Using QuizApp with Amazon Mechanical TurkΒΆ

QuizApp includes a small script which allows you to post an Experiment as a HIT on Amazon Mechanical Turk. Using the script is fairly straightforward:

  1. Modify instance/mturk.yaml to correspond to your AWS credentials

  2. Run ./manage.py post-hits --experiment-id <experiment_id> with the ID of the experiment you wish to post.

    Note

    Make sure you are still in the virtual environment you made previously: workon quizApp

  3. If you are successful, you will see the message “HIT Created” followed by the ID of the HIT. You should now be able to see them in the requester interface on mechanical turk.

    Note

    This only creates the HIT in the amazon turk sandbox. If you wish to post it in the production environment, you must specify --live on the command line.

Further information on using the post-hits subcommand can be found by doing ./manage.py post-hits --help.