? Which felt unique?" becomes two steps, not one.
The Assistant reads Word documents (.docx), plain text, and Markdown this
way. It receives a PDF as-is, so it reads the PDF well but summarizes it more
freely than it converts it. For the closest match to your original, upload
the Word file.
Long guides
Strella rebuilds a guide of a hundred questions or more one section at a time. The guide takes longer to appear, and it arrives complete instead of thinning out toward the end.
Strella truncates very long documents before the Assistant reads them. If the end of your guide is missing, ask the Assistant for the sections that didn't come through, or split the document and upload it in two parts.
What to check afterwards
Read the finished guide top to bottom before you preview it. Check these three things:
- Question count. If your document had forty questions, the guide has about forty. A little more is normal, since one line asking two things becomes two steps.
- Rating scales. Confirm each one covers what you meant, and change the range if 1 to 10 isn't right for you.
- Anything your document implied rather than said. Instructions written for a human moderator ("show them the concept board here") may need you to add the stimulus yourself.