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.
Using Blue to Set up and Implement Program Evaluations
More and more institutions are leveraging Blue beyond traditional course evaluations to assess overall program effectiveness. In this learning webinar, Explorance Solution Experts will show you how to create a program evaluation with Blue, whether as an independent process or seamlessly integrated with your course evaluation workflow. Join this webinar to learn how to build an end-to-end program evaluation that delivers actionable insights to help drive continuous improvement and enhance the quality of academic programs at your institution.
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. This learning webinar will also be delivered in French. To register for the French session, please see the separate registration form.
Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2025
- July 29, 9pm ET / July 30,1pm AEDT, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- July 30, 8am ET / 3pm SAST, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- July 30, 2pm ET, mainly for customers in the Americas regions
Presenters: Explorance's Solutions Architecture Team
Utiliser Blue pour mettre en place et réaliser des évaluations de programmes
De plus en plus d'établissements utilisent Blue au-delà des évaluations de cours traditionnelles pour évaluer l'efficacité globale des programmes. Dans ce webinaire d'apprentissage, les experts en solutions d'Explorance vous montreront comment concevoir une évaluation de programme avec Blue, que ce soit en tant que processus indépendant ou parfaitement intégré à votre flux de travail d'évaluation de cours. Participez à ce webinaire pour apprendre à construire une évaluation de programme de bout en bout qui fournit des informations exploitables pour aider à améliorer en permanence et à renforcer la qualité des programmes universitaires de votre établissement.
Si vous avez des questions spécifiques que vous aimeriez que nous prenions en compte lors de la préparation de ce webinaire, n'hésitez pas à nous en faire part sur votre formulaire d'inscription ou via le forum de discussion du webinaire de cette communauté.
Date : Mercredi 30 juillet 2025
Heure: 10am ET
Présenté par : L'équipe d'architecture des solutions d'Explorance
Unveiling Blue 9.5 – Smarter Insights & Seamless Management
Join us for the Blue 9.5 release Q&A webinar as we dive into the powerful new features of Blue 9.5, highlighting the innovations designed to provide you with a faster, smarter, and more intuitive experience, empowering your organization to make confident, data-driven decisions and streamline your workflows.
In this webinar, you'll discover how Blue 9.5 will enhance your operations through:
- Enhanced Blue Dashboard Capabilities: Experience a significantly improved analytics experience with new functionalities within your existing Blue Dashboard. We'll showcase how new dynamic thresholds and expanded admin controls will empower you to interpret your feedback data more effectively, streamline data visualization, and enhance usability, leading to more confident, data-driven decisions.
- Centralized & Secure User Management: Explore the enhanced user management experience across Blue and BlueX 2.0. Discover how data-driven group configurations and flexible cross-product integrations allow you to centrally manage users with ease, ensuring tailored access and smoother workflows across all your Blue products.
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. This learning webinar will also be delivered in French. To register for the French session, please see the separate registration form.
Date: Wednesday, August 6, 2025
- August 5, 9pm ET / August 6, 1pm AEDT, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- August 6, 8am ET / 3pm SAST, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- August 6, 2pm ET, mainly for customers in the Americas regions
Presenters: Explorance's Solutions Architecture Team
Présentation de Blue 9.5 – Des informations plus intelligentes et une gestion fluide
Rejoignez-nous pour le webinaire Q&R sur Blue 9.5 afin de découvrir les nouvelles fonctionnalités puissantes de Blue 9.5, mettant en avant les innovations conçues pour vous offrir une expérience plus rapide, plus intelligente et plus intuitive, permettant à votre organisation de prendre des décisions éclairées et basées sur des données, et de rationaliser vos flux de travail.
Au cours de ce webinaire, vous découvrirez comment Blue 9.5 améliorera vos opérations grâce à :
- Des capacités améliorées du Blue Dashboard : bénéficiez d'une expérience analytique considérablement améliorée grâce aux nouvelles fonctionnalités de votre Blue Dashboard existant. Nous vous montrerons comment les nouveaux seuils dynamiques et les contrôles administratifs étendus vous permettront d'interpréter plus efficacement vos données de feedback, de rationaliser la visualisation des données et d'améliorer la convivialité, pour des décisions plus sûres et basées sur les données.
- Une gestion centralisée et sécurisée des utilisateurs : explorez l'expérience améliorée de gestion des utilisateurs dans Blue et BlueX 2.0. Découvrez comment les configurations de groupes basées sur les données et les intégrations inter-produits flexibles vous permettent de gérer facilement les utilisateurs de manière centralisée, garantissant ainsi un accès personnalisé et des flux de travail plus fluides dans tous vos produits Blue.
