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As part of the Bluenotes community, you have access to both community-led learning webinars by your fellow like-minded colleagues in the Bluenotes community and learning webinars provided by Explorance experts.
Ask an Expert about Blue Dashboard, Reports, Analysis, and Report Distribution
In the interactive "Ask an Expert" learning webinar series, Explorance solution experts will answer pre-submitted questions from Blue users on Blue Dashboard, reports, analysis, and report distribution. Whether you’ve just started with Blue or you’re an Expert, this webinar is for you! Please submit your questions on the registration form below. If you have any specific questions on this topic that you would like us to consider while preparing for this webinar, please feel free to let us know on your registration form or via this community’s webinar discussion forum post.
Based on your submitted questions, the topics that will be covered are:
- Reporting on questions selected/personalized by stakeholder
- Tailoring the Dashboard view for specific stakeholders
- Showing individual results in an Aggregate-level report
- Combining response data from several questions when reporting
** while we do our best to cover all questions submitted, at times we may not be able to fit all the content in the time allotted. Rest assured that any question not covered, will be added to the list for the upcoming Ask the Expert webinar.
This learning webinar will also be delivered in French. To register for the French session, please see the separate registration form below.
Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
- November 19, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- November 20, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- November 20, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenters: Explorance's Solutions Architecture Team
Comment personnaliser au mieux Blue Dashboard pour éclairer votre prise de décision et vos actions d'amélioration
Votre processus de collecte de feedback est terminé et vous êtes prêt à partager les résultats avec les principales parties prenantes. De plus en plus d'établissements utilisent Blue Dashboard en complément des rapports Blue. Blue Dashboard permet aux parties prenantes d'explorer et d'interpréter l'information de manière interactive afin de répondre à leurs besoins spécifiques, ce qui permet de mieux informer la prise de décision et les actions d'amélioration.
Dans ce webinaire d'apprentissage, les experts en solutions d'Explorance vous montreront comment les utilisateurs de Blue Dashboard peuvent filtrer, comparer ou explorer des points de données spécifiques pour une analyse plus approfondie, aidant à découvrir des tendances et des modèles qui pourraient ne pas être immédiatement apparents. Avec des contrôles administratifs plus avancés disponibles dans la dernière version, les administrateurs de Blue Dashboard peuvent personnaliser une interface intuitive et conviviale qui simplifie la préparation des portfolios d'instructeurs pour la révision et plus encore. De plus, vous pouvez fournir des liens vers des ressources précieuses via le Blue Dashboard. Participez à ce webinaire d'apprentissage pour voir également comment différents Blue Dashboard peuvent être configurés pour différentes parties prenantes afin de se conformer aux exigences de confidentialité et de politique de votre établissement, car chaque tableau de bord peut être adapté pour afficher des mesures et des perspectives pertinentes en fonction du rôle et des besoins du lecteur.
Si vous avez des questions que vous aimeriez voir abordées dans ce webinaire d'apprentissage, n'hésitez pas à nous en faire part sur votre formulaire d'inscription ou via le forum de discussion de ce webinaire de la communauté.
Date: Mercredi 6 novembre 2024
Heure: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Heure de l'Est
Présentateurs: L'équipe d'architecture des solutions d'Explorance
How Best to Customize Blue Dashboard to Inform Your Decision-Making and Improvement Actions
Your feedback collection process is complete and you’re ready to share the results with key stakeholders. More and more institutions are using Blue Dashboard to compliment Blue reports. Blue Dashboard allows stakeholders to explore and interpret information in an interactive way to meet their specific needs, ultimately better informing decision-making and improvement actions.
In this learning webinar, Explorance solution experts will show you how Blue Dashboard viewers can filter, compare or drill down into specific data points for a deeper analysis, helping uncover trends and patterns that might not be immediately apparent. With more advanced administrative controls available in the latest release (version 4.2), Blue Dashboard admins can customize an intuitive and user-friendly interface that simplifies the preparation of instructor portfolios for review and for other purposes. Also, you can provide links to valuable resources via the Blue Dashboard. Join this learning webinar to also see how different Blue Dashboards can be configured for different stakeholders to comply with privacy and policy requirements at your institution, as each dashboard can be tailored to display relevant metrics and insights based on the viewer’s role and needs.
If you have any specific questions that you would like us to consider while preparing for this webinar, please feel free to let us know on your registration form or via this community’s webinar discussion forum post.
This learning webinar will also be delivered in French. To register for the French session, please see the separate registration form below.
Date: Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
- November 5, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- November 6, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- November 6, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenters: Explorance's Solutions Architecture Team
Blue Dashboard 4.2 Release Q&A Webinar – What’s New in the Driver’s Seat and Under the Hood
Join this release webinar to learn about the new features and functionalities in Blue Dashboard 4.2! In this webinar, Explorance product experts will share the new enhancements made in Blue Dashboard 4.2, such as Blue Dashboard admin ability to refine/filter the data available to end users, supporting right-to-left languages, and more.
Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
- October 22, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- October 23, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- October 23, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenter: David Norenberg, Product Training Specialist, Explorance
MassBay Community College’s “Special Sauce” - An Innovative Approach to Increasing Response Rates and Engagement
How do you get respondents to complete their surveys, even if there is no compulsory factor to do so? MassBay Community College successfully achieves a response rate of 55-70% on course evaluations for each session/ semester throughout the academic year, without a compulsory factor for students to complete their evaluations.
In this webinar, Bridget Madden of MassBay Community College will share the innovative approaches that she implements at the college to boost response rates. Join this session to learn MassBay’s “special sauce” recipe, which includes a comprehensive communication plan, use of multiple channels (analog and digital) and types of information communicated, and thorough calendaring techniques. These combined “ingredients” help boost student and faculty engagement and overall course evaluation response rates.
Date: Wednesday, October 2, 2024
Time: 2pm Eastern Time
Presented by: Bridget Madden, MassBay Community College
Demandez à un expert ! À propos des taux de réponse et des configurations de projets/rapports dans Blue
Pour faire suite au webinaire d'apprentissage " Configurations de projets et de rapports dans Blue pour diverses approches de gestion des évaluations de cours multi-sections et en équipe " du 7 août, et au webinaire " Comment comprendre les taux de réponse dans les évaluations de cours multi-sections et en équipe " du 18 septembre, les experts en solutions d'Explorance répondront aux questions des participants, Les experts en solutions d'Explorance répondront aux questions que vous aurez soumises au préalable sur les taux de réponse et les configurations de projets/rapports en Blue (les enregistrements des webinaires d'apprentissage du 7 août et du 18 septembre seront disponibles dans les 3 à 5 jours suivant les webinaires d'apprentissage, au cas où vous n'auriez pas pu vous joindre à eux ou que vous aimeriez revisiter le contenu).
Si vous avez des questions que vous aimeriez voir abordées dans ce webinaire d'apprentissage, n'hésitez pas à nous en faire part sur votre formulaire d'inscription ou via le forum de discussion de ce webinaire de la communauté.
Date: Mercredi 25 septembre 2024
Heure: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Heure de l'Est
Présentateurs: L'équipe d'architecture des solutions d'Explorance
Ask an Expert! About Response Rates and Project/Report Set-ups in Blue
As a follow up to the “Project and Report Set-ups in Blue for Various Approaches to Handling Multi-Section and Team-Taught Course Evaluations” learning webinar on August 7, and the “How to Make Sense of Response Rates in Multi-Section and Team-Taught Course Evaluations” on September 18, Explorance solution experts will answer pre-submitted questions** from you on the topics of response rates and project/report set-ups in Blue (the recordings of the August 7 and September 18 learning webinars will be available within 3-5 days after the learning webinars, in case you weren’t able to join or you’d like to revisit the content). Please submit your questions on the registration form below and continue asking questions and discussing this topic in the community discussion forum post.
This learning webinar will also be delivered in French. To register for the French session, please see the separate registration form below.
Date: Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
- September 24, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- September 25, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- September 25, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenters: Explorance's Solutions Architecture Team
Comment interpréter les taux de réponse dans les évaluations de cours multi-sections et en équipe
Dans le webinaire précédent " Configuration de projets et de rapports dans Blue pour diverses approches de gestion des évaluations de cours multi-sections et en équipe ", nous avons parlé de la configuration de projets et de rapports dans Blue pour les évaluations de cours multi-sections et en équipe, ainsi que de la division et de la fusion de cours à l'aide de DIG. Les taux de réponse peuvent être trouvés/surveillés à trois endroits dans Blue (dans le tableau des réponses dans le bloc de rapport inter-catégories, via le moniteur de taux de réponse, et par le biais de la gestion des sujets, etc.) Dans ce webinaire d'apprentissage, nous examinerons les diverses caractéristiques et fonctionnalités de Blue que vous pouvez utiliser pour partager les taux de réponse dans l'effort d'engager les parties prenantes et d'améliorer les taux en général. Joignez-vous à ce webinaire d'apprentissage alors que nous poursuivons la discussion en examinant les façons dont nous pouvons surveiller les taux de réponse tout en comprenant ce que nous rapportons. Nous jetterons également un coup d'œil sur les fonctionnalités améliorées du moniteur de taux de réponse publié dans Blue 9.2.
Si vous avez des questions que vous aimeriez voir abordées dans ce webinaire d'apprentissage, n'hésitez pas à nous en faire part sur votre formulaire d'inscription ou via le forum de discussion de ce webinaire de la communauté.
