Target Participants

The course is useful for professionals who use data as part of their work and who need to make decisions from data analysis. This course does not assume prior knowledge of SurveyCTO or any other data collection platform.

What you will learn

By the end of the course the learner should be able to:

• Convert paper forms/questionnaires into digital forms that can be used for mobile data collection and case management
• Collect high-quality and secure data both online and offline using SurveyCTO
• Integrate SurveyCTO with other tools
• Carry out data and real-time monitoring during field data collection
• Build basic mobile application, install and use on phone.
• View, manage and export data compatible with statistical tools for further analysis

Course duration

5 days

Course Outline

Module 1: Introduction

Mobile Data gathering

• Benefits of Mobile Applications
• Data and types of Data
• Introduction to  common mobile based data collection platforms
• Managing devices
• Challenges of Data Collection
• Data aggregation, storage and dissemination
• Questionnaire Design

Introduction to SurveyCTO

• Introduction and Key Concepts
• Advantages of SurveyCTO
• Key Features of SurveyCTO
• Case studies on use of SurveyCTO

Module 2: Setting up SurveyCTO  Server

SurveyCTO  Server

• Components of SurveyCTO
• Data aggregation, storage, and dissemination
• Setting up a SurveyCTO server
• Managing users & user roles

Setting Up SurveyCTO  Collect App

• Installing SurveyCTO collect from google play store
• Configuring SurveyCTO collect app
• SurveyCTO   Collect Application  Interface

SurveyCTO Online Form builder

• Creating a form
• Input types
• Adding question to Form
• Form logics
• Import  and export forms 

Module 2: Survey Authoring using XLS Forms

Building Forms using XLSForms

• Introduction to xlsform designer
• Components of XlSForm
• Question types
• Handling constraints and required options
• Form skip logic
• Form Operators and Functions
• Grouping Questions
• Settings Worksheet
• Importing xlsforms to surveyCTO server

Module 4: SurveyCTO  Collect and Data Monitoring

Using SurveyCTO  Collect

• Managing forms in SurveyCTO Collect
• Collecting GPS data
• Submitting data to  SurveyCTO Server

Monitoring Data with SurveyCTO Data Explorer

• Monitoring Submission statistics
• Monitoring Form submissions and dataset
• Reviewing and correcting incoming data
• Summarize data submitted for individual fields
• Summarize the empirical relationships between field

Module 5: Data Management and Visualization

Data Management

• Exporting &Exporting data from SurveyCTO as CSV via SurveyCTO Sync
• Importing SurveyCTO – CSV file into statistical applications
• Downloading data directly from SurveyCTO

Visualizing Geographic Data

• Exporting GPS Coordinates to Google maps and Google Earth
• Exporting GPS data for Mapping/Visualizing