Electronic Data Collection: A practical guide to using
XLS forms, ODK and Enketo
Welcome to the LSHTM ‘Electronic Data Collection’ course,
run by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Open Research Kits
group. You can find out more about us in the ‘About Us’ section below. This
course is intended to provide a practical step-by-step guide to those wishing
to collect data electronically using freely available software tools.
Objectives and Assessment
We hope by the end of this course you will be able to:
Appreciate the benefits of using electronic data
collection, the background to Open Data Kit and data encryption
Design a data entry form
Create a form for ODK and Enketo
Download and decrypting the data for analysis
Troubleshoot common problems independently
This is a free course aimed at providing a suite of
resources to enable you to collect data yourself electronically. As such, there
is no assessment associated with this course, and no credit awarded for
completion. The taught elements of the course will take approximately 1 hour to complete. The exercise will take approximately 1 hour to complete.
Feedback
We welcome feedback on the content of the course and
suggestions for improvement. Please feel free to contact us on the forum below.