You have several options for recruiting participants for an Express mission. You can auto-recruit through the Dscout panel, invite Dscout panel scouts from a previous screener, or bring your own participants via a share link. You must choose a single recruitment approach for your mission – you can not combine recruitment approaches in a single mission.
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Auto-recruit from the Dscout pool
With auto-recruit, you can recruit Scouts directly through the Dscout panel. With this recruitment type, you’ll target your ideal participants through screening questions and targeting attributes. In the Screener tab of your mission, you can include up to 10 single or multi-select knockout questions and quotas. Any scout who is eligible based on your screening criteria will move directly into the mission after passing your knockout criteria. Your mission will automatically close once you have received your desired sample size of eligible recruits.
After an entry is assessed for quality, the scout and their entry will be available in the Express mission viewer and put on a 7-day payment hold. During this time, you may review the entry to ensure the scout appropriately responded to all mission prompts. After 7 days, the payment will be automatically released to the scout unless it is flagged for low quality.
Add from screeners
With the "Add from screeners" option, you can bring participants into Express from a screener run through Dscout’s Recruit tool. This approach allows you to leverage Express while giving you the ability to hand-pick your participants. This option also allows you to recruit scouts outside of the US from the Dscout panel to participate in an Express mission. Learn more about manually recruiting in Express.
Invite your own participants
If you already have people in mind who you want to take part in your mission, you can invite your own participants to the Dscout platform. When inviting your own participants, there will be no screener questions or targeting attributes, so you should only use this method if you have already pre-screened your participants to ensure they fit your research needs.
Invite via share link
When creating an Express mission, you can invite participants using a share link. This link will be generated by the Dscout platform, and you can send it directly to your participants once you’ve launched your mission.
Invite from Private Panels
If your organization uses Panelfox to manage participants outside of Dscout, you can add participants directly to your Express mission using Private Panels. For more information, see Private Panels.