March 31th, 2025 Powerful AI for your field trials ✨ You can now use the power of AI (Artificial Intelligence) to obtain additional insights on your trials, easily and effortlessly. QuickTrials has advanced AI that can be enabled for your organisation. Once enabled, users can ask Q (your personal AI assistant) questions about a trial in natural language and receive immediate insight. Here are [...]
February 25th, 2025 Redesigned staff assignment page 👥🌟 Dear Customers, We are happy to announce a redesigned staff assignment page to QuickTrials! We have listened to your feedback and worked to create a more user-friendly and efficient experience for you. The redesigned staff assignment page features a modern design, intuitive navigation, and several new features that make it easier for you to [...]
November 25th, 2024 QuickTrials November Update: The QuickTrials System There are two main types of reports depending on how you would like to view the information. Plan a trial (1/5) Planning a trial well significantly improves the chance of a successful trial. QuickTrials simplifies and automates a lot of the planning while helping users to define the type [...]
October 17th, 2024 QuickTrials October Update: Notifications & Reports Here are some recent updates to QuickTrials that we think you will enjoy! App Notifications Field Staff can now receive mobile app notifications on their phones whenever they are assigned to a new trial, and also the day before they have a site visit scheduled. This keeps field staff informed and makes [...]
July 22th, 2024 In our never ending quest to provide you with the best field trial software, for all types of trials, here are the enhancements and new features we’ve added to QuickTrials in the last two months! Faster mobile app performance Depending on how your trials are configured, you may have noticed the mobile App was slow in some [...]
May 14th, 2024 QuickTrials May Update: More languages + new features We continue to evolve QuickTrials and add new features that streamline how you plan and execute field trials. Here is a list of the new features that have been added in the last 2 months: More languages To ensure you can conduct trials wherever you need to, [...]
March 8th, 2024 New Features and Add-ons! We are continually enhancing QuickTrials and wanted to give you an update on the new features and add-ons that have been added in the last few months. New features New tutorials for the WebApp and Mobile App. Helps first-time users get up to speed with QuickTrials easily. The tutorial [...]
November 16th, 2023 November update We’ve been enhancing QuickTrials and wanted to mention some of the recent improvements that we think you’ll appreciate. Trial data overview enhancements We’ve improved the trial data overview screen that is used to inspect data captured in the field or enter observations on the WebApp. The overall design has been improved to show more data [...]
September 14th, 2023 Focus on trials layouts This newsletter highlights some of the recent changes that we’ve made to improve the randomization and generation of trial layouts. While QuickTrials has always had a lot of flexibility in placing plots, we received feedback from our customers requesting further enhancements. The features covered here represent the most requested enhancements and we plan to provide [...]
January 13th, 2023 New online user documentation Trials often have a central question that needs to be answered. It’s usually in the last step of the trial, the statistical analysis of the QuickTrials provides a lot of flexibility to handle different types of trials and various trialling setups. This flexibility is one of the things that makes QuickTrials so powerful, but it can [...]
October 19th, 2022 Statistical analysis of trial data Trials often have a central question that needs to be answered. It’s usually in the last step of the trial, the statistical analysis of the collected data, where answers to the question emerge. To help with this important step we’ve added some more statistical analysis capabilities to QuickTrials. In a new “Analysis” tab in [...]
We continue to enhance QuickTrials based on the great feedback we’re receiving from customers. The changes below are all about increasing efficiency and further improving the quality of trial data across an organisation. Library Trials The Traits Library provides a more automated and simplified way to design trials. Since adding this feature we received an overwhelmingly positive reaction to it [...]
Increased Flexibility A common problem with trials is that there are a number of datapoints that are not always known at the start of the trial. For example you may need to record specific details for each fruit that grows on a tree, without knowing how many fruits will actually grow. We handled this in the past with legacy observation groups where a user could check the box “Allow [...]
Common ways of trialling In QuickTrials there are different ways a trial can be defined depending on the outcome you want to achieve. We’ve been listening to our customers and also looking at how traits are used over time. A key aspect is how to measure a trait, from an actual measurement technique point of view, but also from a timing and sampling perspective. Getting this right makes it easier [...]
Enter data using the mobile app or PC QuickTrials has always made it easy to enter data in the field using your mobile device, but sometimes people prefer to enter trial data on a PC (Eg. to enter data in a lab or harvest weigh station). You can enter data or make corrections to uploaded data, from your PC at any time via the web browser. Here’s how: Step 1: [...]
A single source of truth One of QuickTrials key benefits is its ability to organise lots of data and provide a single source of qualified information that can be referenced whenever needed. The structured data and integration possibilities provided by QuickTrials also help to ensure longevity of your trial assets. Our approach to digitising trials means your data will continue to grow in usefulness and value over time, as future [...]
A new List View With QuickTrails we want you to have the most effective and comfortable way of not only entering data but also reviewing it. The recently added grid view provides a great overview of the data and helps users to see the context of information in a two dimensional table like an Excel sheet. When working on devices with a small screen (Eg. a phone rather than [...]
Experimental Design Preview When setting up an experimental design, there are often many parameters involved to define the actual block and plot layout. To make this faster and more intuitive, we added a live preview of the layout at the bottom of the page. This preview allows you to play with the parameters and see exactly what will happen to the layout. It visually shows what you can expect as [...]
Trials are not only executed, but also have to be set up and configured. At QuickTrials, we try to optimize every step in that process, based on customer feedback. In this newsletter, we will focus on some recent additions that will help you raise efficiency to new levels. Groupless staff permissions One of the tasks when planning the execution of field trials is the assignment of staff, to define who [...]
Enterprise customers often need to compare trials across different geographic regions or examine specific traits across similar trials. This can be a tricky data organisation challenge and our recent enhancements help to streamline and solve this problem. Powerful Observation Library QuickTrials has a central library of traits to make it easier to compare traits across different trials or years. Our best-practice recommendation is to use this trait library as [...]
