🎓 KoboToolbox Academy Update: Free Essentials Course

We’re excited to share that the KoboToolbox Essentials Course is now available for free in English, French, and Spanish.

This change comes in response to feedback from our learning community and the growing demand for accessible, high quality data skills training. By removing cost as a barrier to our flagship course, we hope to make it easier for more people to build practical skills for collecting, managing, and using data effectively.

The Essentials Course covers the foundations of working with KoboToolbox and supports learners who use data for informed decision-making, program design, monitoring and evaluation, reporting, and more.

Making high quality data training and digital tools more accessible is central to Kobo’s mission. Stronger data skills can help individuals and organizations make better use of their data and contribute to positive change in the communities they serve.

You can now enroll at no cost in your preferred language:

Happy learning!

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This is exciting news. The fact that you have been able to cover 3 languages is amazing. I am looking forward to working through the course :tada:

Hi @LisaBurke, I am happy you are also benefiting from the course. From the experience I am having while taking, the course does not require any prior survey design experience. It walks you through:

  1. What KoboToolbox is and how it is used generally :hatching_chick:
  2. How to create an account and what to keep in mind when doing that :building_construction:
  3. Then it gets into the basics of survey design, going from zero to hero :graduation_cap:

Hi @sgarnier and @alexander, something I noticed in Module 5, specifically 5.6 HXL, after following https://hxlstandard.org, I noticed that HXL services have been retired: