In this session, Explorance’s CEO, Samer Saab, will share the vision forward in supporting the implementation of a holistic Student Journey Analytics (SJA) framework at your institution. Higher Education Institutions are facing increasing challenges due to ever-changing government regulations, an increasingly competitive landscape, and the digitization of the economy. The focus on student success and other key indicators, such as first-year retention, engagement, and graduation rates, are fast becoming top priorities for every academic leader. Join this webinar to learn how Blue SJA solutions can be leveraged to help you better support your students throughout their academic life cycle with a connected experience management process, continuous listening strategy, and robust decision support capabilities.

Time: May 6, 2:00pm-2:30pm, Eastern Timezone

Presenter: Samer Saab, CEO, Explorance

For all the benefits of administering Student Evaluations of Teaching (SET) online, transitioning to a new system can see response rates fall, instructors alienated, and administrators frustrated. Blue provides institutions a variety of tools that can be leveraged to help faculty participate, impress the end-users, and increase engagement overall. These principles include: managing first impressions, documentation and communication, branding and messaging, data-based decision making, integration with existing systems and processes, and more.

Time: Three sessions are scheduled for bluenotes community members in different time zones worldwide. Register in a time zone that best fits your schedule

• April 28, 9pm-10:30pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
• April 29, 6am-7:30am Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
• April 29, 2pm-3:30pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in Americas regions

Presenter: Khalid Marbou, Professional Services Consultant, Explorance

Blue 7.15 is available as of April 6. What’s new in Blue 7.15? In this webinar, we will go over the key new features and enhancements included in Blue 7.15. And the webinar will be open to you for Q&A. Join the webinar to learn and discuss how these new features and enhancements can help your institutions.

Time: April 15, 2pm-3pm, Eastern Timezone

Presenter: Michael Cochrane, Senior Product Training Specialist, Explorance

Enhanced Blue 7 is coming to Blue bringing improvements to your reporting capabilities and other features. Among them:

• The new impersonation feature allows project administrators to log into Blue as any user to view their dashboard, tasks, and reports as they would see them.
• Virtual questions and cross category blocks can be used with Question Bank placeholders.
• Response thresholds can now be set for each report block.
• Raw data CSV reports can be created and distributed for Group By reports.
• Advanced Export reports have been enhanced to provide much needed rater demographic data.

In addition to reviewing the above features, we will look at some existing reporting features and functionalities, such as the support of new enhanced statistics in spreadsheet blocks. Time: Three sessions are scheduled for bluenotes community members in different time zones worldwide. Register in a time zone that best fits your schedule

• Feb 25, 9pm-10:30pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
• Feb 26, 6am-7:30am Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
• Feb 26, 2pm-3:30pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in Americas regions

Presenter: Margot MacNutt, Training Manager, Explorance

Automatically updating demographic information in live projects is the eagerly anticipated functionality that allows specific course and student demographic data to be updated daily after the project has been published. Increasingly, institutions are launching course evaluation projects at the beginning of the term which allows them to capture feedback for shorter term and online courses. This has put an extra burden on the SIS/Blue data admin to ensure that course data is accurate before the evaluation project is published in Blue. In this webinar, we will walk through the process of setting up this functionality, configuring it, and examining some important use cases and the impact that this functionality will have on these projects.

Time: Three sessions are scheduled for bluenotes community members in different time zones worldwide. Register in a time zone that best fits your schedule

• Jan 28, 9pm-10:30pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
• Jan 29, 6am-7:30am Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
• Jan 29, 2pm-3:30pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in Americas regions

Presenter: Krimo Bouaou, Director, Learning Center, Explorance

Our Bluenotes community members are getting engaged more and more in the online forums, asking questions to better use Blue features and functionalities and discussing ideas to improve Blue. We, at Explorance, appreciate the opportunities to learn from questions and suggestions for improvement. In this webinar, we will share the questions and suggestions being discussed, along with other insights from the community using real-world examples, when appropriate.

Time: Three sessions are scheduled for bluenotes community members in different time zones worldwide. Register in a time zone that best fits your schedule

• Nov 19, 9pm-10:30pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
• Nov 20, 6am-7:30am Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
• Nov 20, 2pm-3:30pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in Americas regions

Presenter: Krimo Bouaou, Director, Learning Center, Explorance

At this moment, surveys are being used to gather data at every level of your institution. Whether it’s a researcher collecting information for a study, an instructor capturing the voice of their students or a student gathering data as part of a class project, every stakeholder at your institution should be able to create the surveys they need, when they need, and the way they need.

Join this webinar and meet BlueX, a powerful new tool for decentralized surveys built with and for higher education. After working with dozens of institutions for over three years, Explorance has developed BlueX to be familiar, flexible, and able to create any survey that you can imagine. In this session, we will showcase the features and functionalities that make BlueX the future of survey software.

