If you are new to Transform, create your account. Enter your email address, create a password of 8+ characters, and agree to the terms of service. If you have already created your user account, please log in.

If you forgot your password, a temporary password can be sent to you at the email address provided.

If you were invited to participate in a survey, please follow the directions provided in your invitation email.

Any Pending & New assessments, manual downloads, and reports will be listed on your Transform homepage. You can also click the menu on the left to view all your Documents, Assessments, Reports, and Campaigns (if applicable).

Click on the assessment name to begin the survey.

You will receive an email when a report is ready for you. If you are expecting a report but have not received an email about this, please contact your campaign administrator. To view a report, click on “My Reports” and click on the name of the report. Transform will immediately generate your report (this may take a few moments). The report can be downloaded as a PDF or viewed in a browser anytime via your Transform account.

Go to any Mind Garden page (www.mindgarden.com). Click Login in the upper right corner.

If you are new to Transform, create your account. Enter your email address, create a password of 8+ characters, and agree to the terms of service. If you have already created your user account, please log in.

Go to any Mind Garden page (www.mindgarden.com). Click Login in the upper right corner.

If you are new to Transform, create your account. Enter your email address, create a password of 8+ characters, and agree to the terms of service. If you have already created your user account, please log in.

Check that you are using the same email address that is associated with your Transform account. If needed, click the ‘Forgot your password?’ link and provide your email address. You will immediately be sent a temporary password. When you have logged in with the temporary password, go to the Account page, Profile tab, and click Change Password.

If you were invited to complete an assessment, your survey administrator may have chosen a method that limits the number of survey participants. Please contact the survey administrator who sent you the invitation to inquire about completing the survey.

If you are trying to access Transform as a Rater (you are rating someone in a multi-rater campaign such as the MLQ 360) then you do not login. Click on the link you received in your survey invitation to access the survey.

Go to the Transform login page. Make sure you are using the correct email address associated with your Transform account.

Click the ‘Forgot your password?’ link and provide your email address. You will immediately be sent a temporary password. Login to Transform using the temporary password. Go to the Account page, Profile tab, and click Change Password to create a password of your choosing. Make your edits and click the blue Update button to save.

1. Go to https://transform.mindgarden.com/login

2. If you are new to Transform, create your account. Enter your email address, create a password of 8+ characters, and agree to the Mind Garden Terms of Service. If you have already created your user account, please log in.

3. Once you are in Transform (the Mind Garden term for this system) click on the word “Campaigns.” Select the instrument you want to use if you purchased more than one, then click “Add a campaign.“

4. The Campaign Details tab.
You can change the name of the default campaign name by editing the "Campaign Name" text box (the campaign name is for your reference since you can create as many campaigns as you want to organize your groups of people). The “Default Language” allows you to administer the instrument in another language if available. The “Campaign Status” allows you to stop access to this assessment. Click “Save & Continue” to get to the next tab.

5. The Email tab.
With the option “I’ll Send My Own Email to Participants", you will be provided with a login link to send to participants. It is essential that you add your participants on the Participants tab before sending them an email with this link.  Click on “Sample Participant Invitation Email” to know what to add to your email to participants. Be sure to use the link on the email tab, not the example in the Sample email. With the option “Let Mind Garden Send the Invitation Email,” you can read the email that will be sent by clicking on “Preview a sample participant email.” You can use the text box to put a participant response deadline into this email. You can also change the subject line of the email and add text before the Mind Garden text. If you click “Save & Continue” and then come back to the Email tab, you can see your additions to the email to be sent to participants. Click “Save & Continue” to go to the Settings & Licenses tab.

