Collecting Data Using Smartphones

Curriculum

5 Sections
27 Lessons
Lifetime

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Introduction to mobile data collection and ODK
An introduction to the challenges of mobile data collection and the tool that will be featured for this course: Open Data Kit
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- 1.1
  Introduction
Creating your ODK Data Collection Form
This module will introduce you to the initial setup of your spreadsheet for use with Open Data Kit
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Uploading and Testing your forms using Kobo Toolbox
This module will help you navigate the interface of Kobo Toolbox, a variation of Open Data Kit, to prepare forms before starting your survey.
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Setting up your Kobo Toolbox form on your Android device
Kobo Toolbox provides a good platform to collect data using two devices: your laptop and your mobile devices e.g. smartphones and tablets. On this module, we will talk about how to use your Kobo Collect forms on your devices.
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Managing your Kobo Toolbox database
With this last module about Kobo Toolbox and mobile data collection, we will talk about how to manage your Kobo Toolbox database using the online platform.
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Introduction

Welcome to Module 3 of the Collecting Data Using Smartphones course. Now you’ll learn how to use Kobo Toolbox. We have mentioned before that we will only use Kobo Toolbox online in setting up your ODK forms. Thus, it is very important that you have already created your Kobo Toolbox account. If you have not done so, create one here.

A Slidedeck has been created on how you can upload and test your forms using Kobo Toolbox.

People prefer to use the Kobo Collect app using their phones because of mobility and because the forms can be used offline.

It is ideal to use the Kobo Collect app using your phone or tablet if:

You need to do more than 50 household or field level surveys.
You have limited access to the Internet, in which case you can save your forms on your phone and submit them when you already have Internet access.
You have few enumerators and few equipment to use, thus, enumerators can just use their own phones or tablets to do data collection.

Prerequisites

your Excel form
your Kobo Toolbox account
good Internet connection

Settings sheet

Collecting Data Using Smartphones

Curriculum

Introduction

Prerequisites

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