Time: Three sessions are scheduled for bluenotes community members in different time zones worldwide. Register in a time zone that best fits your schedule

• Oct 22, 9pm-10:30pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
• Oct 23, 6am-7:30am Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
• Oct 23, 2pm-3:30pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in Americas regions

Presenter: François Beneteau, Director of Sales Operations, Explorance

Whether you are working on school wide initiatives, an institutional research group focused on student success, or a faculty member that is looking to increase student engagement, getting the feedback you need, delivered in the moment you need it, will help you maximize opportunities for development.

This webinar will showcase the features and functionalities of Bluepulse as well as tips to facilitate two-way communication. The power of Bluepulse is that is gives universities the data they need to improve, learn, and develop and helps instructors make teaching more effective and fun throughout the semester.

Time: Three sessions are scheduled for bluenotes community members in different time zones worldwide. Register in a time zone that best fits your schedule

• Sep 24, 9pm-10:30pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
• Sep 25, 6am-7:30am Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
• Sep 25, 2pm-3:30pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in Americas regions

Presenter: Krimo Bouaou, Director, Learning Center, Explorance; Nitin Sharma, Product Analyst, Explorance

In this webinar, we will show you how you can streamline your questionnaires using functionalities in Blue such as question branching, demographic and response piping in projects and reports, extension blocks. These tools can make your feedback process dynamically customizable while enhancing your reporting insight.

Time: Three sessions are scheduled for bluenotes community members in different time zones worldwide. Register in a time zone that best fits your schedule

• July 16, 9pm-10:30pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
• July 17, 6am-7:30am Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
• July 17, 2pm-3:30pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in Americas regions

Presenter: Krimo Bouaou, Director, Learning Center, Explorance

One of the biggest challenges in running a course evaluation is ensuring the accuracy and completeness of your institutional data. It is often easy to miss critical information in the course details, student information, teacher-to-course information, and other data required to launch an evaluation process.

This Webinar will present how to use DIG (Data Integrity Gateway) to provide visibility into your data, allowing you to validate all information and correct any inaccuracies before the evaluation process begins.

Time: Three sessions are scheduled for bluenotes community members in different time zones worldwide. Register in a time zone that best fits your schedule

• June 18, 9pm-10:30pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the APAC region
• June 19, 6am-7:30am Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the Europe region
• June 19, 2pm-3:30pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in Americas region

Trigger logic is a common method used in questionnaire creation to automate what recipients get which questions. As more and more trigger logic is embedded in questionnaires, managing the logic conditions with consistency for data collection and reporting can become complex. Blue’s Question Bank feature is a repository of questions through which questionnaires from different projects can pull specified questions without the need for triggering logic. That power makes Question Bank particularly useful for institutions that deal with large or complex questionnaires. In this webinar we will be showcasing one such institution and their application of Question Bank.

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.

Time: Multiple sessions are available. Register in a time zone that best fits your schedule.

Blue provides various reporting features and functionalities that help tailor reports to fit your needs. We will show you how to simplify the layout of a table and highlight what feedback data is saying to better inform decisions. We will also show you how to remove content from a report that may not be relevant, such as questions that do not meet threshold conditions, so that only meaningful information is visualized. Finally, we will review the key existing reporting features and functionalities that have been enhanced, such as the ability to aggregate results in an export report. 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.

Time: Multiple sessions are available. Register in a time zone that best fits your schedule.

Did you know that BPI has been one of the most frequently searched terms on the Explorance Help Center? We heard you! In this webinar we will walk you through the creation of the different BPI blocks (Task, Report, Subject, Feedback, and Launcher). In addition, we will present the native LMS integrations available in Blue, and show you how you can leverage these integrations to increase faculty and student engagement and response rates. The learning webinar is scheduled to be delivered three times for our community members in different time zones worldwide.

• March 26, 9pm-10:30pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the APAC region
• March 27, 6am-7:30am Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the Europe region
• March 28, 2pm-3:30pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in Americas region

Pick the learning webinar session offered at the time that best fits your schedule, upon clicking the "Click here to register" button.

Blue provides a number of built-in features for course evaluations that can help you and your faculty plan what to evaluate when, and help your key stakeholders monitor the evaluation’s progress in an effort to achieve the best response rates possible. Response Rate Monitor, Subject View Management, Subject View and Subject Fill Out are key Blue features for that. In this learning webinar, we will show you what they are, how they differ, where you can use them, and for what purposes. This will allow you to take full advantage of these Blue features in your own environment, improving the autonomy of the end users with an increased automation of course evaluation workflows. The learning webinar is scheduled to be delivered three times for our community members in different time zones worldwide.

• February 26, 9pm-10:00pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the APAC region
• February 27, 6am-7:00am Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the Europe region
• February 27, 2pm-3:00pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in Americas region

Pick the learning webinar session offered at the time that best fits your schedule, upon clicking the "Click here to register" button.

