Free Virtual-Online Training Course in Mobile Data Collection Using ODK
Join researchers, M&E specialists, and field teams across Africa who are replacing paper forms with powerful, offline-capable ODK surveys. Enroll now and get instant access.
Format
Free / Online / Virtual
Target Audience
Researchers, M&E, NGO Staff
Cost
100% Free
About the Training
Master Mobile Data Collection Using ODK
Learn how to design digital questionnaires, collect data offline using ODK Collect, manage field teams, and work with an online ODK server.
This practical online training takes you from questionnaire design and XLSForm development through deployment, data collection, management, visualization, and analysis.
What You Will Learn
- ✓ Build, design, author, and digitize questionnaires and surveys using XLSForm syntax.
- ✓ Check XLSForm forms for errors, validate forms, and convert XLSForm to XForm.
- ✓ Set up a free sub-domain using Free DNS.
- ✓ Set up an account on DigitalOcean.
- ✓ Set up and deploy an ODK server on DigitalOcean.
- ✓ Integrate ODK Collect with an online ODK server.
- ✓ Collect data offline on mobile devices using ODK Collect.
- ✓ Upload and aggregate collected data on a cloud server.
- ✓ Visualize, manage, analyze, and map data online.
- ✓ Download data from an ODK server using ODK Briefcase for further analysis using MS Excel, Tableau, Power BI, Stata, SPSS, or R.
- ✓ Manage enumerators and devices during data collection.
- ✓ Apply best practices in mobile data collection.
Target Roles: Researchers, M&E specialists, Field teams, Project officers, NGO & INGO staff, ICT officers, and related professionals.
