Welcome to the REDCap Training Center: Your starting point for learning and support!
Want to learn how to build your own REDCap projects, instruments, and surveys? Ready to take your projects to the next level with branching logic, alerts & notifications, and survey scheduling? Looking to enhance your surveys and forms using REDCap’s advanced internal features?
REDCap offers a streamlined, self-service process for rapidly creating and designing projects, with tools that can be tailored to virtually any data collection strategy—no programming or database experience required.
Because UCH REDCap is a self-service application, users are responsible for their own training. To help you succeed, we strongly encourage you to take advantage of the free training materials and resources provided below.
As a web-based system, the best way to learn REDCap is by exploring the platform directly within your own account. Our structured training modules, step-by-step guides, and support materials walk you through the basics and highlight the key functionalities of the application, while also giving you the flexibility to learn at your own pace. This hands-on approach ensures you gain practical experience and always have resources to return to as you build your projects and skills.
Data Entry Training
The main audience of this module is designed for users who only need to interact with REDCap to enter data or distribute surveys to participants.
Level 1: This foundational level aims to teach users how to enter data in a simple REDCap project.
Level 2: This level teaches users how to enter data in more complex projects and how to distribute surveys to participants.
Level 3: This level dives deeper into some of the more advanced features available for data entry in larger and more complex REDCap projects.
Project Builder and Management Training
This module is designed for users who will be setting up their own REDCap projects or managing an existing one. Additionally, those looking to develop integrations for REDCap should begin here to understand the basic architecture of any REDCap project.
Level 1: This foundational level is aimed at getting users started with minimal knowledge needed to setup and run a REDCap project.
- Project Navigation
- Data Entry – Basic
- Form Design Overview
- Online Designer – Basic
- Branching Logic – Basic
- Importing Overview
- Surveys – Basic
- Data Export – Basic
Level 2: This level teaches users how to setup more complex projects and utilize features like longitudinal, surveys, and the data dictionary.
- Data Dictionary
- Data Entry – Longitudinal
- Survey Distribution – Basic
- Record Navigation
- Data Entry – Intermediate
- Data Export – Intermediate
- Longitudinal Setup
- Survey Settings
- User Rights
- Piping
Level 3: This level dives deeper into some of the more advanced features available in larger and more complex REDCap projects.
- Field Embedding
- Survey Distribution – Intermediate
- Data Resolution Workflow
- Alerts and Notifications
- Randomization
These training materials were developed by Bas de Veer and Amy Dawson (Wake Forest School of Medicine) and are available to the REDCap Community for distribution and sharing.
Tutorial Videos
Check out these REDCap videos that can help you get started and gain a better understanding of the REDCap application and its functionality.
- REDCap Training Videos (projectredcap.org): These videos were created by Vanderbilt, the creators of REDCap. They provide a great starting point for first time users. We ask that all users review these before starting a project. It also goes over some of the newest features.
- The University of Colorado Denver maintains an impressive collection of training videos including a YouTube channel.
- The University of Arizona has a vast collection of training materials available. Highly recommend!
Please note that since updates to REDCap generally outpace the revision of tutorials, there may be some minor differences in the way that the user’s version of REDCap looks in comparison to the video.