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title: "Consent"
description: "Collect the consent your program needs from participants before they take part."
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> eSSESSMENT docs. Web page: https://presagetech.com/docs/essessment/consent
> Index of all pages: https://presagetech.com/docs/essessment/llms.txt

# Consent

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Your organization is responsible for collecting the consents it needs to run its protocols in Coherence. Presage's policies cover Presage, not your study.

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## Your options

<ul class="set"> <li><b>A Question step:</b> put your consent text in a <a href="https://presagetech.com/docs/essessment/step-types">Question step</a> at the start of the activity, with a checkbox set to <b>Must be checked to continue</b>. Participants can't continue until they agree. This isn't a formal e-signature, so check it meets your requirements.</li> <li><b>Offline:</b> collect consent with your existing process, such as your IRB-approved e-consent tool, before you invite people.</li> </ul>

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![Question step set up as a required agreement](https://presagetech.com/docs/essessment/assets/step-question.jpg)

<figcaption>A required agreement in a Question step</figcaption>
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## Recording consent

Coherence asks for recording consent only when an activity includes a Stream step with recording turned on. Participants read the notice, check the agreement box, and tap **Agree and start**, or **Cancel** to decline. **Agree and start** stays disabled until the box is checked.

Participants who have already accepted the current recording notice for that organization won't be asked again unless the notice changes.