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Creating and navigating a REDCap project
REDCap project
Creating a new project
Now let's create a demo project and walk through it together.
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When creating a new project, you will be prompted to make sure you've registered your project in ProTrackS.
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If you've already registered and added your CTSI number to your project title, then you may select "I Agree". If not, select "Cancel" and make sure your title contains the CTSI ID.
Once a new project is requested, we try to acknowledge and approve all requests within 24 hours, so please plan accordingly!
Project-level navigation
When you first access your newly created project, you will be taken to the "Project Setup" page.
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This page is your friend! Here, you can find a chronological order of things that you need to enable and/or customize while creating your REDCap project.
Additionally, the navigation pane on the left is where you will find most of the features that you will be using on a daily basis. Some of these may be hidden for you depending on your user account rights. Below is a short introduction to each section shown here. Some of the links will be explored in greater depth in alter sections of this training.
Project Home and Design
If you are designing and creating your REDCap project, you will be spending most of your time in the links shown in this section.
Data Collection
This is the section that houses links to the pages that let you enter and collect data within REDCap.
Applications
REDCap comes with many features that help with data collection, data managements, and study management. Many of these can be found in this section.
Reports
If you create custom data reports from the "Data Exports, Reports, and Stats" link in the Applications section above, they will become accessible here.
External Modules
Sometimes, core REDCap functionality is not enough for your project. External Modules are extensions to REDCap developed by the community, available for use within your projects, if needed. If you have any External Modules enabled for your project, they will be shown here.
Help & Information
Links here will quickly take you to the FAQ and training videos that were shown earlier.
REDCap help within the application
You may have noticed that there are many buttons and links within the Project Setup page that take you to helpful videos or articles about certain features within REDCap.
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The REDCap application has many of these links available at various points in the application. These are designed by the Vanderbilt team to make using REDCap as stress-free as possible. Click around when in doubt- you may find a resource that will help when you are stuck!
Instrument Design
Once your REDCap project is created, you will be configuring your project and creating instruments to use during data collection. As REDCap is very customizable and can be used for various use cases, we will only touch on the basics of configuring a REDCap project here. If you have certain use cases that require a more in depth explanation, we have a whole range of knowledge artlces that can be of help.
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