6. The Settings & Licenses tab.
The top of the page shows you how many data and report licenses you have. If you have only data licenses you can purchase report licenses if you want reports for some or all of your participants. Report licenses always include a data license because the original responses and scale scores are included in the report price. If you purchased reports, under “Report Management,” you have control as to how/when reports are released to the participants. You can have reports applied to all participants you can add or you can choose which of your participants you want to get reports. You have control of when participants get reports, either you select participants and release the report to their login, you have the reports released immediately when they finish their form, or you choose not to release reports to your participants. This option is to make sure reports are not accidentally released. You can always change the options. A “Norm” is a collection of participants. The collection can be either the participants in a campaign or participants in several campaigns. The norm statistics will show up in individual reports if a norm name is set on the “Settings & Licenses” tab of the campaign. The norm statistics is what is in the group reports. You will need to contact us to have a norm name created for you. The “Purchase Additional Licenses” section provides you with a quick way to purchase services associated with the instrument you are using in this campaign. Click “Save & Continue” to go to the Participants tab.

7. The Participants tab.
You can add participants to your campaign by typing their first name (space), last name (space) and email address; then click “Import”. You will then be asked to verify the names/emails; to confirm, click "OK". Once "OK" is clicked, the email invitation will be immediately sent to the participant if you selected the “Let Mind Garden Send the Invitation Email” option; otherwise, you can now send you own email with the link provided on the email tab. As each of your participants completes the assessment, their status will change from "pending" to "complete".

8. The Reports & Data tab.
Once participants have completed assessments, click on the “Reports & Data” tab to retrieve their data and reports. If you chose to release reports to your participants, you can do so to the right of the participant name.

Login to Transform and go to Campaigns. Click the campaign name and go to the Email tab. Click on the Response Deadline field[s], make your edits, and click the blue Save button to save your changes.

To communicate the new response deadline date to your participants, Go to the Participants tab. Click the Resend link by all applicable participants’ names to resend the survey invitation with your new deadline.

If you haven’t purchased a Transform product your Transform account will not be of use to you yet. Please view OUR PRODUCTS, TOPICS, or YOUR ROLE pages to explore our products and services. You will need to purchase a Transform Survey Hosting product, an Individual Report product, or a Multi-Rater report product.

LOGIN: From our homepage, click Login. This will take you to our Transform login page.

• New User: If you haven’t created an account with us before, use the right-side green box to enter your email address, choose a password, and agree to our terms of service. Then click Create.
• Returning User: If you have already created a Transform account, enter your email and password in the left-side blue box and click Login. If you forgot your password, a temporary password can be sent to you at the email address provided.

You must first create a campaign. Login to Transform and click on Campaigns in the left-side green menu. Select the appropriate form and click the blue Add a Campaign button. Follow the onscreen instructions and input your campaign settings: the campaign name, survey invitation method, participants, etc.

Your survey may be administered in any of several methods. The survey methods vary in how easily your participants can access the survey. The methods also vary in how much control you as survey administrator have over the quality and characteristics of those responding.

Confidentiality: Mind Garden will not sell, distribute, or otherwise use the email addresses of survey participants (see our Privacy Policy for more information).

Normal (email-specific invitations): You import names and email addresses into Transform. After you click Import, then OK, Transform sends an email directly to the participants. You have the option of adding text to the default Mind Garden email. The participant clicks on the invitation link to a login page where they provide their email address, create a password, and go directly into the survey.

• Advantage: Gives you as survey administrator the most control over who responds to your survey.
• Disadvantage: Requires login to take the survey, which some respondents dislike.
• Advantage: Timesaver option available for you to send a reminder to all Pending (Incomplete) participants with a click of a button instead of reminding each participant individually. Contact us to enable this feature on your campaign.

Link Method: Use your own email program to send the survey invitations. You import participant names and email addresses into Transform. The system will generate your survey link but will not send the invitations. The participant receives an invitation email from you and clicks on a link to a login page where they provide their email address, create a password, and go directly into the survey.

• Advantage: You have control over who takes your survey. The system will allow only one survey per email address in this campaign.
• Disadvantage: You cannot send a reminder email to all Pending (Incomplete) participants with the click of a button because the invitations are sent from your email program.