Date: Mercredi 18 septembre 2024
Heure: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Heure de l'Est
Présentateurs: L'équipe d'architecture des solutions d'Explorance
How to Make Sense of Response Rates in Multi-Section and Team-Taught Course Evaluations
In the previous “Project and Report Set-ups in Blue for Various Approaches to Handling Multi-Section and Team-Taught Course Evaluations” webinar, we talked about project and report set-ups in Blue for multi-section and team-taught course evaluations, as well as splitting and merging courses using DIG. The response rates can be found/monitored in three places in Blue (in the response table in cross-category report block, via the Response Rate Monitor, and through Subject Management, etc.). In this learning webinar, we will look at the various Blue features and functionalities you can use to share response rates in the effort to engage stakeholders and improve rates overall. Join this learning webinar as we continue the discussion reviewing the ways we can monitor response rates while understanding what we’re reporting on. We will also take a look at the enhanced features of the Response Rate Monitor released in Blue 9.2.
If you have any specific questions on this topic that you would like us to consider while preparing for this webinar, please feel free to let us know on your registration form or via this community’s webinar discussion forum post.
This learning webinar will also be delivered in French. To register for the French session, please see the separate registration form below.
Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
- September 17, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- September 18, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- September 18, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenters: Explorance's Solutions Architecture Team
Feedback Culture: How to Enhance Your Student Feedback with Pre-course Surveys
Discover how pre-course surveys help faculty connect with students from Day 1. The University of Pittsburgh’s new Pre-course Survey, launched in Spring 2024, enables instructors to gather formative feedback to set expectations and support student success. This Feedback Culture series session will cover:
- Using pre-course surveys to enhance teaching, response rates, and course design.
- The benefits of timely feedback and restricted report access.
- Gaining buy-in from faculty and administration.
- Customizing surveys and reports with Explorance Blue.
Attendees will also gain access to the Faculty Reflection on Student Feedback worksheet.
Date: Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Time: 1pm Eastern Time
Presented by: Lisa Votodian, University of Pittsburgh
Project and Report Set-ups in Blue for Various Approaches to Handling Multi-Section and Team-Taught Course Evaluations
Pairing definition? Multi-secondary definition? Project and report setups for multi-section and team-taught courses in Blue, as well as using DIG to split/merge courses, are commonly discussed topics. In this learning webinar, Explorance solution experts will share with you the different approaches you can take for multi-section and team-taught courses, and the implications of each approach that you can expect to see, particularly with respect to reporting needs for instructors, course coordinators, deans, and other stakeholders. At the end of this webinar, you will be able to decide on the best approach to use in Blue to meet your reporting needs for multi-section and team-taught courses.
If you have any specific questions on this topic that you would like us to consider while preparing for this webinar, please feel free to let us know on your registration form or via this community’s webinar discussion forum post.
This learning webinar will also be delivered in French. To register for the French session, please see the separate registration form below.
Date: Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
- August 6, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- August 7, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- August 7, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenters: Explorance's Solutions Architecture Team
MLY 2.0 Release Q&A Webinar
Join this release webinar to learn about the new features and functionalities in MLY 2.0. This release provides enhanced widgets functionality, including new Recommendations and Alerts widgets, options to view the most representative comments in widgets, and the ability to breakdown widgets in a top/bottom analysis using two key insights from a dataset, facilitating deeper dives into your qualitative data. We will also share how MLY 2.0 brings intelligent filtering, allowing users to streamline their datasets for analysis.
If you have any MLY 2.0 related questions, please feel free to submit them on the registration form and continue asking questions and discussing this topic in this community discussion forum post.
This learning webinar is scheduled to be delivered three times for our community members in different time zones worldwide. Register in a time zone that best fits your schedule.
This learning webinar will also be delivered in French. To register for the French session, please see the separate registration form below.
Date: Wednesday, July 17 , 2024
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
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- July 16, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- July 17, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- July 17, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presented by: Erika Cost, Explorance
Webinaire de Q&R sur la sortie de Blue 9.2
Dans ce webinaire, nous partagerons les améliorations clés de Blue 9.2 qui comprennent les améliorations dans le moniteur de taux de réponse et les journaux de rapports. L'équipe de produit d'Explorance a aussi soigneusement raffiné les expériences de Blue 9 en se basant sur les précieux feedbacks de nos clients depuis le lancement initial. Joignez-vous à ce webinaire de lancement pour voir comment Blue 9.2 peut élever votre productivité et rationaliser votre flux de travail.
Si vous avez des questions spécifiques sur Blue 9.2 que vous aimeriez voir abordées dans ce webinaire d'apprentissage, n'hésitez pas à nous en faire part sur votre formulaire d'inscription ou via le forum de discussion de ce webinaire de la communauté.
Date: Mercredi 10 juillet 2024
Heure: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Heure de l'Est
Présentateurs: Nitin Sharma, Explorance
Blue 9.2 Release Q&A Webinar
In this release webinar, we will share key enhancements in Blue 9.2 which include the enhancements in Response Rate Monitor and report logs. The Explorance product team has also carefully refined Blue 9 experiences based on the valuable feedback from our customers since the initial release. Join this release webinar to see how Blue 9.2 can elevate your productivity and streamline your workflow.
If you have any specific questions on Blue 9.2 that you would like us to consider while preparing for this webinar, please feel free to let us know on your registration form or via this community’s webinar discussion forum post.
This learning webinar will also be delivered in French. To register for the French session, please see the separate registration form below.
Date: Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
- July 9, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- July 10, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- July 10, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenters: Nitin Sharma, Explorance
Ask an Expert! May 15
In the interactive "Ask an Expert" learning webinar series, Explorance solution experts will answer pre-submitted questions from Blue users on a wide range of topics.** Whether you’ve just started with Blue or you’re an Expert, this webinar is for you! Please submit your questions or topics of interest on the registration form below and one week prior to the scheduled date, the description will be updated with the topics that we will be covering.
If you have any specific questions that you would like us to consider while preparing for this webinar, please feel free to let us know on your registration form or via this community’s webinar discussion forum post.
** while we do our best to cover all questions submitted, at times we may not be able to fit all the content in the time allotted. Rest assured that any question not covered, will be added to the list for the upcoming Ask the Expert webinar.
Based on your input, the topics that will be covered in this session include:
- Blue 8.1.2 patch release notes
- Question Personalization
- Question Bank
- How do I use Blue to run a weekly survey?
This learning webinar is scheduled to be delivered four times for our community members in different time zones worldwide. Register in a time zone that best fits your schedule.
Date: Wednesday, May 15 , 2024
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
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- May 14, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- May 15, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- May 15, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenters: Explorance's Solutions Architecture Team
Feedback Culture: Redefining Teaching Effectiveness with Holistic Evaluation Methods
In this episode, we'll discuss:
- How a combination of self-assessment, peer reviews, and student evaluations of teaching can facilitate diverse perspectives on teaching and learning practices.
- The benefits of a holistic evaluation of teaching for faculty, students, and the institution.
- How the complexities of this comprehensive approach can be simplified and facilitated through frameworks and technology.
Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2024
Time: 12pm Eastern Time
Panelists: Elizabeth Gillis, Dalhousie University, Suzanne Le-May Sheffield, Dalhousie University, Veronica Womack, Northwestern University
Uncovering Valuable Insights from Qualitative Feedback with MLY - Practical Hands-on Tips and Recommended Practices
Join this learning webinar where we'll explore actionable strategies for getting the most out of MLY to uncover valuable insights from qualitative feedback for hidden strengths and areas for improvement. We will share advice on setting effective alert thresholds with the factors to consider and interpreting alert insights. We will also share newly added capabilities in MLY 1.8 to share insights with your stakeholders. By the end of the session, you'll gain practical hands-on tips and recommended practices to enhance your qualitative feedback analysis with MLY. If you have any specific questions on MLY that you would like us to consider while preparing for this webinar, please feel free to let us know on your registration form or via this community’s webinar discussion forum post.
This learning webinar is scheduled to be delivered four times for our community members in different time zones worldwide. Register in a time zone that best fits your schedule. This learning webinar will also be delivered in French. To register for the French session, please see the separate registration form below.
Date: Wednesday, March 27 , 2024
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
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- March 26, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- March 27, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- March 27, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presented by: Explorance's Solutions Architecture Team
Feedback Culture: Mitigating Implicit Bias in Course Evaluations
Date: Wednesday, May 20, 2024
Time: 12pm Eastern Time
Panelists: Julie Schell, University of Texas at Austin, Joyce Chen, The Ohio State University, and Veronica Womack, Northwestern University
How to Use Data Integrity Gateway (DIG) to Make Data Preparation Faster for an Accurate Feedback Process
In this learning webinar, Explorance solution experts will share how the automation and delegation of data preparation tasks using DIG 3.0 can drive an accurate, data-driven feedback collection process. With the enhanced user interface in DIG 3.0, the functionalities such as in-line demographics editing, bulk editing, easier verification of who is assigned to which subject (the entity being evaluated), and more flexibility for tasks (such as the ability to modify subjects after publishing) will make the end user's life easier! Join this webinar to learn about how to use DIG 3.0 for data preparation in your feedback collection process. If you have any specific questions on DIG 3.0 that you would like addressed in this learning webinar, please feel free to let us know on your registration form or via this community’s webinar discussion forum post.
This learning webinar is scheduled to be delivered four times for our community members in different time zones worldwide. Register in a time zone that best fits your schedule.
This learning webinar will also be delivered in French. To register for the French session, please see the separate registration form below.
