The KoboToolbox Essentials Course is specifically designed to help learners improve their data collection skills. The new Essentials Course provides a comprehensive introduction to using KoboToolbox, including designing surveys, deploying forms, using mobile devices to collect data, creating reports, and more.
Whether you are a new KoboToolbox user or simply looking to improve your skills, this course can help you use KoboToolbox more effectively to collect, manage, and analyze data.
About the course
In this hands-on self-paced course, you will develop foundational skills in data collection and management. Upon completion, you’ll receive an official certificate.
The KoboToolbox Essentials Course is designed by experienced trainers and educators who know how to help learners succeed. KoboToolbox’s Knowledge Transfer Specialist, Alexander Mtembenuzeni, will lead you through the course.
What will the training course cover?
By the end of the training course, you will be able to:
- Create and design forms using KoboToolbox's intuitive interface
- Perform essential functions using Formbuilder, KoboCollect, and XLSForms
- Test and deploy forms for data collection
- Use KoboToolbox's advanced features to customize forms, including skip logic and validation criteria, cascading selects, calculations, and translations
- Manage and analyze data by working with reports, viewing and downloading data, and automating workflows
- Create visualizations to communicate insights and findings
- Identify how KoboToolbox can be used by different organizations to collect data
When is the training course?
The training course is entirely online and self-paced, so you can complete it on your own schedule, get real-time results on learning assessments, and receive feedback on your progress.
Who should attend this training?
This course is perfect for anyone new to using KoboToolbox for developing forms, deploying forms, and collecting data. It is also useful for those who need to refresh their knowledge of using KoboToolbox effectively. There are no prerequisites.
By taking the KoboToolbox Essentials Course, you will get an introduction to KoboToolbox and develop foundational skills in data collection and management.
How is the training organized?
The course contains 11 learning modules with 3 hours of video instruction. Each learning module includes videos, quizzes, and hands-on exercises to help you practice and apply what you learn.
Each video is accompanied by written key points and a list of key terms, and each module includes a summary to reinforce important concepts.
Are translations of the course materials and videos available?
The Essentials Course is also currently available in French as the Cours d’initiation à KoboToolbox. All course content has been translated into French, and French subtitles are included for each video. Please note that some of the additional resources provided in the course are only available in English.
Our team is planning the translation of the Essentials Course into other high priority languages. At this time, we are unable to provide the exact date of when these courses will be available. We appreciate your patience as we work to make the course as accessible as possible to as many learners as possible. As we continue to make improvements, we hope to offer translations of more course materials in multiple languages.
About KoboToolbox
KoboToolbox is a powerful tool for developing data collection forms and collecting, managing, and analyzing data. As the most widely used primary data collection tool in the nonprofit sector, it is the tool of choice for over 14,000 social impact organizations, with over 20 million surveys collected per month and 700,000 users across the globe.
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Fee information
This training costs $49 USD which includes the learning materials and an official certificate of completion.If you are interested in enrolling your entire team or multiple members of your organization in the course, special pricing packages are available for large groups.
How to register
Interested individuals can enroll in the KoboToolbox Essentials Course in English or French here.
If you are interested in enrolling your entire team or multiple members of your organization, please contact us at training@kobotoolbox.org.