Special Key Link Method: We provide a survey link for you to distribute. When a participant clicks on the special key link they go to a login page, provide an email address, create a password, and can access the survey. Contact us to enable this feature on your campaign.

You don’t import names and email addresses into the campaign because each participant provides this information at login. Contact us to restrict your special key link for use only with certain email address domains.

This method writes the participant’s email address into the data file (this information can be suppressed at your request).

A special key link will appear in this format: transform.mindgarden.com/login/key/xxxxxx where “xxxxxx” is the campaign ID. 

• Advantage: Individual Reports can be generated because each participant has logged in with an email address.
• Advantage: Special key link can be restricted for use only with certain email address domains – contact us to enable this feature.
• Disadvantage: If an unrestricted survey link becomes available via internet search, anyone can take your survey and use your purchased licenses.
• Disadvantage: You may run out of licenses which blocks any more participants from responding to your survey. You can purchase additional licenses to keep the survey open. Note: a license is considered “used” when the participant sees one or more item from the form (assessments that are started but not completed are considered “used”).

No-Login Method: We provide a no-login survey link that you may post. Participants see this as the least invasive method of taking a survey because they can take it anonymously without login or providing an email address. The no-login method is designed to work with single-rater instruments. Contact us to enable this feature on your campaign.

Note that this link does not automatically appear in your campaign, and it must be provided by Mind Garden staff. No login is required but a cookie is written, associated with that browser and computer for 30 days. After an assessment is completed using that browser and computer, a participant who tries to take the survey there will see a message that the assessment has already been completed. But if another browser or computer is used, it is a whole new usage and the participant can take the survey again.

To have multiple participants take the survey on the same browser and computer, delete the cookie after each completed assessment.

• Advantage: Ease and convenience for your participants to take the survey, and with complete anonymity.
• Advantage: Participants use one of your purchased licenses when they open the survey. Licenses without associated data are recycled after one day.
• Disadvantage: A participant may respond to the survey multiple times (although Transform will allow only one survey per browser per computer). You will not know who is responding to your survey and the licenses may be used up by anyone who has the survey link. Be careful where you post the link because if it becomes available via internet search, your licenses may be used by unintended participants and quickly exhausted.
• Note: To provide personal reports when using the No-Login Link method requires customizations for a fee and purchase of report licenses.

Bulk Upload Method: You create a CSV file with several hundred or several thousands participant email addresses and upload it to your campaign. We provide you a survey link to email to your participants. Participants can only gain access to your survey if their email address is in the bulk upload. Transform keeps track of how many participants have been invited, responded, and completed the survey in the Participants tab of your campaign. You can purchase enough licenses to cover only the number of opened surveys; minimum purchase of 500 licenses is required. Each login to your survey constitutes one license use, even if the survey is not completed. Bulk upload is not available for multi-rater instruments like the MLQ. Contact us to enable this feature on your campaign.

Key-in Method: For customers who want to take advantage of our online automated scoring, but whose respondents use paper/pen surveys, we offer the key-in method. You simply create participant identities in the system and proceed through the surveys, one respondent at a time. Purchase Transform Survey Hosting license for this method. If you have already purchased License to Administer, contact us.

Purchase Transform Survey Hosting licenses for the form. If you already purchased License to Administer, please contact us.

Create a campaign. Go to the Email tab and select “I’ll Send My Own Invitation Email to Participants”. This will disable the automatic invitation feature.

Go to the Participants tab and create identities for each participant. You can use real or fake names and email addresses – they will not be notified about the survey. (If you are sending your participants an Individual Report, you may wish to use their real information. Transform can send an email with a link to the report for you when you click Release to Participant.)

After you import the participants into Transform, simply click on the participant name and proceed through the surveys, one participant at a time.

Individual Reports: By setting a Group Norm, each participant’s Individual Report will include a comparison of their scale scores as compared to an aggregate of all participants within the campaign group who have completed the assessment.

