Kobo Toolbox - Form Creation

Create a new Kobo Toolbox Form

You create a new Kobo Toolbox Form via the Kobo Toolbox interface.

• login to your Kobo Toolbox account Kobo Toolbox
• Go to the form section (make sure it shows Forms in the top left)
• Click on the add form button

Congratulations ! You have made your first Kobo Toolbox !

Kobo Toolbox Form Interface

The Kobo Toolbox form interface is separated into 3 main area :

• the menu bar
• the form title bar
• the form question area

The main area here that we will working on is the form question area

Adding a question

Kobo toolbox has many question types, more than google form has

First, let us change the form header

• click on the form title area
• change it to "mobile data collection survey - buildings"

Second, let's create a question to ask for the name of the building.

• click on the + sign button
• type the name of the question "what is the name of the building ?"
• set the question type to text

It should look like this :

Viewing the form

After you've edit the question, click on the preview form in the top

Your form will be shown :

Now save and exit the form.

Congratulations ! You have created your first Kobo Toolbox form !

Exercise

Add more questions to the form !

• Add a image question "get a picture of the building"
• Ada a gps "get the location of the building"
• note : make sure to set both of them as non-required (to avoid having issues of GPS problem later on)