REDCap News You Can Use

This page contains quick-reference REDCap guidance documents, best practices, security reminders, project maintenance tips, and educational resources designed to help study teams build, manage, and maintain high-quality REDCap projects.

Tip: These short guides are intended to supplement the REDCap Training Center and provide focused guidance on commonly overlooked topics, project risks, and best practices.

Security & Fraud Prevention

These resources focus on protecting REDCap surveys, minimizing fraudulent responses, and improving survey security.

CAPTCHA: Protect your Surveys, Protect your Data

Learn how CAPTCHA can help reduce automated survey submissions and improve survey integrity.

BOTS & FRAUD: Survey Security and Protection

Guidance for recognizing, preventing, and reducing fraudulent survey responses and automated bot activity.

Data Management & Quality

These resources provide guidance for reviewing, maintaining, exporting, and securely managing study data.

Managing Your Data: Data Quality Review and Backups

Best practices for reviewing data quality, exporting study data, and maintaining secure study backups.

Data Sharing: REDCap and the NIH Data Archive (NDA)

Overview of REDCap considerations and workflows related to NIH data sharing and data archive submissions.

Using REDCap for e-Consenting: e-Consent Framework & PDF Snapshot

Guidance for configuring and managing REDCap eConsent workflows and PDF consent snapshots.

Project Development & Testing

These resources focus on project setup, development workflows, and testing strategies before moving projects into Production.

Development Project Testing: How-To Guide

Recommendations and testing strategies for validating project functionality before active data collection begins.

Draft-Preview Mode: Test it, Tweak it, Trust it

Overview of Draft Preview Mode and how to safely review pending project changes before applying them.

User Access & Project Management

These resources focus on user access oversight, sponsor responsibilities, and project user management workflows.

Managing Project Users: Access & Sponsor Dashboard

Guidance for reviewing user access, managing external collaborators, and using the REDCap Sponsor Dashboard.

Project Maintenance & Optimization

These resources provide recommendations for maintaining healthy, organized, and well-functioning REDCap projects over time.

REDCap Project Maintenance

Project cleanup, maintenance, and organizational recommendations to help keep REDCap projects functioning efficiently.

Reminder: Study teams remain responsible for the ongoing oversight, maintenance, security, and data quality review of their REDCap projects throughout the study lifecycle.