When using a Group Norm, it is best not to release the Individual Reports to the participants until all participants have completed the assessment. Another option is to automatically release the reports to the participants as soon as a participant completes the assessment without the Group Norm set. Later, after all participants have completed their assessment, you set the Group Norm and let the participants know that they can re-download their report if they would like to see the group norm comparison.

Group Reports: By setting the same Group Nor across multiple campaigns, you can compare one campaign’s group scores with an average score of all campaign groups with the same Group Norm set.

Contact us to create a Group Norm.

Login to Transform and click on Campaigns. Click on the campaign name and go to the Email tab. Select “Let Mind Garden Send the Invitation Email” and scroll to the Rater Response Deadline text box. Enter the deadline date for raters to complete the assessment. After entering the rater email information, re-select the second email option “I’ll Send My Own Invitation to Participants” (this is critical) and click Save & Continue.

Go to the Participants tab. Use the white box to type-in or copy/paste the name and email address of each participant (not raters). Click the Import button below and click OK to add the participants.

In the Current Participants section below, click on a participant’s name to enter the participant’s unique webpage. Go to Step 2 “Complete your Self Rating” and click on “Use this link to access your self rating.” This link opens the participant’s questionnaire in a new tab. Copy the URL and paste it into an email message that you create from your own email program. This URL is unique to this particular participant, so make sure to send the URL to the correct Participant. When the participant clicks on their unique link, they will be taken directly to their self-assessment (they do not login to Transform and they do not create a password. Repeat this process for each participant.

You may now add raters to each participant without the participant adding or seeing their raters.

Default method: your participants receive an email from invite@mindgarden.com with instructions for Transform login and how to access the assessment.

You also have the option of sending your own survey invitations. See Campaign Administration Settings.

If you chose to “Let Mind Garden Send the Invitation Email” in the Email tab of your campaign settings, assessment invitations will be sent out automatically as you add Participants to your campaign via the Participants tab.

If you chose “I’ll Send My Own Invitation Email to Participants” in the Email tab, it is your responsibility to email the invitation link to the Participants you have added in the Participants tab. If you want Mind Garden to send the invitation email after selecting this Email option and adding your Participants, follow these steps:

1. Go to the Email tab of your campaign settings and select “Let Mind Garden Send the Invitation Email”. Click Save & Continue.

2. Go to the Participants tab. Send the invitation to each participant by clicking the green "Resend" link next to their email address and name.

You can confirm your invitation email settings on the Email tab in your campaign. Mind Garden invitations are sent automatically if you selected “Let Mind Garden Send the Invitation Email” when you import your Participants.

Advise your participants to check their email Spam folder and add Invite@mindgarden.com as a trusted contact.

Check that you used the correct email address for each Participant you added to the campaign. If you entered an incorrect email address, send Mind Garden the edits. After we have made the edits, you will need to resend the invitation to the Participant(s).

To resend an invitation, go to the Participants tab in your campaign settings. Find the participant in the list and click the green Resend link by their email address and name.

If you selected “I’ll Send My Own Invitation Email to Participants” in the Email tab, it is your responsibility to provide the invitation link to the Participants you have added in the Participants tab.

Yes. Login to Transform and go to Campaigns. Click on the campaign name and go to the Email tab. Select “I’ll Send My Own Email to Participants.” Your standard survey link will display below and you can copy/paste this link into your own survey invitation. Click Save & Continue to save these settings.

For single-rater, self-only or rater-only campaigns: To pre-load participants and send the invitations later via Mind Garden: Click on the Email tab of your campaign settings. Select “I’ll Send My Own Invitation Email to Participants” and click “Save & Continue.” This option lets you add Participants without Mind Garden automatically sending their invitation emails. When you are ready to send the invitation emails, change the Email option to “Let Mind Garden Send the Invitation Email,” and use the Resend link in the Participants tab to individually send participant invitation emails. To automatically send invitation emails to all “pending” participants, contact us for access to the “Resend all” option.

