Administrator Functions
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Timeline Instructions
To find out who the respondents’ caregivers were during their first 18 years of life, they fill out a timeline. Creating a Living Arrangement The first step is to choose the place where you lived right after you were born. This is usually a house or an apartment, but it might be an institution. Click…
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Preparing to Give Assessments on a Session Manager MIDSA
To give assessments on computers other than the one that has the Administrator MIDSA, the Administrator must create a file with authorizations for both Session Managers and respondents. The Session Managers will then import this information into the Session Manager MIDSA before they give an assessment. NOTE: If the assessment is to be taken in…
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View or Modify Information About a Session Manager
Select View Session Manager List from the workspace or Edit/View History in the Session Manager menu. This assistant has four functions: View, Edit, Change Password, and Change Status. To use any of the functions, highlight (mouse click) the desired Session Manager from the list on the left. The buttons in the middle column will become…
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Adding Session Managers
In addition to setting up respondents, Administrators must set up Session Managers and export authorization information (.auth file). The Administrator decides who may give assessments and chooses usernames and passwords for them. This only needs to be done once for each Session Manager unless you wish to change the Session Managers’ passwords or their status…
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Backing Up MIDSA
Computers will crash and it is important to back up your MIDSA data frequently. You need to be concerned about saving respondents’ responses, reports and the Administrator’s historical information (Session Managers, respondents, and assessment versions). Backing up Reports When you receive reports from MIDSA Central, they will be saved to the folder of your choice…
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Importing Completed Assessment: Administrators Only
You will need the Completed Assessments file that the Session Manager created when the respondent finished the assessment. It has the name Completed Assessments followed by the date and time (and some additional numbers). The extension of the file is .zip and it was placed in the Completed Assessments folder (which is in the MIDSA…
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Export a Completed Assessment
NOTES: Your respondent may not be in the default list, which are reports for which MIDSA has NOT created a report. Go to the top of the window, click on the drop-down menu and choose “Received Reports.” The respondent may be in that list. If your list of respondents is long, you may use the…
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Requesting a Report
Choose Request Report from the workspace or select Request Report from the Report submenu in the Respondent menu. MIDSA displays a table that lists all respondents with a completed assessment but no report. Click on the checkbox next to the respondent(s) for whom you want a report, then click the Get Report button at the…
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The following error message appears: “The archive cannot be accepted because it contains invalid data.”
First, check that it is a Completed Assessments.zip and not an authorization file (.auth). If it is the former, email the Completed Assessments file as an attachment to midsa@midsa.us. In your email message, describe the events leading up to the error (what you did, any unusual events such as lights flashing). MIDSA support will create…
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A Respondent Does Not Appear in the Respondent list or the Request Report Assistant Will Not Open (it is grayed out)
This may be caused by any of the following: To address these three issues: Then, highlight the respondent of choice, choose the Edit button and click on the radio button next to Active. Finally, choose the Active filter from the drop-down list at the top of the page. If none of these actions work, contact…