Name: A quick tour of KoBoToolbox - a simple and safe way to collect reliable data
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Description: A quick tour of KoBoToolbox - a way to collect reliable data

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KoBoToolbox is a data collection tool designed for organizations working in challenging settings. According to the vendor, it is suitable for organizations of all sizes, from small nonprofits to large international organizations. Professionals and industries such as nonprofit organizations, humanitarian response organizations, development organizations, human rights organizations, and environmental organizations reportedly rely on KoBoToolbox for data collection and management.

## Key Features

**Powerful form development**: According to the vendor, users can create questionnaires with intuitive tools and choose from 25 quantitative and qualitative question types. The vendor claims that skip logic and validation can be implemented for high data quality.

**Data collection & analysis**: The vendor states that data can be collected offline or online, on any device. They also claim that users can review and validate data in real-time, and visualize data with custom maps and reports.

**Project & team management**: According to the vendor, users can share projects and data with fine-grained permission options. They claim that data collected from multiple projects can be connected dynamically, and integration with other tools is possible using the API.

**Secure and flexible**: The vendor states that KoBoToolbox offers an intuitive user interface available in multiple languages. They claim that users can maintain control over access to user-owned data and ensure GDPR compliance with free Data Processing Agreements (DPA) available.

KoBoToolbox is an open source survey tool used for data collection. It is available free, and maintained by Kobo, Inc.

SurveyMonkey provides free, customizable surveys, and a suite of paid, back-end programs that include data analysis, sample selection, bias elimination, and data representation tools. SurveyMonkey also offers large-scale, enterprise options for companies interested in data analysis, brand management, and consumer focused marketing.

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An online survey is a questionnaire that the target audience can complete over the Internet. Online surveys are usually created as Web forms with a database to store the answers and statistical software to provide analytics.

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A quick tour of KoBoToolbox - a way to collect reliable data

A quick tour of KoBoToolbox - a simple and safe way to collect reliable data

KoBoToolbox is a free and open source platform to collect data, developed by field researchers, evaluators and humanitarians, with the support of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, UNOCHA, the MacArthur foundation and other generous donors.

KoBoToolbox was designed to make data collection reliable, and easy to use during humanitarian crises and other challenging conditions with limited connectivity. KoBoToolbox works on- and off-line, and using mobile phones, tablets, or computers, through apps or web-based interface. 

KoBoToolbox offers simple ways to build complex forms and interview guides, collect information,  visualize results, and export data. It also includes a library function to share and export standardized.

Created over 10 years ago, KoBoToolbox remains under active development with new features added regularly. KoBoToolbox is used around the world in every humanitarian crisis and for monitoring and evaluation, impact assessment or field research among others. 

visit www.kobotoolbox.org

Survey Format & Appearance

Features related to the type, look & feel of surveys.

Online surveys

Paper surveys

Supports the creation of paper surveys. This might be a “print” option, and should include some mechanism for entering the data into the survey system for reporting purposes.

Phone surveys

Supports the creation and/or deployment of phone surveys, including a mechanism for entering the data into the survey system for reporting purposes.

Survey templates

Includes a selection of pre-made survey templates for different types of surveys.

Survey library

Includes an organization tool, such as a library, that allows the user to save, store and re-use or update past surveys.

Themes

Includes options for the look & feel of a survey, including different colors, fonts, layouts, etc.

Custom logo/branding

Allows the user to include their company logo (rather than the survey vendor’s logo) and/or create a company template so that branding is consistent across multiple surveys.

Single page survey

Survey appears on a single continuous page, rather than requiring respondents to click through to multiple pages.

Progression bar

Survey displays a progression bar so that respondents know where they are in the survey (how much completed vs. how much left).

Responsive design

Survey is optimized for a variety of screens and devices, including mobile.

Survey Content

Features related to the content (media, question types, answer types, etc) of surveys.

Multimedia content

Users can include audio, images and videos within surveys.

Drag-and-drop editor

Users can easily rearrange survey elements, such as question blocks, by dragging them into new positions.

Changes to live survey

Users can make changes to live surveys after they are published.

Question bank

Includes a set of pre-made sample questions or question templates.

Question design help

Includes educational material about question design for research, such as tips, recommendations, and information about best practices.

Multiple question types

Supports a variety of question types, such as multiple choice, select all that apply, ratings, text responses, etc.

Matrix questions

Supports matrix or grid questions, such as “How often did you: eat breakfast? …exercise?...get 8 hrs of sleep?” where each subquestion has the same set of possible answers (e.g. Always / Often / Sometimes / Never).

Translation/multi-lingual

Survey Logic

Features related to survey flow, or the logic that directs survey question order.

Survey logic flexibility

Survey question flow can be customized with skip logic, conditional questions, question branching logic, piping logic, and/or randomization.

Response requirement/validation

Users can require that a respondent answer before moving on or submitting, and can specify the type of response (e.g. a phone number) that will be accepted.

Skip logic

Users can include rules that cause certain questions to be skipped based on a respondent’s demographic information, answer to a previous question, or response time, for example.

Conditional questions

Users can create rules for questions that are only asked to certain respondents, or only asked if particular behavioral or demographic criteria are met.

Question branching

Users can create branching question pathways, where a respondent’s answer at a given stage determines the next set of questions they will be asked.

Piping logic

Answers provided by respondents earlier in the survey can be piped into survey questions later on. For example, if Q1 asks for the respondent’s name, Q2 can ask “What did you have for breakfast, [Name]?”

Randomization

Question order and/or question set can be randomized across the respondent pool.

Survey Reporting & Analytics

Features related to reporting & analytics for survey results.

Response tracking

Individual responses are coordinated with demographic information about the respondent. This information is stored and can be used for reporting and analysis.

Data export

Data collected within the tool can be exported to another program for additional reporting/analysis.

Real-time results

Users can view results on dashboards in real-time as they come in, rather than needing to wait to run a report or take counts after the survey is closed.

Standard reports

Includes canned reports that allow users to generate and share accurate survey results.

Custom reports

Allows users to report on custom metrics, choose which metrics to include in a report, run reports with advanced segmentation and/or customize the look and feel of a report.

Visualizations

Includes reporting or dashboard tools for visualizing survey data.

Analytics

Allows users to run different types of analysis, such as statistical analysis, cross tabs, sentiment analysis, etc. within the tool.

Survey Integrations

Features that allow users to integrate a survey tool with another system or tool.

CRM Integration

Survey respondent pools or segmentations can be drawn from contacts already in the company’s CRM and/or respondents’ contact information can be pulled into the CRM.

Social media integration

Supports social sharing, posting, registration via social profile credentials, and/or embedded social content.

E-commerce integration

Integrates with e-commerce or billing/payment tools.

Testimonials widget

Allows users to excerpt and embed text or data from surveys on their website.

Survey Automation

Features related to automating/triggering survey processes such as publishing and reporting.

Notifications and alerts

Respondent behavior (including survey completion, particular responses, or opt-outs) triggers notifications.

KoBoToolbox

Overview

What is KoBoToolbox?