Date: Wednesday, March 13 , 2024
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
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- March 12, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- March 13, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- March 13, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presented by: Explorance's Solutions Architecture Team
MLY 1.8 Release Q&A Webinar
Join us to learn all about the MLY 1.8 Release! Highlights of this release include sharing analyses with other MLY users, a new “Viewer” user role, enhanced insights into the most relevant comments, and the ability to apply personalized analyses immediately for a more efficient workflow and improved system performance.
This learning webinar is scheduled to be delivered four times for our community members in different time zones worldwide. Register in a time zone that best fits your schedule.
This learning webinar will also be delivered in French. To register for the French session, please see the separate registration form below.
Date: Wednesday, February 28 , 2024
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
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- February 27, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- February 28, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- February 28, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presented by: Erika Cost, Explorance
Explorance World 2024 Conference - Q&A Webinar
Join this informative Q&A webinar, where we will dive into the exciting details of the upcoming Explorance World 2024 Conference – June 26-28! Bring your questions and discover more about this groundbreaking event, whose mission is connecting leaders working with feedback analytics to empower key business initiatives in higher education, Learning and development, and HR sectors.
Agenda Highlights:
- Introduction to Explorance World 2024
- Conference Format Unveiled
- AI and Feedback Integration
- Keynote Reveal
- Networking Opportunities
- Interactive Q&A Session
This learning webinar is scheduled to be delivered four times for our community members in different time zones worldwide. Register in a time zone that best fits your schedule.
This learning webinar will also be delivered in French. To register for the French session, please see the separate registration form below.
Date: Wednesday, February 21 , 2024
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
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- February 20, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- February 21, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- February 21, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenter: Anastasia Tsimiklis, CMO, Explorance
La mise en œuvre du Blue Dashboard est terminée. Quelle est la prochaine étape pour en tirer le meilleur parti ?
Avez-vous terminé la mise en œuvre de votre Blue Dashboard ou avez-vous récemment rejoint votre équipe d'administration de Blue Dashboard et vous êtes curieux de savoir quoi faire ensuite ? Ce webinaire d'apprentissage est conçu pour vous simplifier la vie en vous fournissant une présentation facile à digérer du parcours des données avec Blue Dashboard : de la mise à jour des données de feedback de Blue, à l'engagement des utilisateurs de votre Blue Dashboard, à fournir des informations, telles que les tendances au fil de temps, le tout, pour une prise de décision améliorée basée sur les données. Pour toutes éventuelles questions afin que le Blue Dashboard soit largement adopté et utilisé dans votre établissement, n’hésitez pas à les soumettre dans votre formulaire d’inscription!
Date: Mercredi 7 février 2024
Heure: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Heure de l'Est
Présentateurs: L'équipe d'architecture des solutions d'Explorance
Blue Dashboard Implementation Has Been Completed. What’s Next to Make the Best Use of It?
Have you finished your Blue Dashboard implementation or recently joined your Blue Dashboard Admin team and are curious about what to do next? This learning webinar is built to ease your mind by providing an easy-to-digest walk-through of the data journey with Blue Dashboard from updating the feedback data from Blue, to engaging your Blue Dashboard users, to delivering insights such as trends over time to the various stakeholders for enhanced data-driven decision making. For specific questions that you may have on Blue Dashboard to make it widely adopted and used in your institution, don’t hesitate to submit them in your registration form!
This learning webinar is scheduled to be delivered four times for our community members in different time zones worldwide. Register in a time zone that best fits your schedule.
This learning webinar will also be delivered in French. To register for the French session, please see the separate registration form below.
Date: Wednesday, February 7 , 2024
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
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- February 6, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- February 7, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- February 7, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenters: Explorance's Solutions Architecture Team
Your Journey as a Blue 360 Administrator (Episode 3 of 3): Automation and Management
Now that you plan ahead for actionable insights you want to glean from your 360 evaluations, and strategize ways to encourage stakeholder engagement throughout the 360 process, in this last episode of this 3-part learning webinar series, we will share with you tips for the process optimization step in your journey as a Blue 360 Administrator – automation and management. Join this webinar to learn about important features and functionalities that make end-to-end automation and management with Blue 360 efficient, such as:
- Response rate management
- Rater network management
- Data change management (such as incoming changes of data from the HRIS or from ad hoc data change requests)
- Notification and schedule management
Date: Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
- December 12, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- December 13, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- December 13, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenters: Dean Coologeorgen and Mohammed Sheraidah, Explorance
Blue 9 : Plateforme d'analyse de retour d'expérience de nouvelle génération
Dans ce webinaire, nous couvrirons toutes les nouvelles expériences et les améliorations fondamentales introduites avec Blue 9. Nous passerons en revue le nouveau Blue Home qui est configurable et personnalisable, jusqu'à la toute nouvelle authentification Explorance/ les SSO élargis et plus encore !
Date: Mercredi 29 novembre 2023
Heure: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Heure de l'Est
Présentateurs: Nitin Sharma and Alexandra Rascanu, Explorance
Blue 9: Next Generation Feedback Analytics Platform
In this release webinar, we will cover all the new experiences and foundational improvements introduced with Blue 9. We will review the new Blue Home that’s configurable and personalizable, to the all-new Explorance authentication/expanded SSOs and more!
This learning webinar will also be delivered in French. To register for the French session, please see the separate registration form below.
Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2023
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
- November 28, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- November 29, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- November 29, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenters: Nitin Sharma and Alexandra Rascanu, Explorance
Ask an Expert! November 2023
In the interactive "Ask an Expert" learning webinar series, Explorance solution experts will answer pre-submitted questions from Blue users on a wide range of topics. We encourage you to submit your questions or topics of interest on the registration form below to help tailor this live session to best suit your needs.
Planned topics to cover in this "Ask an Expert" session include:
- DRA and missing hierarchy nodes and its impact on aggregate reporting
- Response rate trending & tracking
- Including task dates in notifications
- Centralized email with Blue 8 schedules
This learning webinar is scheduled to be delivered four times for our community members in different time zones worldwide. Register in a time zone that best fits your schedule.
This learning webinar will also be delivered in French. To register for the French session, please see the separate registration form below.
Date: Wednesday, November 15 , 2023
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
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- November 14, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- November 15, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- November 15, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenters: Explorance's Solutions Architecture Team
Your Journey as a Blue 360 Administrator (Episode 2 of 3): Encouraging Engagement
In Episode 2 of this 3-part learning webinar series, we will share with you tips for the second step in your journey as a Blue 360 Administrator – engaging stakeholders and end-users (the raters) in the 360 process. Join this webinar to learn answers to key questions that are important for increasing engagement, such as:
- How do I engage the user (rater) in the 360 process?
- How can rater selection flexibility and business rules enforcement increase engagement?
- How can self-enrollment and opt-out functionalities help limit survey fatigue?
- How can allowing a mix of identified and non-identified respondents be beneficial?
- How can automated and customized email notifications improve engagement?
- How can live response monitoring and evaluation link sharing (such as with QR codes or by re-sending the evaluation invitation through Subject Management) help increase engagement?
Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2023
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
- November 7, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- November 8, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- November 8, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenters: Dean Coologeorgen and Mohammed Sheraidah, Explorance
Ask the Experts! October 2023
In the interactive "Ask the Experts" learning webinar series, Explorance solution experts will answer pre-submitted questions from Blue users on a wide range of topics. We encourage you to submit your questions or topics of interest on the registration form below to help tailor this live session to best suit your needs.
This learning webinar is scheduled to be delivered four times for our community members in different time zones worldwide. Register in a time zone that best fits your schedule.
This learning webinar will also be delivered in French. To register for the French session, please see the separate registration form below.
Date: Wednesday, October 18 , 2023
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
- October 17, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- October 18, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- October 18, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenters: Explorance's Solutions Architecture Team
Your Journey as a Blue 360 Administrator (Episode 1 of 3): Planning Ahead for Actionable Insights
In Episode 1 of this 3-part learning webinar series, we will share with you tips for the first step in your journey as a Blue 360 Administrator – planning ahead for actionable insights. Join this webinar to learn answers to key questions that are important when beginning your journey as a Blue 360 Administrator, such as:
- What operational reports should I consider to help proactively increase response rates and stakeholder engagement at all levels throughout the 360 process?
- What strategic reports should I consider to provide summarized areas of development and strengths for individuals (ie. Johari window), as well as for ranking of competencies in aggregate reports at department level (such as top 3 strengths and top 3 weaknesses) to identify areas for improvement and strengths to continue building on?
- How can I utilize the Dashboard’s interactive features and functionalities to view trends in the data at the individual and aggregate level, compare data with benchmarks and across departments, and monitor the effectiveness of our feedback-informed improvement actions over time?
Date: Wednesday, October 4, 2023
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
- October 3, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- October 4, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- October 4, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenters: Dean Coologeorgen and Mohammed Sheraidah, Explorance
Data Journey with Blue (Episode 3 of 3): End-to-End Automation & Delegation for Engagement
Now that you know how to prepare your data and how to sync the data to Blue, in this last episode of this 3-part learning webinar series, we will share with you tips for the final step in your data journey with Blue - end-to-end automation and delegation. Join this webinar to learn about important features and functionalities that make end-to-end automation and delegation with Blue efficient, such as:
- Giving permissions to change the data within the project (Subject Management)
- Automating the report delivery
- Updating projects after expiry - when and how to do it
- To be continued!
This learning webinar will also be delivered in French. To register for the French session, please see the separate registration form below.
