Creating a New Project

  1. First start up NVivo 14 or 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. Finally select Create to create your new project.

    NVivo Pop up with Create Project selected

Technique: Qualitative Data Analysis | Tools: NVivo


First created: November 20, 2023
Last updated: May 12, 2026

Tutorial maintained by Kelly Schultz.

Tutorial created by Kelly Schultz.

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