For multi-rater (360-style) campaigns: To pre-load participants and send the invitations later via Mind Garden: Click on the Email tab of your campaign settings. Select “Disable All Invitation Emails from Mind Garden” and click “Save & Continue.” This option lets you add Participants and Raters without Mind Garden automatically sending their invitation emails. When you are ready to send the invitation emails, change the Email option to “Let Mind Garden Send the Invitation Email,” and use the Resend link in the Participants tab to individually send participant or rater invitation emails. To automatically send invitation emails to all “pending” participants and raters, contact us for access to the “Resend all” option.

Self-Only or Rater-Only Forms: Use the No-Login Method of administration. With this method of survey administration, we provide a No-Login survey link that you can share with participants. Participants may prefer this method of taking a survey because they can take it anonymously without login or providing an email address. The No-Login method is designed to work with single-rater instruments only.

If you want to send your anonymous participants Individual Reports, contact Mind Garden for a Special Key link to share with your participants. Each participant will use the link to login. When you enable the Participant Privacy setting on your campaign, this will omit all participant names and email addresses from the campaign data file. With this setting you will not have access to any Individual Reports associated with the campaign.

You can add participants to the campaign up to the license quantity purchased. If you are unable to add all your participants, you may have exhausted your license inventory. You can view your license inventory on your Account page or in the campaign, on the Participants tab.

To purchase additional licenses, go to the Settings & Licenses tab in your campaign.

If you chose the Standard Survey Method: To access the survey, the participant must login using the same email address you provided on the campaign Participants tab. Once they login, they can change their preferred email address on their Account page. A participant who has forgotten their password can request a temporary password by clicking “I forgot my password” on the login page.

If you chose the No-Login Survey Method: your participants do not need to login. When they click on the Mind Garden no-login link that you provided, they can access the survey directly.

If you chose the Bulk Upload Method or Special Key Link Survey and you have used all available licenses, participants will not be prompted to login. To check your number of available licenses, login, click on Account and click the Licenses tab. To purchase additional licenses, visit www.mindgarden.com or contact us directly.

If the participant is a Rater (they are rating someone in a multi-rater campaign such as the MLQ 360 or Authentic Leadership Questionnaire) then they do not login. The rater should follow the link in their survey invitation. This applies even if the rater is also a participant in a campaign – they log in for their self-only survey but do not login to rate others.

Login to Transform and click on Campaigns. Click on the campaign name and go to the Email tab. Select “Let Mind Garden Send the Invitation Email” and scroll to the “Rater response deadline” text box. Enter the deadline date for raters to complete the assessment. After entering the rater email information, re-select the second email option “I’ll Send My Own Invitation to Participants” (this is critical) and click “Save & Continue”.

Go to the Participants tab. Use the white box to type-in or copy/paste the name and email address of each participant (not raters). Click the Import button below and click OK to add the participants.

In the Current Participants section below, click on a participant’s name to enter the participant’s unique webpage. Go to Step 2 “Complete your Self Rating” and click on “Use this link to access your self rating.” This link opens the participant’s questionnaire in a new tab. Copy the URL and paste it into an email message that you create from your own email program. This URL is unique to this particular participant, so make sure to send the URL to the correct Participant. When the participant clicks on their unique link, they will be taken directly to their self-assessment (they do not login to Transform and they do not create a password. Repeat this process for each participant.

You may now add raters to each participant without the participant adding or seeing their raters.

There are two ways to accomplish this.

1. Use the No-Login method of administration. Participants take the survey anonymously, without login or providing an email address. No login is required but a cookie is written, associated with that browser and computer for 30 days. This allows participants to resume an interrupted survey if needed. The No-Login method is designed to work with single-rater instruments. Contact Mind Garden to set up an assessment with the No-Login method.