Date: Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
- September 26, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- September 27, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- September 27, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenters: Fernando Sanchez and Krimo Bouaou, Explorance Presenters: Explorance's Solutions Architecture Team
Ask the Experts! September 2023
In the interactive "Ask the Experts" learning webinar series, Explorance solution experts will answer pre-submitted questions from Blue users on a wide range of topics. We encourage you to submit your questions or topics of interest on the registration form below to help tailor this live session to best suit your needs.
This learning webinar will also be delivered in French. To register for the French session, please see the separate registration form below.
Date: Wednesday, September 20 , 2023
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
- September 19, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- September 20, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- September 20, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenters: Explorance's Solutions Architecture Team
BlueML Dashboard 1.7 Release: More Efficient Workflows to Generate Faster, Deeper Insights
Join us to learn all about the BlueML Dashboard 1.7 release! Highlights of this release include one-stop multi-modal analysis, the ability to see key insights in the new multi-modal Overview, advanced filtering options, a French User Interface (UI), and more!
A French version of this session will also be held. Please see the webinar listed below to register.
Date: Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
- September 5, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- September 6, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- September 6, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenter: Erika Cost, Global Manager, Explorance Training Academy
Data Journey with Blue (Episode 2 of 3): Syncing the Data to Blue
In Episode 2 of this 3-part learning webinar series, we will share with you tips for the second step in your data journey with Blue - syncing your data to Blue. Join this webinar to learn answers to key questions that are important in syncing the data to Blue, such as:
- What is data syncing and how does it work?
- How do I automate the data feed to Blue?
- To sync or not to sync? Not all data needs to be synced. How to go about “smart syncing of data”.
- What is project level filtering and how does it help?
- How do I add or delete data within the project and what is the impact I need to be aware of?
- How will the addition and deletion of data in the SIS impact your projects and reports?
This learning webinar will also be delivered in French. To register for the French session, please see the separate registration form below.
Date: Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
- July 11, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- July 12, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- July 12, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenters: Fernando Sanchez and Krimo Bouaou, Explorance
Ask the Experts! June 2023
In the interactive "Ask the Experts" learning webinar series, Explorance solution experts will answer pre-submitted questions from Blue users on a wide range of topics. In this June session, we will also share product enhancements that have been introduced with the Blue 8.1.1 release. We encourage you to submit your questions or topics of interest on the registration form below to help tailor this live session to best suit your needs.
A French version of this "Ask the Experts" session will also be held. Please see the webinar listed below to register.
Date: Thursday, June 29, 2023
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
- June 28, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- June 29, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- June 29, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenters: Mohammed Sheraidah, Krimo Bouaou, and Rittu Seghal, Explorance
Response Rate Optimization: Engaging Faculty and Students to Improve Response Rates
Given the importance of response rates in the validity of course evaluation results, institutions work hard for response rate optimization. And various research findings indicate that engagement of faculty and students are critical components in achieving higher response rates. In this webinar, we will show you various Blue features and functionalities used by institutions to increase engagement of faculty and students with tips for sharing response rates – how, where, when, and with whom. We will demystify common questions around Response Rate Monitor Dashboard (RRMD), Subject Management (SM), Feedback View, Blue Dashboard and reports in engaging stakeholders to improve response rates.
Date: Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
- June 20, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- June 21, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- June 21, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenters: Alexandra Rascanu, Nitin Sharma, and Mohammed Sheraidah, Explorance
Data Journey with Blue (Episode 1 of 3): Preparing the Data
In Episode 1 of this 3-part learning webinar series, we will share with you tips for the first step in your data journey with Blue - preparing the data. Join this webinar to learn answers to key questions that are important in preparing the data, such as:
- How do I connect to Blue (Manual, Direct Feed from the SIS through Data Sync Tool (DST), through an SFTP site)?
- What if I need to bring more data from another source? How can Extension blocks be of help?
- What are the advantages of minimizing the number of datasources?
- Where does DIG fit in the picture?
This learning webinar will also be delivered in French. To register for the French session, please see the separate registration form below.
Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
- June 13, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- June 14, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- June 14, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenters: Fernando Sanchez and Krimo Bouaou, Explorance
Course Evaluations at Boise State University: A case study in “‘Blue’ Turf Thinking”
Over the past few years, Boise State University has been making a concerted effort to evaluate and improve their enterprise course evaluation system. Stakeholders in Academic Affairs and Information Technology looked at internal systems and processes as well as the web-based software tool that delivered the evaluations. This presentation describes Boise State’s transition to Blue from a legacy system (while also transitioning support and administration to central IT) and how it presented opportunities to examine and improve many of their practices, while introducing value adds like universal questions.
In this webinar you will learn about the history of course evaluations at Boise State, what led to transition to Blue, learning about the implementation and how the University has embraced it’s new course evaluation tool.
Date: Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Time: 1pm EST
Presented by: Dr. Leif Nelson and Michael Ellis, Boise State University
Blue Dashboard 4.0 Release Webinar: A Guided Tour of the New User Experience
The Blue Dashboard 4.0 release brings a totally new and exciting look to the user experience. Join us for a webinar that shows off and walks through the new interface. Little has changed in the administration interface for Blue Administrators, but a few changes of note will be presented.
Date: Thursday, May 11, 2023
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
- May 10, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- May 11, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- May 11, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenter: David Norenberg, Product Training Specialist, Explorance
Handling Comments of Concern – Practices, Policies, Competency
Qualitative comments in course evaluations give details to insights contextualizing quantitative data, and more and more institutions are utilizing text-analytics technology such as Blue Text Analytics and BlueML to analyze qualitative comments. One of the capabilities that such text-analytics technology provides is detection of potentially concerning comments - overly negative, offensive, threatening, harassing, biased, and/or indicators of potential misconduct. The key question asked was “Are institutions ready to handle such comments of concern, as they are detected?” In this virtual panel session, panelists will discuss challenges in handling such potentially concerning comments and strategies on how to go about addressing such challenges, such as expanding or clarifying policies and procedures, identifying needed competencies for various stake holders (students, faculty, admin staff, etc), and ensuring that relevant training and communications are available.
Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Time: 4pm Eastern Time
Panelists: Brad Wuetherick, UBC; Lisa Votodian, University of Pittsburgh; Meagan Morrissey, University of Newcastle
Moderator: Pete Baccile, Explorance
Transforming Module Reports into Valuable Quality Assurance Resources
The standard Blue module surveys provide useful results of the student responses for actionable insights. But can we get them to work harder for us? Join the webinar to discover how Birkbeck have added greater context and providing a more rounded picture of the module and its place in the wider degree programme. Explore how module evaluation reports can become valuable quality assurance resources through:
- Using the closing-the-loop functionality to provide feedback back to students
- Enabling module leaders to write their own contemporaneous thoughts to assist with module development
- Enabling module leaders to provide context for their manager and head of department
- Grouping module results into Programme-wide reports
- Incorporating other module and programme data to provide greater context.
Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Time: 10am EST / 3pm BST
Presented by: Garmon ap Garth, Birkbeck University of London
Unlocking the Complexity of Student Evaluations in Medical Schools
Obtaining student feedback for medical and health sciences is critical and differs from other university programs due to specific scenarios such as different starting dates, block rotations, and multiple instructors. Student feedback gathering in medical and health schools faces a variety of challenges, including data accuracy and preparation, leveraging multiple data sources, monitoring new and dropped students, and new teacher assignments. A centralized system that can handle all surveys and evaluations in one project does not only increases efficiency but may be necessary for student success.
In this Panel discussion, we will go over various response rates techniques such as LMS integration, Reminders, the availability of in-class reminders, and QR codes. In addition, we will demonstrate how to disseminate reports at various levels, such as instructor, program, and/or school. Join us where our respected panelists will share their institution's best practices and techniques for medical school evaluations.
Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2023
Time: 11am Dubai Time
Panelists: Dr. Heba Ismail, Dubai Medical College for Girls, Dr. Adrian Stanley, Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dr. Maher Alandiyjany, Batterjee Medical College
Blue Dashboard 4.0 – Uncovering Essential Insights
Join this webinar to learn about the all-new Blue Dashboard 4.0. Get a sneak peek at the new UI/UX and functionalities to help you explore your data, including:
- Heatmapping
- Streamlined Filters
- Widget-based Summary View
- and much more...
Date: Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
- March 28, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- March 29, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- March 29, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenters: Francois Beneteau, Explorance
Data to Insights – Part 2: How Washburn School of Nursing (SON) Transforms Data into Actionable Insights for Purposeful Improvements
You’ve collected your feedback data; now how do you turn it into actionable insights to improve the student learning experience, teaching effectiveness, and operational efficiencies? Join this webinar (part 2 of 2) to learn how Washburn SON makes sense of data from various sources (SIS, LMS, Blue, etc.) in Blue Dashboard and data warehouse in a way for various stakeholders to glean insights and take actions, using data from Blue as a basis for meta-analysis. Washburn SON will also share how the outputs from Blue are integrated to inform accreditation readiness and view improvement trends over time to improve student learning outcomes.
Date: Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Time: 2pm Eastern Time
Presented By: Linda Merillat, Washburn University, School of Nursing
Blue 8.1: A Modernized Reporting Experience and More!
Join us to learn all about the Blue 8.1 release, including a modernized reporting administrator and end-user experience, public survey links available for 360 (Subject Definition) projects, an updated Item Bank that allows for the Cascaded Evaluation Framework, and more!
