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When you enter the Online Designer, you will be greeted with a list of instruments that are configured for your project. In this page, you can create an instrument from scratch, upload a ZIP file of an instrument that has already been configured, or search within the REDCap Shared Library to find an instrument that has already been created by a fellow REDCap community user. you will also be able to copy, delete, download, and rename instruments when you select the "Choose action" button. When you first create a REDCap project, the first instrument will be automatically named “Form 1”. Rename this form by clicking “Choose action”.

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There are many other buttons visible here. Some of them provide in-app help that could be crucial to your project, or take you to other REDCap functionality that may be useful. Try clicking around to see where they take you.

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Here, you will be able to add new fields by selecting the "Add Field" button . as shown below:

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In REDCap, data is associated with a variable, which will have various attributes such as variable name, labels and other features such as validation, action tags etc. The variable and its associated attributes is called a field.

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