Collecting Data Using Smartphones

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27 Lessons
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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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Viewing and analyzing data online

When you click View data in Table, it will show you all submissions using your Kobo Collect form. You will see the Column Headers and Answer Values. Since Kobo creates XML values from the responses, you can choose if you want the table to show the XML or Label values. This is the same with your Answer values.

If you want to return to the main project page, click Return to “project name”.

The Analyze Data option allows you to create tables online using your dataset. You can select one of your questions and summarize according to Frequencies, Percentage of total respondents, Mean, Median or Mode. You can select if you want to see the XML or Label values.

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Collecting Data Using Smartphones

Curriculum

Viewing and analyzing data online

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