Product Updates

What’s new: Custom screening, enhanced account security, and more

George Denison
|October 10, 2024

Welcome to our latest product update! Read on to discover what’s new at Prolific, including updates on custom screening, multi-factor authentication, exciting new partnerships, and more.

Custom screening is now widely available

Custom screening is now available to all Prolific users.

We offer hundreds of prescreening filters that help you recruit the participants you need. But if you have niche or specific criteria, custom screening lets you add your own in-study screening questions, using branching logic in your survey tool.

With custom screening, you can now:

  • Define more precise study-specific screening criteria.
  • Automate participant submissions and screening.
  • Speed up your research by collecting more relevant data.

You can read more about how to add custom screening questions or check out all available prescreening filters in our help center.

Multi-factor authentication for better security

Your account’s security is paramount to us. We’re enhancing it further by introducing multi-factor authentication (MFA), replacing our previous email 2-factor authentication (2FA).

MFA adds an extra layer of security to your account by requiring two or more verification factors to sign in to an account, protecting your account from unauthorized access. When you use MFA on Prolific, you will have access to:

  • Time-based one-time passwords (TOTP) generated by an authenticator app.
  • Account recovery codes to regain access to your account in case you lose access to your TOTP device.

Learn how to set up MFA on your Prolific account.

A brand new ‘Home’

We've revamped your Home page in the Prolific app to provide a more intuitive and engaging user experience. The new design focuses on simpler navigation and a cleaner look that makes it easier to navigate to your tools and helpful resources!

Partner announcements

We’re excited to share three recent partnerships that will help simplify your workflows. Expect enhanced support for integrations and a lot of time saved as you scale your projects more efficiently.

AILYZE

AILYZE is an AI tool for qualitative data collection and analysis. With AILYZE, you can now:

  • Collect data using online surveys and AI voice interviews conducted in respondents' native languages.
  • Analyze data by uploading documents like interview transcripts and survey responses to get content analysis, thematic breakdowns, and more.

Learn more about AILYZE.

Centaur Labs

Centaur Labs helps AI developers build, monitor, and validate models by annotating medical and scientific data. The secure, HIPAA compliant platform supports annotation of multiple data types, including text, 2D/3D imaging, video, audio, and waveform.

Learn more about Centaur Labs.

FindingFive

FindingFive makes online behavioral research easier. This online research platform simplifies setting up online experiment - so you can focus on the science.

Learn more about FindingFive.