On the Overview tab of your media survey, you can choose whether participants must provide their name and email address to participate in your mission. Removing this requirement can get participants in and out of your study more quickly—however, less data will be collected. Review your options below to choose what makes the most sense for your research.
Participant sign up
By default, participants are required to provide their name and email address before they can participate in missions, including media surveys. However, you can disable this requirement if you don’t want your participants to have to complete this additional step.
| Setting | Description |
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| Require participant sign-up (default) | Participants must provide their name and email address to participate in your mission. Note: Requiring participant sign-up does not automatically add a participant to Dscout’s Scout Panel. Requiring sign-up simply allows us to better assist if issues arise by collecting the participant’s name and email address. |
| Skip participant sign-up | Participants are not required to provide their name or email address to participate in your mission. Warning: Be aware of the following when skipping participant sign-up:
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