REDCap Training

REDCap Basic Training

This is the first step in the REDCap training series.  In this training, we will build a new REDCap project from scratch and cover basic features such as:

  • Building forms with proper field types and validation
  • Assigning user permissions
  • Project backup and overview with data dictionary, codebook, pdf, and xml
  • Ensuring your project works properly by testing with real world application
  • Making mid-study modifications safely after having started data collection in production
  • Creating and exporting reports for data analysis
  • And more

This training is optionally hands on, so you can build your own REDCap project along with the instructor or just watch. After this training, you will have a basic understanding of REDCap

REDCap Intermediate Training

This is the second step in the REDCap training series. In this training we will cover basic and intermediate features such as

  • Outputting data automatically with calculated fields
  • Collecting the same data points multiple times with longitudinal and one-to-many data collection
  • Standardizing your data to industry standards with ontologies and the REDCap Instrument Library
  • Ways to customize your data entry experience with action tags
  • Viewing data with reports, dashboards, and charts
  • And more

This training is a demo and not hands on.  After this training you will have an intermediate understanding of REDCap.

REDCap Surveys Training

This is the third step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover survey configuration and distribution such as:

  • Allowing potential participants to self-initiate participation in your study with public surveys
  • Manually and automatically sending surveys
  • Administering electronic consent (e-consent) forms
  • Controlling survey access with conditional logic and survey login
  • And more

This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training you will have a basic understanding of surveys in REDCap.

REDCap Advanced Training

This is the fourth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will cover advanced features such as:

  • Importing data from csv
  • Ways to customize your data entry experience with form display logic
  • Making your forms more dynamic and personalized with context aware smart variables
  • Sending automated, conditional email alerts
  • Ensuring data is high quality by executing data quality rules, creating data missingness codes, and opening data queries
  • And more

This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training, you will have an advanced understanding of REDCap.

REDCap MyCap Training

This is the fifth step in the REDCap training series. In this training, we will discuss using the MyCap mobile app for data collection. We will cover features such as

  • Creating participants
  • Creating tasks and schedules.
  • Active tasks and their unique data output
  • Direct messages and announcements
  • And more

This training is a demo and not hands-on. After this training, you will have a basic understanding of the MyCap mobile app for REDCap.

REDCap Data Handling Training

This is the sixth step in the REDCap training series.  In this training, we won’t use REDCap at all.  Instead, we will cover ways to view and manage your exported REDCap data in Microsoft Excel and Sublime Text such as:

  • Populating data from one Excel sheet to another with vlookup()
  • Seeing specific data with column sorting and filtering
  • Ensuring data is cohesive by creating tables
  • Looking at how data relates to other data by creating pivot tables
  • Transforming unusable data to a useable format with text manipulation
  • And more

This training is optionally hands on so you can work on a sample data set along with the instructor or just watch.  After this training, you will have a basic understanding of Excel and Sublime Text.

Registration

Register here:  https://redcap.link/icts_training

All trainings are currently being held virtually. After your initial confirmation email you will receive a follow up email with the session link directly from the course instructor.

Help the Institute for Clinical and Translational Science at the University of Iowa continue making new strides in medical research by citing the NIH CTSA program grant UM1TR004403.