Enabling this setting encourages participants to type out authentic responses manually instead of pasting text from external tools or resources (such as generative AI).
Prerequisites & Permissions
Required Role: Administrator
Scope: Can be configured study-wide or on an individual task level.
Block Pasting for All Tasks in a Study
Enabling study-level block pasting prevents participants from pasting external text into text fields across all tasks in the study by default.
Steps
Navigate to Study Admin > Study Settings > Data Integrity.
Locate the Block Pasting header.
Toggle on Task responses.
Click Save.
Expected Outcome: Pasting copied external content is blocked for participants in all tasks within the study by default.
Block Pasting for a Specific Task
You can block pasting for a single task, or override the study-level default for an individual task.
Steps
Navigate to the Activity that contains the relevant Task.
Hover over the Task card.
Click the dropdown arrow on the card and select Edit.
Scroll to the Advanced header.
Select the Block pasting of external content checkbox.
Click Save.
Expected Outcome: The selected task applies the block pasting setting, regardless of whether block pasting is enabled or disabled at the study level.
Participant Restrictions and Administrator Exceptions
Task-Level Overrides
Study-wide block pasting settings apply to all tasks by default, but can be overridden within the setup of any individual task.
Deselecting Block pasting of external content in a specific task allows participants to paste content in that task even if block pasting is turned on for the study.
Participant Experience
When block pasting is enabled for a task, participants cannot paste copied external text into any response text field within that task.
Administrator Exceptions
Block pasting settings apply only to participants.
Enabling block pasting does not restrict administrators from pasting external content into the study space, unless an administrator is actively using Preview mode for an Activity or Task.
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