REDCap tutorials
This book contains tutorials related to complex functionalities from REDCap as well as a list of new functionalities that are introduced at each major update.
Of note, if in REDCap you are not seeing one of the functionalities presented in the book, it means that you do not have the access rights. To access the desired functionality, go to 
, select your username and click on 
to adjust the individual access privileges. If you are not even seeing the option, then you need to ask the project responsible or the Sponsor/PI to grant you access to the desired functionality.
Recording of the last REDCap Database Implementation Course [10.04.2024]
The course material can be downloaded here.
Standardized questionnaires
To speed up the implementation of your database, REDCap provides a large amount of standardized questionnaires that you can directly import as instruments in your project: list of available standardized questionnaires.
Importing a questionnaire
REDCap Consortium
Open your REDCap project, go to 
and then click on 
to see the list of existing questionnaires.
Fof your information, Curated instruments highlighted with a star 
have been approved for inclusion by the REDCap Library Oversight Committee (REDLOC) after review for research relevance, accuracy in function and coding (see guidelines), and copyright issues.
Once you have identified the questionnaire that you are looking for, simply click on its name and then on "Import into my REDCap project" :
To import the questionnaire you will have to agree to the "Shared Content Agreement":
You can then define a custom instrumet name (or simply leave it as default):
That's it, now the questionnaire is imported as the last instrument of your project:
Citation
If you download and utilize an instrument from the REDCap Shared Library, please cite the RSL manuscript accordingly:
Jihad S. Obeid, Catherine A. McGraw, Brenda L. Minor, José G. Conde, Robert Pawluk, Michael Lin, Janey Wang, Sean R. Banks, Sheree A. Hemphill, Rob Taylor, Paul A. Harris, Procurement of shared data instruments for Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap), Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Available online 10 November 2012, ISSN 1532-0464, 10.1016/j.jbi.2012.10.006. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1532046412001608)
External Providers
If you do not find what you are looking for, you can also have a look at one of the external libraries.
Still in , click on 
and then 
to access their respective websites.
Then you will have to download the instrument as .zip file and upload it in your project by clicking on 
(this same process can be applied if you want to upload an instrument from another REDCap project).
Of note, make sure to follow the external libraries rules regarding citations and copyright.
Uploading a questionnaire
If your REDCap project is in production status, then you can also share any of your own data collection instruments that you have created by uploading individual instruments to the Shared Library, after which they will be accessible and downloadable by any REDCap user in the world.
For that purpose, once your instrument is developped and well validated, please fill in this form: https://redcap.vumc.org/surveys/?s=9MHM3RDYN7
Please note that the UniFR REDCap Team will not take part nor provide any support in this process.