Illinois Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap) Survey Tool

 Visit “Accessing Illinois REDCap”

Illinois REDCap is a powerful, HIPAA-secure web application for managing the collection of data. 

With this survey tool, users can: 

• Build online surveys and databases rapidly. REDCap allows users to quickly develop projects via a point-and-click web interface or by creating a “data dictionary” in Microsoft Excel and uploading this template file into the application. Users can also create, modify, and utilize the form content without having to perform any programming or project development.
• Build online surveys and projects securely. Create and design your project using secure web authentication from your browser (i.e., no extra software is required). Additionally, Illinois REDCap is approved for collection of high risk data, including protected health information. 
• Provide multi-site access. Researchers from multiple sites and institutions can access your REDCap projects as long as the project is led by Illinois faculty or staff.
• Generate informal reports. Create custom queries for generating reports to view or download.
• Schedule and organize. Utilize a built-in project calendar and scheduling module for organizing events and sending out reminders for participant visits.
• Manage surveys and survey respondents. Put together a list of email contacts, generate custom email invitations, and follow who responds. Or, construct a single survey link and access code to email out or post on a website.
• Access and use the REDCap Shared Library. Download curated REDCap data collection instruments and forms for use in your project(s).
• Export data to common data analysis packages. Export your data to Microsoft Excel, SAS, Stata, R, or SPSS for statistical analysis.
• Collect data offline. Save your forms and surveys as PDFs so that you can print them and collect data anywhere.

Illinois REDCap is administered by the Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute (IHSI) and powered by Research IT, Technology Services, with education and training support from the University Library.

No. At this time, access to Illinois REDCap is provided at no cost to Illinois users and their collaborators.

• Student users must be supervised by a University faculty or staff member.
• External collaborators must first obtain a University of Illinois Identification Number (UIN), NetID, and Illinois.edu email account. This can be done by following the steps outlined here.
• All users, regardless of the risk-classification of their data, must complete HIPAA training and abide by the appropriate data protection measures when using REDCap.

Visit the Illinois REDCap homepage or contact the IHSI REDCap Team at redcap-admin@illinois.edu