Learning Webinars & Community Meetups

Here you can find all the upcoming learning webinars and upcoming meetups for Regional Bluenotes Chapters and Community Interest Groups, as well as all past learning webinars.

Learning webinars for Bluenotes community members are one example of how you can globally connect and share experiences with improvement in mind. Created and presented by experts from Blue® powered institutions and experts from Explorance, these sessions will give you an opportunity to learn best practices from real Blue users.

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The Blue community is all about learning from one another. Join the long list of Blue institutions that have shared their best practices with their fellow Bluenotes community members. Let us know below if you are interested in presenting the next session.

If you want to explore sharing via a webinar, please contact us at bncommunity@explorance.com.

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Community-Led

Bluenotes Medical & Health Sciences CoP Meetup: October 2

calendarThursday, October 2nd 2025, 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Eastern Timezone2 days remaining

Members in the Bluenotes Medical & Health Sciences community of practice are meeting on Thursday, October 2 at 2pm ET to connect together and continue discussions from Explorance World 2025, sharing current clinical evaluation processes (student evaluations of preceptor, preceptor evaluation of students, etc.) and data preparation, and what to consider in improving the current clinical evaluations (data collection and reporting) with use of Blue.

The MHS community will use this sharing opportunity to start creating a collaborative document of use-cases from other MHS institutions to learn from one another and inspire new ways to implement at their institutions. You can also continue discussions and asking questions on the community discussion forum.

Date: Thursday, October 2, 2025

Time: 2pm Eastern Time

Facilitated by CoP Co-Chairs: Christina Pomykal, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and Lawrence Williams, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)



Learning Webinars

BlueX from Learning to Launch: Use Cases and Resources to Guide Your Journey

calendarWednesday, October 8th 2025, 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Eastern Timezone8 days remaining

Join us for this learning webinar as we explore common use cases that show how institutions and organizations can use BlueX to meet a variety of surveying needs, from student surveys and internal assessments to employee engagement and more. In this webinar, we will also highlight the learning resources available to you, to support your success and help make the most of BlueX.

If you have any specific questions or use cases 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 webinar 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. 

Date: Wednesday, October 8, 2025

  • October 7, 9pm ET / October 8, 1pm AEDT, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
  • October 8, 8am ET / 3pm SAST, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
  • October 8 2pm ET, mainly for customers in the Americas regions

Presenters: Explorance's Training Academy



Community-Led

Bluenotes R1 Universities CoP Meetup: October 9

calendarThursday, October 9th 2025, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Eastern Timezone9 days remaining

Members in the Bluenotes R1 Universities Community of Practice (Blue-using R1 universities in the United States) are meeting on Thursday, October 9, 2025 @ 1pm ET to connect and share experiences. Please specify the topics you want to discuss together as a community as you register, or on the community discussion forum.

Date: Thursday, October 9, 2025

Time: 1pm Eastern Time

Facilitated by CoP Co-Chairs: Lisa Emery, University of Michigan & Paul Creed III, Kent State University



Community-Led

Bluenotes Down Under CoP Meetup: October 16

calendarWednesday, October 15th 2025, 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM Eastern Timezone16 days remaining

Members in the Bluenotes Down Under Community of Practice are meeting on Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 1pm AEDT to connect, share experiences, and continue discussions from the Explorance APAC Summit 2025. Please specify any other topics you would like to discuss together as a community as you register, or feel free to continue the conversation on the community discussion forum.

Exclusive To: Members in the Bluenotes Down Under Community of Practice

Date: Thursday, October 16, 2025

Time: 1pm AEDT



Community-Led

Bluenotes U15 CoP Meetup: October 22

calendarWednesday, October 22nd 2025, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Eastern Timezone22 days remaining

Members in the Bluenotes U15 Community of Practice (community members that are a part of the U15 Consortium - a group of Canadian Research Universities) are meeting on Wednesday, October 22, 2025 @ 1pm ET to connect and share experiences. Please specify the topics you want to discuss together as a community as you register or on the community discussion forum.

Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Time: 1pm Eastern Time

Facilitated by CoP Co-Chair: David Greaves, University of Saskatchewan



Community-Led

Bluenotes Response Rates & Engagement CoP Meetup: October 23

calendarThursday, October 23rd 2025, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Eastern Timezone23 days remaining

Members in the Bluenotes Response Rate & Engagement Community of Practice are meeting on Thursday, October 23, 2025 to connect, share experiences, and continue discussions from Explorance World 2025 on topics such as increasing student and faculty engagement to increase response rates. Please specify the topics you want to discuss together as a community as you register, or on the community discussion forum.

Date: Thursday, October 33, 2025

Time: 1pm ET

Facilitated by CoP Co-Chairs: Bridget Madden, MassBay Community College, and Nompumelelo Mazibuko, University of the Witwatersrand


Community-Led

Bluenotes Lone Star CoP Meetup: October 29

calendarWednesday, October 29th 2025, 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Eastern Timezone29 days remaining

Members in the Bluenotes Lone Star Community of Practice (Blue-using institutions in Texas) are meeting on Wednesday, October 29, 2025 @ 1pm CT to connect and share experiences. If you have any specific topics you wish to share and/or discuss during this meetup, please feel free to let us know as you register, or on the Bluenotes Lone Star CoP discussion forum.

Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Time: 1pm Central Time / 2pm Eastern Time

Facilitated by CoP Co-Chair: Steven Szeszko, Alamo Colleges District



Learning Webinars

Unveiling MLY 3.1: Smarter, Safer Feedback & Privacy Tools for Your Organization

calendarTuesday, November 4th 2025, 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Eastern Timezone35 days remaining

Join us for a first look at MLY 3.1! Learn how the new Redaction Workspace, AI-powered insights, and enhanced sharing and admin tools make managing feedback smarter, safer, and easier. See how these innovations can help you protect privacy, uncover meaning, and collaborate more effectively.

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 webinar 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.

Date & Time: Three sessions are scheduled for community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.

  • Monday, November 3, 10pm ET / Tuesday, November 4, 2pm AEDT, mainly for customers in the APAC region
  • Tuesday, November 4, 2pm ET, mainly for customers in the Americas
  • Tuesday, November 11, 9am ET / 2pm GMT, mainly for customers in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East

Presenter: Kyle Podwalski, Solutions Engineer, Explorance



Learning Webinars

MLY: Alerts, Redactions, and Sharing… Oh My!

calendarWednesday, December 10th 2025, 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Eastern Timezone71 days remaining

Join us to learn how to easily navigate updated workflows in MLY 3.1! We’ll go in-depth into how to use the new Redaction Workspace to streamline sensitive data handling, how to customize sharing options with your stakeholders to improve collaboration and control access, and how to leverage the new Alert categorizations to quickly prioritize issues and take action faster.

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 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. 

Date: Wednesday, September 17 2025

  • December 9, 9pm ET / December 10, 1pm AEDT, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
  • December 10, 8am ET / 3pm SAST, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
  • December 10, 2pm ET, mainly for customers in the Americas regions

Presenter: Erika Cost, Explorance