Creating a New Project

  1. First start up NVivo 15.

  2. From the main screen, you will see that there are sample projects you can explore to get a feel for NVivo. We will look at one of these later. There are also several links to training and tutorials to learn more. But for us, let’s click on Create new project to get started.

    Nvivo welcome screen

  3. You must give your project and project file a name, so let’s call them both “NVivo Workshop”. You can add a description if you want.

    NVivo New Project pop up. The project is titled as: NVivo workshop

  4. Then select where you want to save the project file. Use the drop-down arrow to browse folders. Let’s save it where we have put all our other workshop files.

    NVIVO pop-up selecting NVivo Workshop as the location for the file.

  5. You may also want to select Autosave project to have NVivo save your project automatically every 5 minutes. Unlike with the Windows version, this does not affect your ability to Undo a change. Finally select Create Project to create your new project.

    NVivo Pop up with Autosave and Create Project selected

Technique: Qualitative Data Analysis | Tools: NVivo