Add questions to a media survey

Your mission relies on the questions you want to ask your participants. Questions guide participants through your unmoderated studies, and you’ll be able to analyze responses to each individual question when participants complete your mission.

Media surveys will always have mission questions, but they will also include screener questions if you’re auto-recruiting participants. Refer to the sections below for more information.

Screener questions (auto-recruit only)

When auto-recruiting participants, screener questions use knockout logic to qualify or disqualify applicants. These questions are presented to applicants first and ensure only those who meet your requirements can complete the rest of your mission.

To add a screener question to your study:

1. Navigate to the Screener tab of your mission.
   
   
2. Click + Add under Screener questions in the left sidebar.

3. Select Multiple choice to add a new multiple choice question.
   
   

   Tip: You can also select Add from question bank to add a saved question from your question bank. For more information, see Question banks.
4. Enter a Prompt.
5. Enter your answer Choices.
6. Configure your knockout logic using the drop-down lists beside each choice. For more information, see Knockout questions.
   
   
7. Click Done.

Now, your screener question is added to your mission. Repeat the steps above to add more screener questions (up to 10 total) or move on to adding your mission questions.

Mission questions

Mission questions are the heart of your media survey. This is where you’ll collect the bulk of your insights, and these questions will make up most of your analysis when you’ve collected responses. When auto-recruiting participants, only those who qualify based on your screener questions will see your mission questions, and they’ll be advanced here automatically if they qualify.

To add mission questions to your media survey:

1. Navigate to the Media survey tab of your mission.
   
   
2. Click + Add in the center of the builder or under Questions in the left sidebar.

3. Select a question type.
   
   

   Tip: You can also select Add from question bank to add a saved question from your question bank. For more information, see Question banks.

4. Complete the provided question fields.

   Tip: For more information on individual question settings, search for its question type on the Dscout help center.
5. Click Done.

Now, your mission question is added to your media survey. Repeat the steps above to add as many questions as you need.

Instructions and thank you

Dscout includes default instructions and thank you messages on every media survey. However, you can add a custom message at the start or end of your mission for a more personalized feel.

To add custom instructions or thank you messages:

1. Navigate to the Media survey tab of your mission.
   
   
2. Select Instructions or Thank you in the left side bar.
   
   
3. Set the Custom message toggle to ON. The custom message field is displayed in the builder.
4. Enter your custom message.
   
   
5. Click Done.

Now, your custom message is added to your mission. Participants will see this at the start or end of your mission (or both!) depending on which you chose to configure.