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.
Bluenotes Midterm Surveys CoP Meetup: August 13
Wednesday, August 13th 2025, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Eastern TimezoneMembers 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
Wednesday, August 20th 2025, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Eastern Timezone
7 days remaining
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
Wednesday, September 3rd 2025, 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Eastern Timezone21 days remaining
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
Bluenotes West Coast CoP Meetup: September 10
Wednesday, September 10th 2025, 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Eastern Timezone28 days remaining
We are excited to announce a new community of practice for Blue-using institutions on the west coast of the United States. Thank you, Juliet Wilhelm at University of California Santa Cruz and Kayla Hardin at California State University-San Marcos, for co-chairing this CoP to connect your Blue-using colleagues on the west coast!
Join your like-minded colleagues for the inaugural Bluenotes West Coast CoP meetup on Wednesday, September 10, 2025, at 11am PST to connect, share experiences, and discuss topics relevant to you. Please specify any 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.
Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Time: 11 am PST
Facilitated by CoP Co-Chairs: Juliet Wilhelm, University of California Santa Cruz, and Kayla Hardin, California State University-San Marcos
MLY CoP Meetup: September 11
Thursday, September 11th 2025, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Eastern Timezone29 days remaining
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
Wednesday, September 17th 2025, 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Eastern Timezone35 days remaining
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
Thursday, September 25th 2025, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Eastern Timezone43 days remaining
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
Thursday, October 2nd 2025, 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Eastern Timezone50 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)
BlueX from Learning to Launch: Use Cases and Resources to Guide Your Journey
Wednesday, October 8th 2025, 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Eastern Timezone56 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
Bluenotes R1 Universities CoP Meetup: October 9
Thursday, October 9th 2025, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Eastern Timezone57 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
Bluenotes Down Under CoP Meetup: October 16
Wednesday, October 15th 2025, 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Eastern Timezone63 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
Bluenotes U15 CoP Meetup: October 22
Wednesday, October 22nd 2025, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Eastern Timezone70 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
Bluenotes Response Rates & Engagement CoP Meetup: October 23
Thursday, October 23rd 2025, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Eastern Timezone71 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
Bluenotes Lone Star CoP Meetup: October 29
Wednesday, October 29th 2025, 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Eastern Timezone77 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