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Getting Started


Creating a REDCap Account
How to register for a REDCap account or to change the email or name associated with your account.

Project Setup Page
This guide describes REDCap’s Project Setup page, which contains the checklist of items to be completed before moving the project into Production (going live).

Deleting a REDCap Project
This guide describes how to delete a project from REDCap so that is does not remain on the REDCap servers indefinitely.

Design & Build


Survey Basics
Step-by-step guide to setting up a survey based project. A must for any beginner wanting to set up a survey in REDCap.

Data Quality
Covers a variety of areas to focus on to improve the quality of data within your project, such as structured fields, field validations, ontologies.

Action Tags
Action Tags provide a way to customize the data entry experience for surveys and forms. They are special terms that begin with the ‘@’ sign that can be placed inside a field’s Field Annotation box when adding or editing a field. Each action tag has a corresponding action that is performed for the field when displayed on data entry forms and survey pages.

Survey Queue
Covers how to set up a "to-do" list of surveys for your study participants.

Automated Survey Invitations
Covers how to set up automated survey invitations, which allow you to schedule survey invitations to send automatically to participants based on specific conditions.

Data Import Tool
Covers the process for importing data into your REDCap project using the Data Import Tool.

Exporting Data from REDCap
This document focuses on manual export from REDCap using the “Data Exports, Reports, and Stats” Application.

Randomization
Covers the randomization module in REDCap, which helps you implement a defined randomization model within your project. This allows you to randomize your subjects (i.e., records in your project) by chance (rather than by choice) into specific groups, such as treatment vs control.

Managing Users


User Rights and Roles
This guide describes REDCap’s User Rights page, user privileges, and user roles. The User Rights page allows the project administrator to manage users in the REDCap project (such as add or remove users and user roles, and customize user privileges).

Using REDCap for e-Consent


REDCap e-Consent Workflow v1.0


REDCap e-Consent Workflow v2.0 - this workflow introduces e-Consent + Attestation

(Will be implemented on any new e-Consent implementations requested 11/01/2023 or later. Will not be implemented on e-Consent update requests where the original e-Consent was built prior to 11/01/2023.)

Add-ons


REDCap External Modules
External Modules are individual packages of software that can extend REDCap's current functionality and can provide customizations and enhancements for REDCap's existing behavior and appearance at the system level or project level. NOTE: REDCap External Modules are NOT part of core REDCap. There is a risk when using a REDCap External Module in your REDCap project as they are not supported by Office of Research IT and Vanderbilt..

REDCap Mobile App Setup
The REDCap Mobile App adds a new dimension to the software’s versatility by providing users with a tool for offline data collection when an internet connection is not available.

MyCap User Guide
Contains basic information about MyCap features and tips for configuring the MyCap setup on your project.

MyCap Features
Compares the features available in the MyCap Classic App and the latest MyCap App.



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