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Student can't open Jamovi

Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2020 3:25 pm
by mringenb
Hello

I am a university professor who teaches stats and research. I am interested in switching from using SPSS to Jamovi. I was going to make this transition anyway but now with everyone working at a distance it appears even more important.

I gave the students instructions for downloading Jamovi and we are just starting to create a database together (everyone with their own database on their computer but the same data). One student, however, has had trouble getting started. I "met" with her today and she showed me the stesp she took. It downloaded just fine and a file was visible among her other downloads on her g drive (google document sharing). But she was unable to open it. When she clicks on it, nothing happens. She also tried clicking and dragging it to the desktop. No success.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Matt

Re: Student can't open Jamovi

Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2020 5:56 pm
by decuser
Hey Matt, what doesn't work? When you say, she was unable to open 'it', what is it? the Jamovi installer, a Jamovi file, or something else?

Re: Student can't open Jamovi

Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2020 6:00 pm
by mringenb
Thanks,

The Jamovi program would not open. It appears to be installed.

Re: Student can't open Jamovi

Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2020 8:43 pm
by decuser
Mac or PC? If it's a Mac, try right clicking and selecting Open (Gatekeeper could be an issue). If it's a PC, good luck :)

Re: Student can't open Jamovi

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 12:22 am
by jonathon
hi @mringenb

if she's using a mac, see if the 1.2 series of jamovi works for her.

kind regards

Re: Student can't open Jamovi

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 12:28 am
by jonathon
if you really get stuck, i'm going to try making a web-based version of jamovi available in the next few days, which will work on any device (with a web-browser). to begin with i'd like a small pool of users, so if you've got the odd student having difficulties, they'd be perfect.

jonathon

Re: Student can't open Jamovi

Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 11:39 am
by pgtpg
jonathon wrote:if you really get stuck, i'm going to try making a web-based version of jamovi available in the next few days, which will work on any device (with a web-browser). to begin with i'd like a small pool of users, so if you've got the odd student having difficulties, they'd be perfect.
Hi,

I'm teaching stats at university too, with jamovi. A web-based version of jamovi would be very useful, specially for our students having those kind of issues.

Cheers,

Pierre-Guillaume

Re: Student can't open Jamovi

Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2020 11:46 am
by DeborahA
Hi Jonathan,

I am also having this issue with a student who is using Windows 7, and suspect it may be because it is a 32-bit Windows install. I would LOVE to have access to a web-based version if at all possible in the next week or so. I don’t think this student is capable enough to work with R and probably can’t afford SPSS.

Thanks!

Deborah.

Re: Student can't open Jamovi

Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2020 11:17 am
by jonathon
hi deborah,

drop us a line at contact <at> jamovi.org, and i'll see what i can do.

jonathon