Si vous avez des questions spécifiques que vous aimeriez que nous prenions en compte lors de la préparation de ce webinaire, n'hésitez pas à nous en faire part sur votre formulaire d'inscription ou via le forum de discussion du webinaire de cette communauté.
Date : Mercredi 6 août 2025
Heure: 10am ET
Présenté par : L'équipe d'architecture des solutions d'Explorance
Bluenotes Midterm Surveys CoP Meetup: August 13
Members in the Bluenotes Midterm Surveys Community of Practice are meeting on Wednesday, August 13, 2025 at 1pm ET to connect, share experiences, and continue discussions from Explorance World 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 Bluenotes Midterm Surveys CoP Discussion Forum.
Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Time: 1pm Eastern Time
Facilitated by CoP Co-Chairs: Lisa Votodian, University of Pittsburgh & Lawrence Williams, Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU)
Reimagining Feedback in Higher Education: Introducing Explorance BlueX
In today’s dynamic higher education environment, feedback isn’t just a formality — it’s a foundation for improvement. Whether you're collecting insights from students, faculty, or staff, you need a survey platform that’s built for the unique pace, structure, and governance of academic institutions.
Join this webinar for an exclusive look at BlueX, a new survey platform redefining how higher education collects and acts on insights. Built to go beyond traditional form builders, BlueX enables academic teams to create expressive, intuitive, and actionable surveys with ease. From research projects to administrative surveys, BlueX delivers unmatched customization, seamless collaboration, and advanced analytics—so every voice can be heard and every decision can be data-informed.
In this session, you’ll learn how BlueX enables institutions to:
- Empower campus-wide surveying across schools, faculties, and people while maintaining oversight through role-based sharing and approval workflows
- Deliver survey analytics and insightful reports within the same platform
- Adapt on the fly with live survey versioning, templates, and real-time respondent tracking
- Do more than surveys, including forms, newsletters, non-graded quizzes, and interactive content with a single intuitive survey editor
Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2025 | 1pm ET
Presenters: Explorance's BlueX Experts
Bluenotes Atlantic Hurricanes CoP Meetup: September 3
Members in the Bluenotes Atlantic Hurricanes Community of Practice are meeting on Wednesday, September 3, 2025 @ 2pm ET to connect together and continue discussions from Explorance World 2025 on topics relevant to the Mid and South Atlantic region.
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 Bluenotes Atlantic Hurricanes CoP Discussion Forum.
Exclusive To: Members in the Bluenotes Atlantic Hurricanes CoP
Date: Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Time: 2pm Eastern Time
Facilitated by CoP Co-Chairs: Heather Thompson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Adam Flanders, University of Maryland Global Campus
MLY CoP Meetup: September 11
Members in the MLY Community of Practice are meeting on Thursday, September 11, 2025 at 1pm ET to connect, share experiences, and continue discussions from Explorance World 2025. Please specify any other topics you wish to discuss together as a community as you register! Feel free to continue discussing and asking questions on MLY CoP Discussion Forum.
Date: Thursday, September 11, 2025
Time: 1pm ET
The Hitchhikers Guide to Blue Dashboard, Explorance’s Analytics Tool
With a wink of appreciation to Douglas Adams, this webinar shows how common analytics use-cases can be addressed using Blue Dashboard, including use of the enhancements delivered via the recent release. The latest version of the Blue Dashboard connects exclusively to Blue 9. This learning webinar will be a continuation from the Blue 9.5 release webinar. Join us as we go into the details about setup steps and illustrate how end users can navigate the Blue Dashboard to use the new functionalities.
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: Wednesday, September 17 2025
- September 16, 9pm ET / September 17, 1pm AEDT, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
- September 17, 8am ET / 3pm SAST, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
- September 17, 2pm ET, mainly for customers in the Americas regions
Presenters: Explorance's Training Academy
Bluenotes Reporting & Analytics CoP Meetup: September 25
Bluenotes Community members are meeting for the Reporting & Analytics Community of Practice (CoP) meetup on Thursday, September 25, 2025 @ 1pm ET to exchange ideas and continue discussions on new and unique reporting setups to share in the Bluenotes Community Sharing Sandbox Instance. Feel free to submit any specific topics you would like to discuss together as a community as you register. You can also continue discussions and asking questions on the Reporting & Analytics CoP discussion forum.
Date: Thursday, September 25, 2025
Time: 1pm Eastern Time
Facilitated by CoP Co-Chair: John Jordi, University of Florida
Bluenotes Medical & Health Sciences CoP Meetup: October 2
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)
BlueX from Learning to Launch: Use Cases and Resources to Guide Your Journey
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
Bluenotes R1 Universities CoP Meetup: October 9
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
Bluenotes U15 CoP Meetup: October 22
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
Bluenotes Lone Star CoP Meetup: October 29
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