2. Enable the Participant Privacy setting on your Campaign Details tab. Enabling this setting means all participant names and email addresses will be omitted from the campaign data file. You will not have access to any Individual Reports associated with this campaign

Many of our instruments feature Individual Reports and Group Reports as accessory products.

Individual Report: A report that interprets an individual's scale scores for the selected assessment. Most reports include interpretive text and development tips. You invite participants to take the survey and Transform™ generates their reports. The Individual Report includes a Transform™ Survey Hosting license.

Report About Me: A personal report that interprets your scale scores for the selected assessment. Most reports include interpretive text and development tips. This report includes a Transform Survey Hosting license. You complete the survey and Transform™ generates your report. Transform will connect this report to the "Send To" email provided at checkout. This is for personal use only and requires no campaign administration to access.

Multi-rater/360 Report: A report that compares the participant’s self-assessment (optional) and the raters’ assessment of that participant. Most reports include interpretive text and development tips. Multi-rater/360 Reports include a Transform™ Survey Hosting License.

Group Report: A report that calculates and summarizes average scale scores for a group of participants taking the assessment. The Group Report does not include Transform™ Survey Hosting Licenses – you must purchase this to collect data for your Group Report.

You may only access your Individual Report after you complete the assessment and after your survey administrator releases the report to you. Once the Individual Report is released, you will receive an email from invite@mindgarden.com with directions to access your report.

You can access all available reports on Transform™. Login to Transform and click on My Reports (this will only appear if you have a report available). Click on the report you wish to view.

Login to Transform and click on Campaigns. Click on the campaign name and go to the Settings & Licenses tab. Select your report release option from the three choices. Click Save & Continue to save your changes.

As the Administrator, you control if/how/when reports are released to the participants. You can release the reports to participants yourself, or have Transform™ automatically release reports to participants, or not release reports at all. Contact us if you would like to be blocked from viewing Individual Reports.

There is an additional process for Multi-rater Individual Reports: As the administrator, you control when you request each report to be generated and if/how/when the reports are released to participants. If you choose to release the reports yourself, you must request the report and then click the “Release to participant” link. If you choose to have Transform™ automatically release reports to Participants, this will happen immediately after you request the report.

You should request the report for a participant when you are ready to view the results of the multi-rater assessment. The “request report” button will appear when the participant [or 2+ same, lower or other level raters; or one higher level rater] completes the assessment.

Requesting the report allows you the administrator to access the report. The participant will not have access to the report until you “release report”. Transform™ automatically updates the report as more raters complete the assessment. Reports with new data will be marked as “new data” in your Reports & Data tab in your campaign settings.

If you have already purchased a Group Report for this form:

1. Login to Transform and go to your campaign. Go to the Settings & Licenses tab. Your current license inventory is shown in a blue box at the top of the page. Any Group Report licenses you have for this form will be listed. You can only apply one Group Report per campaign.

2. Go to the Group Report section below, click the “Apply a group report license to this campaign” button. A window will pop-up asking for confirmation.

3. The group report will become available after at least two (2) participants have completed your survey.

If you have not yet purchased a Group Report for this form:

1. Go to www.mindgarden.com to purchase the appropriate Group Report; OR

2. Go to your campaign. Go to the Settings & Licenses tab. Under the PURCHASE ADDITIONAL LICENSES section, click the Group Report link. This will take you to the appropriate page on www.mindgarden.com . After you purchase the Group Report, login to Transform and go to your campaign. Follow the instructions as above in the ‘already purchased’ section.

The group report will become available after at least two participants have completed your survey.

Login to Transform™ and click on Campaigns. Click on the campaign name and go to the Settings & Licenses tab. Under the Group Report section, click “Apply a group report license to this campaign”.

If this button does not appear, you must purchase a Group Report license. Scroll down to the Purchase Additional Licenses section. Click on the Group Report product. You will be redirected to the appropriate purchase page on www.mindgarden.com. Add the Group Report to your cart and checkout to add the license. Then, go back into your campaign settings and apply the group report to your campaign.