For an introduction to REDCap, including:
- What is REDCap?
- Why use REDCap?
- How to access REDCap?
Please visit the following document:
For an introduction to REDCap, including: - What is REDCap? - Why use REDCap? - How to access REDCap? Please visit the following page .
There are a number of online tutorials that you can view to learn more about REDCap: REDCap Online Training Videos
Recordings for two training sessions conducted at NSLHD can be accessed at the bottom of this page. Once logged in, you are also able to access the Help & FAQ section at the top of your home page or on the bottom left of your modules. This is regularly updated by REDCap's FAQ Committee. REDCap Help &FAQ
For basic steps on how to create a new project, please visit the following page: How to create a new project Once you have created your project, you will be taken to the project setup page of your project. This page is essentially a checklist for your project. It contains the major settings to customise your project. The following page provides a walk through on the project setup page: Project Setup One of the final steps in the project setup is testing it out prior to collecting real data. Once you are happy that the project does what you want it to, you can move the project to production mode which signals to your project that real data is being collected and provides additional safeguards for your data. For more detailed information on what to look out for when testing your project, please consult the following guide: Project Testing Considerations
Surveys For a guide on navigating the various survey functions of REDCap, please have a look at the attached document. Surveys are explored in greater detail in the Intermediate training session recording at the bottom of the page
Step by step guide to creating a basic project to send a survey
The following guide has been created for users who are primarily interested in using REDCap to send surveys. Steps are provided on how to go about creating the project.
Action tags + Piping Demo This resource provides various examples of action tags. In doing so, piping is also introduced. Action tags are an excellent way to customise the data entry entry experience. Adding action tags to fields can perform various actions such as enforcing character or word limits, automatically populating data (via setvalue or default action tags) or modifying fields so they are hidden or read-only. More information on action tags can be found here .
Piping allows you to inject previously collected data elsewhere in your project. More information on piping can be found here . The following resource provides more examples of piping in action: Piping demo
Date Calculation Builder This resource assists with building two calculations related to dates: 1. The time between two datesCalculated fields can be created in your project. A commonly used calculation is a 'datediff' calculation to calculate the time between two dates.
2. A new date based on existing datesCalculated fields can only produce numerical answers. To calculate dates you can utilise an action tag as shown in the 2nd part of this resource.
Field Embedding This resource provides screenshots of various field embedding examples that are utilised in the project template: Field Embedding Example Project.
Field embedding allows you to re-position fields on a survey or data entry page. Custom formatting can be produced such as replicating the formatting of paper based forms to capture data in table formats or placing linked questions next to each other.
More information on field embedding can be found here .
Smart Variables This resource explores smart variables in more detail by providing various examples. Smart Variables are special variables that allow you to reference information other than data fields. They are context aware and able to adapt to many different situations. For example, smart variables can provide URL's or links to particular surveys/instruments or recognise the current user's username, the current event or instance of an instrument or reference particular events or instances, such as the previous, current, first or last event/instance.
One of the most common smart variable uses is in the default survey invitation message, where [ survey-link] and [ survey-url] are utilised (spaces have been added after the [ to display the smart variable).
More information on smart variables can be found here .
On average, REDCap will have planned downtime every 3 months to upgrade and take advantage of new features that are released. Details of new features can be found here . Recent upgrade log:26/5/22: NSLHD REDCap upgraded to V12.4.0 24/2/22: NSLHD REDCap upgraded to V12.2.4. 4/11/21: NSLHD REDCap upgraded to V11.4.2. 3/9/21: NSLHD REDCap upgraded to V 11.3.0. 7/5/21: NSLHD REDCap upgraded to V11.0.0. 4/2/21: NSLHD REDCap upgraded to V10.8.0. (More details of the V10.8.0 upgrade can be found here. Features in this upgrade include new action tags: @INLINE, @PREFILL, @CALCDATE, @CALCTEXT and the piping options :LINK and :INLINE.)
Newsletters are sent between upgrades as a way of informing users about changes to the NSLHD REDCap and providing a quick overview of various features of REDCap. These newsletters include feature projects and examples of lesser known REDCap features. Previous newsletters can be found here .
Newsletter 2
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Introduction to REDCap
For an Introductory presentation looking at the NSLHD REDCap, please see the video below.
Introductory presentation conducted on 10/03/2021 looking at an overview into: -what REDCap is (timestamp: 0:00) -why you should use REDCap (timestamp: 3:20) - how to go about making a project (this includes a demonstration on how to create and test a project, timestamp: 15:50). 5 minutes were allocated to questions which involved a quick discussion on automating survey invitations at certain timepoints and distributing a link for a survey (timestamp: 51:06), which will be explored in more advanced sessions.
Unfortunately forgot to record the first couple of slides, which were an overview of the session and introduction to REDCap: REDCap is a web based data collection tool, the NSLHD REDCap can be accessed at https://redcap.link/nslhd . Example uses include creating surveys, databases, projects to collect data for audits or research. Slides can be accessed here
Intermediate Training Session
For a presentation exploring surveys and project setups involving longitudinal designs or repeating instruments, please see the following recording of the Intermediate Training session conducted via Zoom on 31/3/2021 @10:30am-11:30am. The session focused on two key areas: surveys and projects utilising longitudinal setups or repeating instruments. In exploring surveys (ie. what are surveys, how to enable surveys and different methods of distributing surveys), the piping feature was discussed as well as data importing via the import tool. 1:00- What is a survey? 4:30- What is piping? 7:55- Setting up a survey 15:54- Different methods of distributing the survey: Method 1- Public Survey Link 20:23- Different methods of distributing the survey: Method 2- Survey Participant List 27:40- Different methods of distributing the survey: Method 3- Existing Records 33:04- Data import 41:46- Automatic Survey Invitations 45:30- Longitudinal and Repeating Instruments/ Events introduction 46:18- Longitudinal Projects 53:26- Repeating Instruments 55:35- Questions Slides can be accessed here Majority of the presentation was demonstrations, for more informative slides on the surveys aspect please see the surveys document under Additional Resources.
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