Every step of the round, and the awkward bits between them
Most tools handle one stage well and hand you a CSV for the rest. The Hub
keeps the form, the data, the checks, the charts and the report attached to
each other — so a correction in one place shows up everywhere it matters.
Feature breakdown
Form builder
Thirteen question types, and none of them need an XLSForm sheet
Drag fields into order, group them into sections, mark what is required,
add a hint the enumerator will actually read. Rating and Likert questions
take a weight, so an appraisal or a scored assessment produces its
overall figure automatically.
TXT Short textTXT Long textNUM NumberSEL Single choiceMSL Multiple choiceLKT Likert scaleDTE DateGPS GPS pointIMG PhotoY/N Yes / NoRTG RatingEML EmailTEL Phone
One-click Kobo deploy
Save your KoboToolbox token once. After that, deploying builds the
XLSForm, creates and publishes the asset, switches on open submissions,
and hands back a link plus a printable QR code.
Re-deploying keeps the same form id, so QR codes already printed and
handed out keep working.
Validation that stays attached to the form
Set the rules once — ranges, required combinations, cross-field
impossibilities — and they run on every record, every round, including
data that arrives months later.
valid Passed every rule
warning Plausible, but worth a second look
error Cannot be right — fix before reporting
Sync that does not clobber your work
Submissions are matched on their Kobo id and updated in place. New ones
are added, existing ones refreshed — and rows you typed in by hand or
imported from a spreadsheet are left exactly as they were.
Deleting a project cleans up its forms, records, charts, reports and rules
together, so nothing lingers unowned.
Analytics that already know your form
Because the Hub built the form, it knows which fields are categorical,
which are numeric and which are scales. It offers the analyses that fit —
counts by province, averages by facility type, Likert distributions,
responses by enumerator — as a starting set you can prune.
BarLinePie & donutAreaRadarWord cloudCross-tab
Cross-tabs without a pivot table
Put any two questions against each other and get counts, row and column
percentages. The comparison every donor asks for — water access by
province, score band by school level — without leaving the browser.
Field monitor
Live collection progress by enumerator and location, average time per
interview, and which sites are still untouched — while you can still do
something about it.
Four roles
Admineverything
Analystdata + charts
Field collectorsubmit only
Viewerread only
English and Khmer, throughout
Not a translated marketing page — the interface itself switches.
Navigation, field types, statuses, roles and report sections all have
Khmer equivalents.
Once a form is deployed, enumerators open it from the QR code or the link —
no account, no app store detour if they are using the web form. For long
routes, KoboCollect stores submissions on the device and uploads them when
a connection turns up.
Open submissions: no KoboToolbox username or password to hand out
GPS, photo and date questions use the device's own pickers
Required fields are enforced before a submission can be sent
Print the QR once — it survives every re-deploy of the form
Health Facility Assessmentsection 2 of 5 · offline
Province *
Kampong Cham▾
Facility type *
HospitalHealth CentreHealth Post
Clinical staff on duty *
38staff
Clean water supply available *
YesNo
Overall service rating *
12345
Facility location
11.9934, 105.4640 · ±4m
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Template library
27 forms, already written by someone who has run the survey
Each one is a full instrument — sections, hints, choice lists, weights —
not a three-field stub. Deploy as-is, or treat it as a first draft and
edit it into your own.
Health
5 templates
HEHealth Facility Assessment
HEMaternal & Child Health Survey
HEDisease Surveillance Report
HECommunity Nutrition Assessment
HEMental Health & Disability Survey
Agriculture
5 templates
AGSmallholder Farmer Survey
AGRice Crop Production Assessment
AGFisheries & Aquaculture Survey
AGLivestock & Animal Husbandry Survey
AGValue Chain & Market Survey
Human Resources
5 templates
HRAnnual Performance Review
HR90-Day Probation Review
HR360° Peer Feedback
HREmployee Engagement Survey
HRExit Interview
Education
4 templates
EDSchool Quality Assessment
EDEarly Childhood Care & Development
EDTeacher Training & Development Survey
EDOut-of-School Children & Youth Survey
WASH
3 templates
WAWASH Household Survey
WACommunity Water Point Assessment
WASchool WASH Facility Assessment
Livelihoods
3 templates
LHHousehold Livelihood Assessment
LHMicroenterprise & Small Business Survey
LHMigrant Worker & Remittance Survey
Governance
2 templates
GVCommunity Service Delivery Survey
GVCommune Development Planning Needs
Nothing that fits?
Build from an empty form. The builder is the same one the templates were
written in, and anything you make can be saved and reused across projects.
Pick a layout, choose which sections to include, and the report assembles
itself from the current dataset. Regenerate after a correction and the
figures move with it.
Executive summary
Findings, charts and recommendations, short enough to be read in a meeting.
Field report
Cover page, methodology, findings and recommendations — the shape a field visit write-up takes.
Technical report
Methodology and appendix carry the weight, with the full chart set attached.
Donor report
Executive summary through to appendix, formatted for someone outside the programme.