REDCap:Inhalt

Purpose

REDCap stands for Research Electronic Data Capture and is a secure web application for building and managing online surveys and databases. Without any coding knowledge, you can create intuitive web forms that allow logged-in users to enter new data in a safe way. You can transform such web forms into surveys by making them public.

Main Features

• Projects with detailed settings and user access rights
• Streamlined development process that guides through development and testing of a project
• Coding-free creation of data capturing forms (so-called instruments)
  • Online Designer in real-time
  • Offline through so-called data dictionaries (excel sheets that can be uploaded)
• Ensuring data integrity:
  • plausibility checks with approval process when updating instruments during data collection phase
  • complete audit trail (possible to trace what each user modified in a project)
• Supporting safe and error-free data entry
  • Validation rules
  • Branching logic
• Surveys with built-in tools to distribute your survey link
• Report generation with built-in descriptive statistics
• Several data export formats
• Advanced features commonly needed in research
  • Anonymization
  • Support of longitudinal studies
  • Support of study arms
  • Support of randomization

Recommended training resources

Videos available when logged in in REDCap

• Detailed overview to get you started: Overview and tutorial
• Training for data entry staff: Entry

REDCap principles

• Projects
• User Roles

How to ...

In this section, you find questions from a user's perspective - they will guide you to the information you need.

Login

• ...log in (2-Factor-Authentification)

Projects

• ...start a new project

Surveys Layout

• ...display my fields in a custom layout
• ...show a progress bar in a survey with multiple pages

Surveys - Users, Anonymization, Informed Consent...

• ...ask for consent first / how to use stop criteria
• ...several instruments in a survey queue
• ...use authentication for a survey
• ...offer prizes (collecting user data) and keep survey data anonymous
• ...generate personal survey links without adding participant email addresses

Languages in Surveys

• ...create a survey in multiple languages
• ...create a survey in another language than English

Best Practices

• REDCap:Best Practices - Project Management
• REDCap:Best Practices - Survey Design

External Modules

In this section, you find information structured by external modules

• Activation of external modules in a project
• Multilingual
• Auto Populate
• Shazam
• Survey Auth

Troubleshooting

In this section, you find information, why something is not working as expected

• A not displayed field with default value leads to annoying error message
• Cannot switch to the first language in survey