> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docsv1.empirica.ly/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docsv1.empirica.ly/guides.md).

# Guides

- [Tutorial: Your First Experiment](https://docsv1.empirica.ly/guides/tutorial-your-first-experiment.md)
- [Part 1: Getting Started](https://docsv1.empirica.ly/guides/tutorial-your-first-experiment/your-first-experiment.md)
- [Part 2: Configuring the Experiment](https://docsv1.empirica.ly/guides/tutorial-your-first-experiment/part-2-configuring-the-experiment.md)
- [Part 3: Adding Social Information and New Factors](https://docsv1.empirica.ly/guides/tutorial-your-first-experiment/part-3-adding-social-information-and-new-factors.md)
- [Part 4: Adding Chats](https://docsv1.empirica.ly/guides/tutorial-your-first-experiment/part-2-adding-chats.md)
- [Part 5: Adding Bots](https://docsv1.empirica.ly/guides/tutorial-your-first-experiment/part-3-adding-bots.md)
- [The Settings File](https://docsv1.empirica.ly/guides/the-settings-file.md)
- [Specifying Login Details](https://docsv1.empirica.ly/guides/the-settings-file/specifying-login-details.md)
- [Setting player ids via URL queries](https://docsv1.empirica.ly/guides/the-settings-file/id-url-queries.md)
- [Connecting Locally to MongoDB](https://docsv1.empirica.ly/guides/the-settings-file/connecting-locally-to-mongodb.md)
- [The Admin Panel](https://docsv1.empirica.ly/guides/the-admin-panel.md)
- [Special Empirica Elements (and how to modify them)](https://docsv1.empirica.ly/guides/special-empirica-elements-and-how-to-modify-them.md)
- [Deploying Your Experiment](https://docsv1.empirica.ly/guides/deploying-my-experiment.md): How to connect your experiment to a database and deploy it online so that others can participate
- [Database](https://docsv1.empirica.ly/guides/deploying-my-experiment/database.md): How to connect your experiment to a MongoDB Atlas database where data to run your experiment as well as participant data will be held.
- [Hosting](https://docsv1.empirica.ly/guides/deploying-my-experiment/hosting.md): Hosting your experiment on Meteor Galaxy so that people can access it and participate in it.
- [Managing the Data](https://docsv1.empirica.ly/guides/managing-the-data.md)
- [Using Custom Collections](https://docsv1.empirica.ly/guides/using-custom-collections.md)


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