Welcome to CommCare Fundamentals- an overview to what CommCare is and how it works!
In If you are new to CommCare, this should also give you a good understanding of how CommCare works. In order to become receive any type of CommCare certification, you must demonstrate an understanding of the learning objectives in this section. If you are new to CommCare, this should also give you a good understanding of how CommCare works.
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When you complete this section you should be understand and explain the following:
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CommCare- What is it
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1- Explore this: You can get a good overview of what CommCare is by reading through the public CommCare site.
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- Data collection
- Decision support
- Job aid
- Counseling tool
One other important thing to know is that CommCare is developed by a company called Dimagi. CommCare is Dimagi's flagship project, but Dimagi also works on a number of other mobile-based technologies.
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Each project has its own Workspace on CommCareHQ with its own name. A workspace is a secure web portal into your CommCare project. It contains all form submissions from your CommCare applications, as well as tools that help you create, manage, and deploy your applications and workers.
For example, there is a workspace called “helpsite” where we keep applications that used on the help site. We decided on the workspace it helpsite because it is simple and easy to remember. Whenever I visit a page in my workspace I can see “helpsite” in the address. For example, reports from the helpsite workspace are located here:
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The basic unit of data collection in CommCare is called a “Form.” It’s just like most paper-based system- if you want to complete something, you have to fill out a form! Sometimes a project requires lots of forms. If you are monitoring a river you might have to fill out one form the first time you visit the river, to collect basic data, and then when you go to make visits and measurements you have to fill out a different form. Perhaps if there is a flood or an oil spill there is a third type of form you have to fill out.
Forms and Modules
A CommCare Form is a group of questions and prompts that the user views sequentially on the phone. This is the core content of CommCare applications. When users submit data, they submit completed forms. They are fully customizable and support all kinds of handy things, like multiple languages, skip logic, and multimedia content. Forms are based on the XForms standard.
In CommCare, forms that are all related to the same type of thing are grouped together in Modules. A module can have one or many forms.
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