Introduction

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. Kobo Collect is the android-based application used to collect the data which feeds into your Kobo Toolbox account. Just like other ODK interfaces, Kobo Collect can be easily installed on your phones using Google Play.

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

• a good smartphone using Android 4.0 with at least 1 gb of disk space