07 Jun Improved Alerts and Notifications Available Now
REDCap now has the Alerts and Notifications feature that allows you to create and send customized email notifications to your study staff, participants, or other collaborators with ease....
REDCap Tip of the Month
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REDCap Tip of the Month
28 May How To Protect Your Surveys From Spam
The Internet can be an unsafe place for surveys. Fortunately, REDCap recently introduced the Google reCAPTCHA feature to protect your public surveys from spam and abuse....
28 Feb Longitudinal Piping in REDCap
One of the great things about using data collection software is its ability to automate otherwise tedious or redundant tasks. To pull previously collected data into fields within a single project, use REDCap’s piping feature. Similarly, to pipe data into an instrument at various points...
28 Jan Longitudinal Projects in REDCap
Certain research studies seek to capture the same data over time in order to track change and progress. Longitudinal projects in REDCap can enable smooth, timely data collection and minimize the set-up burden of repeatedly used instruments. Enabling longitudinal data collection in REDCap allows any form...
17 Dec Using Report Folders in REDCap
As your volume of reports in REDCap grows, they can become unruly and difficult to manage. Having the ability to organize or hide reports in the left-hand navigation pane of your project can mitigate this challenge. Now, with "Add/Edit Reports" privileges, you can create folders...
06 Nov Introducing REDCap Messenger
Transmitting or discussing participant details in a secure manner can be a challenge. Email is an un-secure method of communication and therefore almost always discouraged. REDCap has solved this issue with a feature called, “REDCap Messenger”. REDCap Messenger is a communication platform built directly into REDCap...
24 Oct Piping Fields 101
Have you ever struggled to write survey questions which read more naturally? For instance, consider gender-neutral phrasing. REDCap’s piping feature might be able to help with that. Piping allows you take any previously entered value (like a first name) and display it anywhere else within the...
19 Sep Using advanced functions for calculations in REDCap
Incorporating calculations into a survey instrument can be tricky to execute for any REDcap user. Recently, Samantha Walkow at BC Children’s Hospital created a new tool called BuildMyCalc to help guide REDCap users through this process. ...
27 Aug REDCap Action Tag Spotlight: @IMAGEMAP
For many types of research, having a clickable image would make data collection a whole lot easier. The IMAGEMAP action tag enables you to design a survey in which certain text fields become part of an interactive, selectable, image....
24 Jul Using REDCap to consent research participants
Obtaining written consent is in important part of the clinical research process, however managing paper forms can be a major hassle to this crucial step. Now, REDCap offers a digital way to acquire and store participant consent through a new e-Consent Framework and PDF Auto-Archiver....