Motivity offers the ability to add both event and phase/condition lines to your graphs. There are major differences between what these lines are and how to add them. This article will review the difference between event and phase lines.
What is an event line?
An event line is a dotted line on a graph that denotes the occurrence of an extraneous event. An extraneous event is an environmental change that is outside of your control. Data paths do not break across these lines.
Examples of extraneous events:
Medication change
School break
New RBT added to team
Change in family dynamic
Etc.
Because environmental changes may affect levels of responding across multiple behaviors and skills, event lines are universally applied to targets within a program. It can also be applied to other programs.
How do I add an event line?
Click on the graph
Click "+ event" in the top right corner
Enter details of event
Select which programs to add it to
What is a phase/condition line?
A phase or condition line is a solid line that denotes a change in the intervention. An intervention change is a change that is intentionally implemented by the BCBA. Data paths do break across these lines.
Examples of intervention changes:
Adding a break card
Implementing a new prompting strategy
Increasing the field size
Updating a behavior definition
Etc.
Intervention changes are generally relevant to one or very few targets. Due to this, phase lines are created within a program and applied to a target individually.
How do I add a phase/condition line?
Click on the program
Click "Edit"
First option
Clone an existing phase
Change phase name
Change any pertinent instructions
Second option
Click on the "+ phase" button
Build phase from scratch
Click "Update"
Manually transition target into the new phase