Date: Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
- February 28, 8pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- March 1, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- March 1, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenters: Dave Sykes, Product Training Specialist, Explorance Training Academy, Explorance
Data to Insights – Part 1: How Washburn School of Nursing (SON) Draws on the Power of Blue to Collect (“Project Set-ups”) and Report on Data (“Report Set-ups”) for Actionable Insights
Join this webinar (part 1 of 2) to learn how Washburn SON draws on the power of Blue with various project set-ups for a wide range of evaluations (such as end-of-term courses, end-of-program, peer-to-peer, agency-preceptor, and faculty workshop evaluations) to provide a more holistic view of student and faculty feedback for actionable insights. Washburn SON will also share how they bring scalability and consistency to their evaluations with the use of Blue Question Bank, to connect specific learning objectives as questions in course evaluations. In addition, you will learn how Washburn SON reports on this data at various levels (including reports for Instructors, Course Coordinators, Program Directors, Associate Deans, and Dean/Director of Assessments).
Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Time: 2pm Eastern Time
Presented By: Linda Merillat, Washburn University, School of Nursing
Scheduling Different Course-Evaluation Periods and Emails in One Project
Blue 8’s scheduling functionality allows an institution to handle different course-evaluation periods and emails in one project with enhanced automation and flexibility for student engagement. As Bluenotes Community members shared their experiences in using Blue 8’s scheduling and email functionalities at the recent in-person Bluenotes GLOBAL 2022 conference, they are continuing the exchange of various business scenarios and ideas for problem solving together. In this webinar, we will show various real-world business scenarios the Bluenotes Community members are discussing with best practices for Blue 8.
Date: Wednesday, November 9, 2022
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
- November 8, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- November 9, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- November 9, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenter: Rittu Sehgal, Customer Success Manager, Explorance, supported by Mohammed Sheraidah, Executive Solution Architect, Explorance
New Blue Training Experience!
Join us to learn all about the recent updates to Blue Administrator training, including a modernized elearning platform, focused learning on Blue concepts and reporting, a new LMS and more!
Date: Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
- November 1, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- November 2, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- November 2, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenters: David Norenberg, Product Training Specialist, Explorance and Erika Cost, Global Manager, Explorance Training Academy, Explorance
“A Significant Improvement”: Using Blue to Support Enhancement and Closing the Loop Activities
The University of Worcester has just completed its first 12 months of using Blue following a successful implementation project. This presentation will cover the positive impacts and some challenges of launching Blue across the institution, with a particular focus on how we are using the system to improve communications and feedback to students. We will examine 3 key projects that have been carried out, and identify how Blue is supporting wider goals around enhancement and the student experience.
Date: Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Time: 12:00pm GMT (8:00am ET)
Presenter: University of Worcester
Blue Reports, Blue Dashboard, and Data Exports: What to Use When
A wide range of reporting and analytics needs for different stakeholders requires various approaches in higher-education institutions. In this webinar, our product experts will provide clarity on what to use when - what situations and business scenarios are best suited for leveraging Blue Reports, Blue Dashboard, and/or Data Exports. Join this webinar to learn how the insights gained through the strengths of Blue Reports, Blue Dashboard, and Data Exports will help benefit and fulfill the key reporting and analytics needs of stakeholders at every level in your institution.
Date: Wednesday, October 19, 2022
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
- October 18, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- October 19, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- October 19, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenters: Long Hua, VP Product Management, Mohammed Sheraidah, Executive Solution Architect, and Nitin Sharma, VP Product, Explorance
Beyond Dashboards: How We Changed the Fabric of Decision Making
Years in the making, Sheridan's integrated suite of intelligence tools has transformed leadership's ability to consistently make faster, better decisions in high stakes situations, bringing IR to the fore in terms of visibility, credibility and strategic import. In the post-pandemic era of change and disruption, this work has tangibly improved our ability to successfully identify and adjust to changing market conditions. Beautifully designed and built on myriad interconnected data sets and custom predictive models, the suite covers all aspects of the institution’s business – administrative and academic, at strategic, tactical and operational levels – allowing users to quickly identify, contextualize and action issues and opportunities. In this presentation we take you from specific visualizations to big picture, reviewing concrete examples of how these tools drive success, and demonstrating how we delivered on our promise to accelerate decision making with more than 'just another dashboard.'
Date: Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Time: 2:00pm Eastern Time
Presenters: Dean Langan & Mark Neumann, Sheridan College
Effective Student Course Evaluations and Question Personalization for Instructors
Question Personalization allows instructors to add custom questions to their student course evaluations. In this session, we’ll discuss practical tips on how faculty can write effective questions and how the Center for Teaching and Learning at Washington University in St. Louis supports instructors interested in Question Personalization.
Date: Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Time: 2:00pm Eastern Time
Presenters: Rick Moore, Ph.D., Assistant Director of Assessment and Evaluation & Kim Daniels, Registrar Services Specialist, Washington University in St. Louis
BlueML 1.5 Release Q&A Webinar
Join us to learn all about the BlueML 1.5 release! Highlights of this release include updates to the Polarity and Recommendations Models, a new Alerts (Beta) model, enhanced navigation features, and more!
Date: Wednesday, June 1, 2022
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
- May 31, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- June 1, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- June 1, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenter: Erika Cost, Global Training Manager, Explorance
Students' Feedback - How to Engage your Students and Increase Response Rates
When it comes to collecting students’ feedback from various surveys, many universities are often preoccupied with the response rate While the participation rate is important from a statistical point of view, the quality of feedback is what will help institutions in obtaining key student insights and making informed decisions.
To achieve that, it is essential to engage all stakeholders in the feedback process. This can be achieved by providing students with various feedback channels while also highlighting the significance of their voice in elevating the learning experience. Faculty, course coordinators, and program managers, on the other hand, should have the ability to track live response rates, obtain feedback on key initiatives and view timely reports. Facilitating a better engagement for all stakeholders via a more unified process will not only increase the response rate but will also fuel a cycle of continuous improvement.
Date: May 24, 2022
Time: 10AM KSA, 11AM UAE, 3PM Singapore
Presenter: Samer Jaffar, GM MENA & Singapore & Aya Alruzzi, Software Implementation Specialist, Explorance
Beyond Course Evaluations: Matching Feedback Needs to Blue Project Types
Are you getting comfortable with Blue? Are you wondering if you can use Blue to manage other feedback projects, but just aren't sure where to start? This is the webinar for you! In this interactive webinar, we will review the project types and how they work. Then, we'll explore unique scenarios and imagine ways to use Blue to make them happen.
Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule in your time zone.
- May 17, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- May 18, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- May 18, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenter: David Norenberg, Product Training Specialist, Explorance
Blue Dashboard 3.2: Supporting Multiple Dashboards and More!
As mentioned in the Blue Dashboard 3.1 webinar, version 3.2 provides the ability to host multiple dashboards. Well, 3.2 is here and that’s not all it does! Along with 3.2 comes a collection of new features that improve user experience. This webinar will illustrate the new functionalities and improvements.
Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule in your time zone.
- April 26, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- April 27, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- April 27, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenter: David Norenberg, Product Training Specialist, Explorance
Wading Through Words: Finding Insights in Qualitative Data with BlueML
Responses to open ended questions are rich in feedback, but the sheer volume makes it difficult to derive meaningful conclusions. This webinar recording shows how to ask questions of your data, such as what students most appreciate about their instructors, or students’ views on course changes to improve their learning experience, and how those may differ between students who provide low vs. high quantitative scores. With BlueML, qualitative data can be distilled into actionable insights for anyone striving toward teaching excellence and greater student success, such as deans, program directors, course coordinators and curriculum committees.
Date: Thursday, April 14, 2022
Presenter: Stephanie Klein, Principal Consultant, Explorance
Learn How BlueX Surveys Help Instructors Get Feedback From Students, Seamlessly Integrated with Canvas LMS
BlueX is a simple and effective way to manage surveys through seamless integration with the Canvas Learning Management System (LMS). With BlueX, instructors can create a wide variety of surveys within a familiar user experience, and much more. Join this interactive webinar to see firsthand how institutions can help instructors maximize student engagement with Canvas-LMS-integrated BlueX, by:
- An engaging interactive experience
- Ease of access and interaction through the LMS
- True accessibility
- Pop-ups, assignments, and grade pathways
Date: Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Time: 10am EDT
Presenters: Mohammed Sheraidah and Nitin Sharma, Explorance
Bluenotes Community March Meetup to Discuss Guidelines for Instructors in Interpreting and Reporting Results
Over the past few years, Bluenotes Community members have identified the need for consistent recommendations and guidelines to help instructors interpret evaluation/assessment data to effectively inform teaching and course planning. A group of thought-leading practitioners in the Bluenotes Reporting & Analytics Community have collaborated to build a document of guidelines which centers around a common framework of language associated with reporting of evaluation data - the "Guidelines for Instructors in Interpreting and Reporting Quantitative Feedback" document and the "Guidelines for Instructors in Interpreting and Reporting Qualitative Feedback" document.
We'd like to invite you to meet monthly, starting January 2022 through June 2022, to further develop this document by incorporating feedback from you in Blue-using institutions around the world. The final result will be shared at the Bluenotes GLOBAL 2022 conference in Chicago (July 30-August 3, 2022).
