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• Upcoming webinars
• How to bulk import PDFs
• Full-text retrieval and review webinar, August 2022
• Developing a search strategy webinar, September 2022

Account setup

• How to login in and out
• How to change my login and password?
• How to transfer your account to a new organization
• How to manage reviews for your organisation (for Admins)
• FAQ: Why am I unable to register with my email address?
• FAQ: Can I add my colleague's email address to my account?
• FAQ: What access do I have to Covidence?

Setting up a review

• How to create a review
• How to oversee a review and setup who does what
• How to create and manage study tags
• How to create and manage keyword and phrase highlights
• How to create and manage inclusion criteria
• How to remove a team member from a review
• How to switch from dual to single reviewer mode
• How to get an overview of progress in your review
• View all articles in “Setting up a review”

Inviting users

• How to invite a team member to a review
• How to accept an invitation to join a review
• How to accept an invitation to join an organization account
• FAQ: Can I invite a team member from outside my organisation to join my review?

Screening studies

• How to screen by title and abstract
• How to screen by full text
• How to create and manage full text exclusion reasons
• How to undo a screening vote
• How to resolve screening conflicts
• How to filter studies during screening
• FAQ: What does a 'Maybe' vote do?
• FAQ: Can I allocate a set of studies to a specific reviewer for screening?
• View all articles in “Screening studies”

Importing references

• How to import references
• How to import Open Access references
• How to import grey literature references
• How to bulk import PDFs
• How to undo an import
• How to view duplicates and errors
• How to tag studies not reporting on RCTs
• FAQ: Why are the abstracts missing from my imported studies?
• View all articles in “Importing references”

Exporting data

• How to export study lists to your reference manager
• How to export inter-rater reliability data
• How to export extracted data to Excel using Data Extraction 1.0
• How to export and interpret PRISMA
• How to export extracted data to Excel using Data Extraction 2.0
• How to export studies to RevMan using Data Extraction 1.0
• How to track and report 'snowballed' references and reference source information
• How to upload your data to RevMan Web
• View all articles in “Exporting data”

Data Extraction 1.0

• How to get started with data extraction
• How to set up extraction tables for outcomes
• How to do comparison and consensus
• How to add custom text fields
• How to add a custom study design
• FAQ: Why is Covidence telling me I need to talk to my co-author to customise the data extraction form?

Data Extraction 2.0

• How to decide when to use Data Extraction 1.0 vs Data Extraction 2.0
• How to create and publish a data extraction template
• How to create and publish a quality assessment template
• How to configure settings
• How to do comparison and consensus
• How to create tables
• How to un-merge
• How to use multi-select checkboxes
• View all articles in “Data Extraction 2.0”

Quality assessment

• How to setup a Quality Assessment form
• How to start an assessment in Quality Assessment 1.0
• How to customise the Risk of Bias domains in Quality Assessment 1.0
• How to annotate the PDF in Quality Assessment 1.0
• How to compare reviewer assessments in Quality Assessment 1.0
• How to finish your assessment in Quality Assessment 1.0
• How to view other assessments in Quality Assessment 1.0

Cochrane reviews

• How to run a Covidence training session for Cochrane reviews
• How to log in to Covidence via your Cochrane Account
• How to create a Cochrane review
• How to work on a Cochrane review
• How to update a Cochrane review

Guideline discussions

• How to use discussions in Covidence
• How to use evidence base
• How to invite your team and accept an invitation
• How to provide feedback and get help
• How to join the waitlist for discussions

Payments and billing

• How to obtain a purchase receipt
• FAQ: Why do I get an error message when I try to pay by credit card?

Training

• Upcoming webinars
• Data extraction webinar held in Feb 2022
• Video introducing Extraction 2.0
• Video of the main steps in Covidence
• Video to get you started with Covidence
• Scoping reviews webinar held in May 2022
• Webinars for Cochrane authors
• Covidence: Student Q&A Webinar
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About Covidence and systematic reviews

• Who uses Covidence?
• What are the different types of review?
• How can I cite Covidence?
• How University of Ottawa use Covidence
• Publications that have cited the use of Covidence for supporting their review

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• Cleveland Clinic
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