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Online credit limit (update on 29/Mar/2023)
On 01/Apr/2023 an online credit limit of 50% comes into effect for all study programmes from Psychology, Linguistics and Sports Psychology that require credits (= Versuchspersonenstunden). This means that maximally half of the to be earned credits can be acquired from online studies. The departments Psychology, Linguistics and Sports Psychology reached this decision in March 2023. The credit bonus for lab studies of ½ credit for each lab visit remains.

This regulation will be implemented directly on the SONA platform. As a result, participants will only be shown online studies if they do not exceed the online credit limit (or if they will not exceed it by participating in an available study, respectively). Students who at the time of introducing the online credit limit on the 1st of April have already earned more than 50% of the needed credits in online studies will profit from a goodwill agreement, meaning that all earned credits will be acknowledged!

There is still the possibility to participate in online studies even if the online credit limit has been reached. This way, participants can support the research at the University of Potsdam (participation without credit for their study programme) and they are able to participate in paid online studies that offer both methods of reimbursement (money or credit) and therefore are implemented as online credit studies in SONA.
More information on how to do this can be found in the FAQs under the question "Can I continue to participate in online studies even though I have reached my credit (VP-Stunden) limit for online studies?".

Finally, a technical remark:
Online studies with a (live) video-chat appointment (like Zoom) do not count as online studies in SONA! Online studies are only considered those studies for which you can participate at any time. These studies are marked in the title with "[ONLINE]" and only these count for the online credit limit.