Mastering the basics of information management with ActivityInfo
This course is your first step towards becoming an experienced administrator of your project in ActivityInfo.
Course curriculum
Introduction to the course and ActivityInfo
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- About your instructor
- Course prerequisites
- Welcome to the course! (4:57)
- Logical frameworks, information management (IM) systems, and ActivityInfo
- Case study: centralizing information management
- Using an indicator inventory to design your data collection plan (14:04)
- Introduction to the most common concepts used in ActivityInfo (5:48)
- Introduction to forms and how are they used to collect information in ActivityInfo (6:00)
- Getting familiar with the user interface (7:33)
- Navigating the documentation
Your first basic system
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- Introduction to databases and forms in ActivityInfo (5:30)
- Common form field types
- How to add your first database and form in ActivityInfo (5:34)
- Field properties
- Using relevance rules to implement skip logic (8:33)
- Tutorial: create a simple household survey
- Overview of the database settings (5:10)
- Introduction to permissions and roles in a database (6:03)
- How to add a user to a database (3:55)
- What happens when you invite a user to a database?
- How to add, edit, and delete a record in a form. (5:44)
- Overview of the Table View page. (4:48)
- What happens when you delete things?
Expand your data collection system
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- Introduction to reference and subform fields (5:32)
- Introduction to key fields (7:28)
- How to add a reference field to your form (7:42)
- How to edit the visibility of a form or folder
- Reference and subform fields as linked tables
- How to add a subform field to your form (9:19)
- Tutorial: Create a data collection system with reference and subform fields
- Understanding the cascading menus created for reference fields
- What happens when you delete a record in a reference form?
- How to reference ActivityInfo's geodatabase (6:16)
- Test your understanding of reference and subform fields
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