Facilitator and Co-author of the Guidelines: John Jordi, PhD., University of Florida
Enhancing Quality through Management and Reporting of High Volume of Surveys: GMU's Success Story
View this webinar recording to learn best practices implemented at the Gulf Medical University on how several surveys and evaluations were administered across different medical and healthcare programs. The webinar also highlights how the results of these evaluations helped in addressing the accreditation standards at both local and international levels and hence fostered the quality assurance system at GMU. The webinar reflects on various features of Blue that were used in:
- Managing high volume of surveys versatile in scope
- Engaging academic teams in enhancing response rates
- Reporting the evaluation results to meet the customized requirements from the stakeholder
- New and enhanced features used for effective reporting of evaluation results
Date: Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Time: 2:00pm KSA / 3:00pm UAE
Presenters: Prof. Sherief Khalifa & Dr. Syeda Asma Fatima, Gulf Medical University
Automatisation des Processus de Rétroaction avec Blue (Automating End-to-End Feedback Processes in Blue)
Blue offre un grand nombre de caractéristiques et de fonctionnalités qui permettent à vos processus de rétroaction d'être entièrement automatisés. Dans ce webinaire, nous démontrerons comment Blue peut être utilisé pour vous aider à automatiser vos processus de rétroaction du commencement à la fin. Nous discuterons des considérations dans le processus de mise en œuvre, des stratégies de planification et de synchronisation, de l'utilisation des données démographiques et des seuils dans la génération et la distribution des rapports, et bien plus encore.
(Blue provides a rich set of features and functionalities that enable your feedback processes to be fully automated. Life happens and things change: people are hired and leave, dates change, and expectations shift. In this webinar, we will learn how Blue can be leveraged to help you automate your feedback processes from beginning to end. We will be discussing considerations in the implementation process, scheduling and timing strategies, use of demographic data and thresholds in report generation and distribution, and much more.)
Date: Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Time: 2pm CET (Paris) | 8am EST
Presenters: Francois Beneteau, VP Sales Enablement, Explorance
Share and Ask the Expert: Subject Management in Blue 8
Organizations use Subject Management (SM) to provide controls and ways to engage in a feedback process. In this webinar, we want to harness the power of collective knowledge and provide a space where YOU can share how you use SM. Through example sharing, attendees may find new ideas that can be integrated into their own feedback projects. Explorance's Executive Solution Architect will lead the conversation, share examples from his experience, and can also answer any questions on SM.
Presenter: Mohammed Sheraidah, Executive Solution Architect, Explorance
How Blue is Helping in Assessing the Quality of Education in AUC
At its best, high-quality assessments provides actionable insights to inform curriculum and instructional decisions that would facilitate in assessing and improving the Quality of Education. The first step is to vet and design relevant, standards-based surveys and evaluations that can be used to measure satisfaction and effectiveness at the different stages of the student’s learning journey. Quality Assurance and Institutional Research departments works side by side with the Information technology department to build up these well-structured surveys at AUC.
View this webinar recording to learn AUC's best practices on how they have partnered with Explorance to leverage the Blue platform to:
- Enhance the process of designing and publishing different types of surveys.
- Overcome previous challenges with regards to stakeholders’ engagement.
- Design comprehensive reporting, including longitudinal analysis.
- Disseminate timely reports based on the institution’s hierarchy.
Presenter: Nouran Maher, Director, Tech Solutions, The American University in Cairo (AUC)
Blue Dashboard 3.1.0 Release Q&A Webinar: New Functions and Enhancements
In its latest iteration, Blue Dashboard adds the ability to view 360 (subject definition) projects, provides an enhanced end user experience, and much more! This recorded update webinar showcases the new functionalities and other improvements in Blue Dashboard 3.1.0.
Presenter: David Norenberg, Product Training Specialist, Explorance
Leveraging LTI for a BlueX Surveys to Canvas Experience
With BlueX, you will be able to create the most engaging and creative surveys with ease. In this webinar, we will show you how to implement your surveys into Canvas with the BlueX Survey LTI. We will also demonstrate how to embed BlueX access points within Canvas, as well as how to utilize additional engagement features such as pop-up notifications, course/grade block, assignment, calendar reminder, to-do list, and more. View this recorded webinar to experience BlueX in Canvas.
Time: December 8, 2:00pm EST
Presenters: Michael Weisman and Francois Beneteau, Explorance
BlueX 1.8 Release Q&A Webinar
BlueX 1.8 is on its way! In this release Q&A webinar, we will discuss the latest additions and enhancements BlueX will be discussed, including:
- Enhanced ranking question
- Event-based invitations
- Relative email schedules
- Enhanced constant
- BlueX available in French
Time: December 2, 2:00pm EDT & December 2, 3:00pm AEDT
Presenter: Dave Sykes, Product Training Specialist, Explorance
Survey Emails as an Effective Tool for Improving Response Rates: Sharing Email HTML Codes
Survey invitation and reminder emails can positively impact response rates. Many Bluenotes community members expressed their interest in learning about HTML codes used in survey emails. In this webinar, University of Florida will share various email HTML codes to make survey invitation and reminder emails more effective.
Time: December 1, 1:00pm Eastern Time
Presenter: John Jordi, University of Florida
How to Create an Annual Report in Blue when Course-Evaluation Projects to be Combined Have Different Questions
Academic institutions listen to students, via Student Evaluations of Teaching (also known in various terms such as course evaluations and module evaluations), at the end of a semester. As you do so, stakeholders may want to see an annual report that combines the results of the semesters in a particular academic year. You can use a Blue functionality called “project mapping” to do so. However, what if you have updated or added a few questions in the survey during the second semester? Can we have both versions of the questions and their responses in the annual report? In other words, can we map projects with different question blocks in Blue? Khwarizmi International College (KIC) was able to do so in Blue. In this webinar, KIC will share with you how you can “map” projects with different questions in Blue to produce an annual report that includes results on all questions.
Time: December 1, 4:00pm UAE Gulf Standard Time; 7:00am Eastern Time
Presenter: Anjali Rathod, Institutional Quality, Effectiveness and Assurance, Khwarizmi International College
Strategies to Enhance Course Evaluation Ecosystem: Lessons Learned at NUS
Student feedback on teaching (SFT) gather information and evaluate faculty for personnel decisions (Spooren & Christiaens, 2016; Darwin, 2017; Hornstein, 2017; Linse, 2017). These evaluations primarily capture students’ perception of their experience and satisfaction with teachers (and teaching), rather than teaching effectiveness. In 2017, the National University of Singapore (NUS) transitioned its centralized university-wide course evaluations (known as the SFT system) from an in-house online system to an automated online system using Blue.
In this webinar, we share the planning process, insights gained, and strategies employed in the implementation of a university-wide transition within a condensed timeline. First, we describe the lessons learned in terms of the importance of aligning key objectives of the exercise to the larger purpose, collaborating and engaging with the community, educating and engaging students, and building sustainable processes. Second, we share our experience with reporting and the approaches adopted to use feedback data in the overall analytics strategy of your institution. Finally, we end with an overview of our plans for the future.
Presenters: Kiruthika Ragupathi and Beh Keng Khim, National University of Singapore
Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting – How to Identify and Prevent Common Issues in Blue
Why aren’t my emails going out? Why aren’t students able to access the evaluation forms? Why is the wrong teacher being evaluated? Why are my report viewers all wrong? How do I get Dynamic Report Access to work? In this webinar, we will showed you how to verify, check, and test your data to prevent common issues when running projects in Blue. View this webinar recording to learn how to identify other common configuration issues and what to do to prevent them. These tips and tricks will help to ensure a successful course evaluation process and improve your day-to-day efficiencies when administering Blue.
Presenter: Margot MacNutt, Training Manager, Explorance
Best Practices for Integrating the Student's Voice as an Integral Part of Improving the Learning Experience
At a time when technology has become an integral part of our daily lives, and while students of this millennium are described as tech-savvy, fast-paced individuals who communicate with each other quickly and electronically, most educational institutions still face the challenge of polling students effectively.
This webinar discusses the best ways to elicit students’ opinions in a successful and continuous way, so that the students’ voice represents their impression of the development of the learning journey and their awareness of the outcomes of lessons and curricula. This webinar also focuses on how to achieve positive returns to expectations so that all stakeholders (student, teacher, course coordinator) participate in a sustainable and continuous improvement cycle.
Presenters:
- Prof. Maysaa Al Qurashi, Vice-Rector of Planning, Development and Quality, Saudi Electronic University (SEU)
- Suzan Abu Shakra, Faculty Affairs Manager, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST)
- Samer Jaffar, General Manager, MENA and Singapore, Explorance
Course Evaluations, Peer Reviews, and Self-assessment: a Unified Approach to Holistic Teaching Feedback
By gathering feedback from course evaluations, peer reviews, and a self-assessment together, institutions can now strengthen a system to define, develop, evaluate, refine, and finally reward teaching excellence, as well as to ensure that teaching evaluations are equitable, transparent, and aligned to the institution’s teaching excellence guidelines.
View this webinar recording where we demonstrated how Blue can unify feedback inputs to deliver actionable insights, while simplifying teaching evaluations.
Time: November 3, 2:00pm Eastern Timezone
Presenter: Michael Weisman & Francois Beneteau, Explorance
MBRU’s Experiences with Abruptly Transitioning Medical Programs to Distance Learning at the Onset of COVID-19
This presentation shed light on the rapid transition to distance learning of a postgraduate dental medicine and an undergraduate medical program at the Mohammad Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU). An action research approach constituted the foundation of this collaborative effort that involved investigations, reflections, and improvements of practice, through ongoing cycles of planning, acting, observing, and reflecting. Accordingly, existing platforms were leveraged, learning and teaching activities (including but not limited to assessments) were modified, and distance learning was proactively facilitated for all involved stakeholders. A series of convergent mixed methods research studies were conducted to systemically evaluate the experiences. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected, from learners and instructors, using contextualized, tailor-made surveys assembled through the Blue platform. These internally consistent and externally valid data collection tools were made using input provided by the Bluenotes community members. View this webinar recording to learn more about the results and implications.
Time: November 3, 4:00pm Dubai Time; 8:00am Eastern Timezone
Presenters: Professors Ritu Lakhtakia, Dr. Fatemeh Amir Rad, and Farah Otaki, MBRU
Preparing your Data to Take Advantage of Relationship Demographics in Blue
View this webinar recording to learn how to work with relationship demographics to provide more flexibility and control over the course evaluation and reporting processes. Utilizing additional data fields will offer you more options for setting triggers, different types of filters, and other conditional rules. As a result, students can select whom or what to evaluate while providing more granular options for reporting.
Presenter: Krimo Bouaou, Customer Success Specialist, Explorance
The Paradox of Course Evaluations (and How to Solve It) – Insight from the Stockholm School of Economics
Student feedback surveys are an important tool that should support teachers in the development of pedagogical skills and course delivery. They should motivate teachers to keep improving and help identify the measures that would help students to learn even more effectively. Yet, the feedback often ends up being used primarily by management when deciding on which courses and/or teacher positions should be maintained, and by prospective students when choosing between available courses. Instead of improving quality, course evaluations can sometimes exacerbate quality issues. Low satisfaction numbers discourage students from taking courses, which in turn often decreases the allocated resources and as a consequence the possibility of recovering from negative feedback.
How can we confront this paradox?
Generating, collecting, and reporting course evaluations is often a labor-intensive, time-consuming and largely manual process. The majority of the academic year is often spent on "getting evaluations done" which leaves little margins for designing feedback surveys that go beyond course satisfaction and actually take individual teachers' needs into consideration. Further, due to late reporting and hard-to-understand reports, the collected data is in some cases not even used by the teachers, leaving students with the feeling that their feedback is not valued.
Here is a list of topics that institutions often struggle with, and which this webinar will provide practical advice in tackling:
- Flexibility of course questions in accounting for variations in course structure.
- Timely delivery of results to allow teachers to work with feedback while the memory of the course is still fresh.
- Data analysis to help teachers easily identify what they should focus on.
- Integrated reports and dashboards to help heads of institutions focus on key areas for improvement, instead on performance of individual courses/teachers.
- Creating a feedback loop between the students and the teachers which creates transparency while maintaining privacy.
- Adequate response rates to ensure survey results are representative and valid.
Presenters: Assia Viachka - Academic Controller, Kristin Petersmann, PhD - Data Insights Manager, Stockholm School of Economics
Agile and Responsive Feedback at Cardiff University; Failing Fast and Adapting Quickly
At the end of the session attendees will have an understanding of:
- How older universities can adapt legacy approaches to student voice
- The benefits of an agile approach to student voice for both staff and student engagement
- Approaches to designing a scheme for your own institution
What can Students Contribute to Assessment and Improvement of Teaching Quality? University of Saskatchewan’s Journey from Student Evaluation of Teaching to Student Learning Experience Feedback
Increasingly institutions are reflecting on the purposes of student evaluations of teaching, referred to by many names including student ratings of instruction and course evaluations. The numerous terms used to describe these instruments suggest a multitude of potentially conflicting purposes and/or audiences. In this webinar, the University of Saskatchewan will share its journey of shifting its instrument’s focus from evaluations to student learning experience feedback, along with its thoughtful change management efforts including rethinking of its instrument’s purposes and establishing student learning experience feedback policy and related processes for evidencing and assessing teaching quality.
Time: October 6, 2:00pm Eastern Timezone
Presenter: Nancy Turner, PhD, Director Teaching and Learning Enhancement, University of Saskatchewan
BlueML 1.4 Release Q&A Webinar
Join us to learn about updates to BlueML! Highlights of this release include categorization refinements for greater precision in comment analysis, a new homepage design, the ability to create your own topic structure with Views, new widget features, enhanced drill-down capabilities, and more!
Time: September 30, 2:00pm Eastern Timezone
Presenter: Erika Cost, Sr. Consultant, Product Expertise and Training, Explorance
Blue 8.0.2 Release Q&A Webinar
Blue 8.0.2 is available as of August 17. In this short webinar, we will go over the features and enhancements included in Blue 8.0.2. One of our developers will be available for questions following the presentation. Join the webinar to learn and discuss how these new features and enhancements can help your institutions.
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule in your time zone.
- August 17, 9pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- August 18, 8am Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- August 18, 2pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenter: David Norenberg, Product Training Specialist, Explorance
Flip the Script! Using Blue for Course and Program Assessment
Can Blue be used in assessment of courses and programs, in addition to students evaluating courses? Yes! Hennepin Technical College has developed an approach to use Blue in order to provide assessments on a course level and a program level, in a more efficient and effective way for faculty completing their end of term assessments.
Assessing the learning outcomes every term provides Hennepin (especially Deans and Program Directors) with insightful data and student demographic analytics – for example, reports comparing outcomes from a course level to an institutional level for benchmark comparisons. Join this webinar to learn how Hennepin Technical College has implemented Blue for assessment of courses and programs, and how everyone from faculty to deans have benefited.
Time: July 14, 2:00pm Eastern Timezone
Presenters: Shannon Thomas M.B.A., Interim Dean of Technology and Institutional Research, Hennepin Technical College
Feedback Analysis with the Blue Dashboard
The Blue Dashboard (BD) supports data-driven decision making at every level of the organization, with flexible data management rules to distribute the right content to the right audience. Join this webinar to learn how stakeholders in every area of the organization can safely explore and make data-driven decisions in one feedback friendly environment. This webinar will also show you the capabilities included in the upcoming BD 3.0 release, including the Aggregate Feedback Dashboard module which is the space to analyze results at the organizational and per-unit levels in a way that stakeholders in every area of the organization can safely explore and make feedback-informed decisions, as well as dynamic role access for Aggregate Feedback Dashboard to ensure that Aggregate Feedback Dashboard users only access relevant data to their function or role.
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule in your time zone.
- July 6, 9pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- July 7, 8am Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- July 7, 2pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenter: David Norenberg, Explorance Training Academy, Explorance
More About Blue 8 – Dynamic Days, Self-Enrollment, and Answering Your Questions
Continuing with the exploration of Blue 8's features and development, we will cover how Dynamic Days are managed. We will also dive into a new feature that helps admins gather feedback when none or only a portion of an audience is known: Self-Enrollment. Through the use of QR codes, individuals not already invited to a survey or evaluation can scan to access the questionnaire. Finally, we have received many questions about Blue 8, and we will take the opportunity to share some of those questions and their answers during the webinar.
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule in your time zone.
- June 22, 9pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- June 23, 8am Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- June 23, 2pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenter: Erika Cost, Explorance Training Academy, Explorance
Student Service Experience: How using Student ID Cards enables Fast Feedback on Student Services at Somerset
As students at Somerset Community College are using services such as advisor and tutor services, they are able to provide timely feedback for student services on campus, as well as their experiences with tutors and advisors. By integrating student IDs with barcode scanning functionality, student services and Blue, Somerset initiates the student feedback process from each point-of-contact experience. This automated quick feedback process allows Somerset to address any issues as they arise in a timely manner, rather than waiting until the end of the term. Join Somerset’s community-led webinar to learn how you can expand your feedback process to the student service experiences.
Time: June 9, 2:00pm Eastern Timezone
Presenter: Jacob Held, Somerset Community College
How SUTD Reached a 95%+ Response Rate on their Course and Instructor Evaluations in 6 Months
Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) tried to increase the response rate of their Course and Instructor Evaluations over several years with limited success. In this Webinar, SUTD will share how their innovative usage of Blue and University Policies resulted in a 97% response rate in 2020.
Time: May 19, 4:00pm Singapore Timezone
Presenters: Magnus Bengtsson, Lead, Educational Technology, Office of Undergraduate Studies and Raifanah Binte Mohamed Ramli, Senior Associate, Educational Technology, Office of Undergraduate Studies, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Did You Know Blue Could Do That?
Many institutions have applied Blue in creative and innovative ways beyond course evaluations for feedback-informed decisions and a higher level of student experience. In this learning webinar, Candace Girard at Tufts University and Donna Davis at James Mason University are joining together to share how they are using Blue. You will learn how Tufts University uses Blue to retrieve data from OASIS, a clinical scheduling tool, to build reports that feed from multiple areas of OASIS into a single Blue-supported data sync in support of meeting the needs of medical and health sciences. You will also learn how James Madison University uses Blue to manage full-semester courses being divided into multiple four-week rotations. Each rotation covers key components for majors in specific disciplines. Enrollees are divided into smaller groups, simultaneously learning and evaluating each component before rotating to the next.
Time: May 5, 2:00pm Eastern Timezone
Presenters: Candace Girard, Tufts University and Donna Davis, James Mason University
BlueML Onboarding – Interpreting Qualitative Data for Actionable Insights
Qualitative data gives valuable understanding into the “why” behind quantitative scores. However, reading through thousands of comments can be quite exhausting - and how do you then organize those comments into actionable items? BlueML is a specialized text analytics tool built to support experience management. It uses powerful and proprietary machine learning algorithms to automatically detect sentiment and categorize your qualitative feedback, helping you dig into what people are really telling you at scale. This webinar will introduce you to the BlueML models and show you how to interpret actionable insights from the dashboard and is for anyone interested in analyzing qualitative feedback.
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule in your time zone.
- April 27, 9pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- April 28, 8am Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- April 28, 2pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenter: Michael Cochrane, Senior Product Training Specialist, Explorance
Two Roles, One Class: How to Rate a Secondary Subject Twice in One Form
The Instructor Role and triggers were setup for team-taught courses with multiple instructor roles in the same course. While those tools are powerful, our situation required specific questions for roles and, for an individual serving in multiple roles in the same course, those questions needed to be available “twice” in the questionnaire. Additionally, while one role (Instructor) was evaluated by all students, a different role (Facilitator) needed to be selectable to just the students who had this instructor in small group. In this webinar we will present the unique situation we faced as well as illustrate the solution we came up with to allow an instructor to be evaluated twice in the same form.
Time: April 14, 2:00pm Eastern Timezone
Presenters: Christina Pomykal, Program Manager, UNC-Chapel Hill Eshelman School of Pharmacy; Michael Lee Jones, Professional Services Consultant, Explorance
Changing/Updating Task Dates in Published Projects in Blue
Last year, Blue 7.13 introduced the ability to automatically update demographic information in live projects. Allowing such demographic updates after publication was eagerly anticipated. In addition to that functionality came the ability to update Task dates in live projects, and not just static dates, Dynamic Days calculations as well! When date changes need to happen (or happen in the SIS data) they can now be updated in the project and pulled through to update the live tasks. This webinar will walk through the process and particular cases and pitfalls.
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule in your time zone.
- January 26, 9pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- January 27, 8am Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- January 27, 2pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenter: Sara Alkadri, Professional Services Consultant, Explorance
What Can You Do to Increase Course Evaluation Response Rates? Probably A Lot!
What do you have in your toolbox to improve course evaluation response rates? More than what you think! Join this webinar to learn how Douglas College is using what they have in their toolbox to leverage social media with targeted visuals, reminders, and messaging directed towards students, with the aim of enhancing the visibility and use of their Course Feedback tool. You will also hear the future ideas on how they plan to leverage different strategies to help increase awareness and completion of students’ course feedback in the future.
Time: March 10, 2:00pm Eastern Timezone
Presenter: Suheyl Unver, PhD, Manager, Education & Services Research, Douglas College
Diving into Blue 8 Enhancements: Scheduling, Rater Selection, and the Survey Fill Out Experience
This is part one of a two-part learning webinar series presenting key enhancements made to improve the end-user experience in Blue 8. We will be going over changes in the user experience for survey fill out as well as the rater selection for 360 and/or 180 reviews. Additionally, we will present the following features:
- Condition-based scheduling of feedback projects such as course evaluations and 360 reviews
- More messaging opportunities (up to five reminders and a completion message)
- Downloadable certificates of survey completion
- Ability to set the rater participation limit, in other words, how many times a person can be asked to provide feedback
Time: This webinar is offered several times. Select the date and time that works best for you.
Presenter: Michael Cochrane, Senior Product Training Specialist, Explorance
360 Reports: Harnessing the Power of Story Telling
Organizations can present 360 feedback in an efficient story telling manner so that it becomes a mechanism that drives meaningful change. Every type of project possesses its own narrative, and 360-reports can be set up in numerous ways to effectively convey that desired narrative.
Throughout this webinar we will cover real-world examples of reporting structures for individual 360 assessments, team assessments, engagement surveys, culture assessments, and others. We will walk through the layouts, design, and best practices in reports that can enhance insights. Establishing well-structured reports that inform, inspire, and, ultimately, drive better decisions is an asset to any organization.
Time: February 16, 4:00pm Eastern Timezone
Instructor: Erika Cost, David Norenberg, Tyrel Anderson, Explorance
A Dynamic Approach to Implementation of Blue at Strathclyde
The University of Strathclyde will present on the approach taken to implement Explorance Blue through a 2-year project, preceded by University-wide consultation which built on years of previous experience, including a range of approaches and module evaluation pilots across the institution. We will also present the dynamic governance structure which has been adopted for the phased approach to ensure appropriate academic representation and effective collaboration with academic, teaching and professional services colleagues. Blue module evaluation is delivered via integration with Strathclyde’s Moodle-based VLE and adopters of the system at each phase have represented a wide range of disciplines over undergraduate and postgraduate modules, taught both face to face and online. Strathclyde colleagues will report on evaluation to date that is built in to inform subsequent implementation of the system.
Time: February 10, 2:00pm British Timezone; 9:00am Eastern Timezone
Presenters: Brian Green, Caroline Breslin, Jacqueline Jahn, Lorna Robertson | University of Strathclyde
Blue 7.19 Release Q & A
Blue 7.19 is available as of January 26. What’s new in Blue 7.19? In this webinar, we will go over the key new features and enhancements included in Blue 7.19. And the webinar will be open to you for questions. Join the webinar to learn and discuss how these new features and enhancements can help your institutions.
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule in your time zone.
- January 26, 9pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- January 27, 8am Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- January 27, 2pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenter: Michael Cochrane, Senior Training Specialist, Explorance
BlueX Onboarding - Creating: Create Surveys How You Want to with BlueX
BlueX enables you to craft your survey how you want it to look, while asking the questions that are important to you. BlueX features a free-form editor with a drag and drop interface that provides you with unprecedented flexibility to make changes any time you want. Conducting research, taking the pulse of employee engagement, building student engagement into course materials, or creating a newsletter with a reader engagement and feedback gathering capability, the BlueX platform allows you to quickly generate engaging feedback collection solutions.
This learning webinar is Part 1 of BlueX onboarding, covering key BlueX features and functionality to:
- Introduction to BlueX
- Creating a survey in BlueX, including importing questions from Qualtrics
- Building an email campaign
- Publish to go live
Time: This webinar is offered several times. Select the date and time that works best for you.
Presenter: Dave Sykes, Product Training Specialist, Explorance
Shared Insights: A Collective Community Approach to Building a Reports Repository
A central challenge for any institution in managing the course evaluation process is meeting the needs of a diverse set of stakeholders. Competing factors along with technical challenges can make reporting difficult in various governance environments. This webinar is the first initiated by Bluenotes community members to share report examples and instructions for their creation.
In this webinar, Dr. John Jordi at the University of Florida will share anonymized examples of reports developed to meet the needs of various stakeholders (college, department, faculty, and public) and how they created them. As Bluenotes community institutions share anonymized reports and resources, they can access them via the Explorance Help Center in a new shared repository of anonymized report examples and resources. Please join this learning webinar for innovative problem solving with your like-minded Bluenotes community colleagues.
Time: November 18, 2:00pm Eastern Timezone
Presenter: John Jordi, Ph.D., Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Florida
Blue 8: What's New and What's Changing?
Blue 8 is coming with a streamlined user experience for both end users and administrators. In this webinar, we will preview many of the upcoming features and enhancements, including consolidated controls and enhancements for scheduling surveys and notifications, ability to send up to five reminders and a completion notification, optional completion certificates, access to surveys via QR codes, self-enrollment, and more. In addition, we will preview the completely redesigned surveys, question personalization and rater selection forms, and the reimagined subject management. Join this first installment of the Blue 8 Learning Webinar Series! Get a sneak peak, learn about the coming changes, and begin to plan your upgrade.
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes community members in various time zones worldwide. Register in a time zone that best fits your schedule.
Presenters: Michael Cochrane, Senior Training Specialist, Explorance; Margot MacNutt, Training Manager, Explorance
BlueX Onboarding - Managing: Monitor and Manage Responses in BlueX
Once your survey in BlueX is published, BlueX offers a range of tools to monitor and manage response rates in real time with the full visibility to survey participation status. This learning webinar is Part 2 of BlueX onboarding, covering key BlueX features and functionality to:
- Monitoring real time responses
- Managing survey tasks
- Sending email reminders
- Export responses for analysis
Time: This webinar is offered several times. Select the date and time that works best for you.
Instructor: Dave Sykes, Product Training Specialist, Explorance
Automating End-to-End Feedback Processes in Blue
Blue provides a rich set of features and functionalities that enable your feedback processes to be fully automated. Life happens and things change: people are hired and leave, dates change, and expectations shift. In this webinar, we will learn how Blue can be leveraged to help you automate your feedback processes from beginning to end. We will be discussing considerations in the implementation process, scheduling and timing strategies, use of demographic data and thresholds in report generation and distribution, and much more.
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule in your time zone.
- October 27, 9pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- October 28, 8am Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- October 28, 2pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Instructor: Fernando Sanchez, Senior Consultant, Explorance
Welcome Aboard - Bluepulse Onboarding
Bluepulse allows for the integration of live formative feedback in various aspects of educational experiences and day-to-day operations – tactical and strategic. The heart of the activity within Bluepulse is based on a continuous improvement cycle; One can 'check-in' or ask questions to get feedback, can then do follow-up based on the feedback received from others, such as learners, employees, and peers. In this Bluepulse onboarding webinar, you will learn about how to use Bluepulse, as well as the benefits of using it.
Time: This Bluepulse onboarding webinar is scheduled to be delivered multiple times in various time zones, starting May, 2020. Register in a time that best fits your schedule.
Instructor: Michael Cochrane, Senior Product Training Specialist, Explorance
Blue 7.18 Release Q & A
Blue 7.18 is available as of October 20. What’s new in Blue 7.18? In this webinar, we will go over the key new features and enhancements included in Blue 7.18. And the webinar will be open to you for questions. Join the webinar to learn and discuss how these new features and enhancements can help your institutions.
Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule in your time zone.
- October 20, 9pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- October 21, 8am Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- October 21, 2pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in Americas regions
Presenters: Michael Cochrane, Senior Training Specialist, Explorance (North America & European Time Zones); Dave Sykes, Product Training Specialist, Explorance (Australia Pacific Time Zone)