You have set up a course evaluation project, a 360 evaluation project, or an institutional survey in Blue. Now what? Do you wonder how to test the project so that you catch any errors and correct them before you launch it? This webinar will show you how to test and check your Blue projects and reports, by simulating the project in a test setting (including the delivery of simulated emails to the intended groups such as students, instructors, faculty members, etc., and performing the actions that your user groups will do). Through this testing, you will be able to see how the project will work, catching potential errors and correcting them before your project goes live. The learning webinar is scheduled to be delivered three times for our community members in different time zones worldwide.

• January 22, 9pm-10:00pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the APAC region
• January 23, 6am-7:00am Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in the Europe region
• January 23, 2pm-3:00pm Eastern Timezone, mainly for customers in Americas region

Pick the learning webinar session offered at the time that best fits your schedule, upon clicking the "Click here to register" button.

In addition to course evaluations, more and more institutions are using Blue in their program evaluations to gain more insight on the quality of their programs, as they seek to continuously improve their program offerings. In this session, we will show you how to build program evaluations as a separate process, or integrated into your course evaluation process. The 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.

The goal of the Blue Instructor Feedback Dashboard (IFD) is to empower instructors with a robust tool for exploring and analyzing their course evaluations feedback collected over time so that they can identify meaningful continuous improvement opportunities. In this webinar, we will show how an end user (an instructor) can use the IFD, as well as how an administrator can take advantage of key features useful for configuring the IFD.  The 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.

In this Learning Webinar, we will introduce the new features and upgrades in Blue that can expand your reporting capabilities by using relationship demographics and the new section block breakdown functionality. We’ll also present how easily you can map survey questions to each school or departmental unit, as we walk you through the question mapping process and validate the final survey instrument in one simple interface. The 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.

Incorrect and/or incomplete data negatively impacts the ability to administer a course evaluation project (such as sending the invitation emails to the right set of survey recipients for the right set of courses and instructors) but also the validity and quality of responses collected for reporting and analysis. The challenge of maintaining the accuracy and completeness of data is further compounded by changes that may occur on the data (course end dates, enrollments, teaching assignments, etc.), even after the project is launched. In this webinar, we will show you what you can do to keep data accurate and up-to-date in Blue and also show you what you must do, when changes in data happen in an ongoing/active evaluation project. The topic covered in this webinar can be applied to 360 evaluations and any other evaluation projects. The 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.

Join this webinar to learn about relationship demographics, a new feature in Blue 7. New capabilities to take advantage of the relationship demographics in filtering and triggering will be demonstrated.  In this webinar, you will see the application of the relationship demographics to the specific case involving instructor selection in a questionnaire. In addition, a few other opportunities where relationship demographics can be used to further shape the behavior of the questionnaires will be presented. The 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.

In any feedback process, a Blue project definition forms the basis of all projects, questionnaires, tasks, and reports in Blue – program evaluation, team-taught course evaluation, 360 reviews, etc. The choice of definition will not only impact the user experience of project administration but also the way analysis and reporting is conducted. In this learning webinar, we will explore the different Blue project definitions so that you are better able to take full advantage of these features and functionalities. The 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 Bluepulse faculty on-boarding webinar is designed specifically for instructors. The webinar will showcase the features and functionalities along with the tips that instructors can use to increase student engagement, get real-time feedback from students, reach out to students when they need support, and make teaching more fun throughout a semester. This learning webinar is scheduled to be delivered 6 times for our community members in different time zones worldwide. Register in a time slot that best fits your schedule.

Question Personalization is a very powerful way to engage your faculty and course coordinators in the feedback process. It gives them the opportunity to customize the course evaluation instrument within your organization by adding their own questions. Join us for this webinar where we will demonstrate the easy steps for selecting, customizing, and submitting questions for the teaching and course evaluation form in Blue. Although we will focus mainly on the use of Question Personalization in the context of course evaluations, it can also be used in a context of a performance appraisal project to allow for goal setting. 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 Bluepulse faculty on-boarding webinar is designed specifically for instructors. The webinar will showcase the features and functionalities along with the tips that instructors can use to increase student engagement, get real-time feedback from students, reach out to students when they need support, and make teaching more fun throughout a semester. This learning webinar is scheduled to be delivered 6 times for our community members in different time zones worldwide. Register in a time slot that best fits your schedule.

There are many different ways to display the results from your feedback gathering process. Are you using the right tools to get the key information across to your audience? Learn how you can optimize Blue’s reporting tools to give clearer insights and more impactful results. 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.

In this session, we will walk you through the native LMS integrations that are available with Blue. We will also show you how you can leverage these integrations to increase faculty and student engagement and response rates. 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 webinar will cover the new features in Bluepulse, which are designed to engage and connect students. We will cover the ‘To Do List’, ‘Central Pulse’, ‘Focused Follow-ups’, and other new features that faculty can leverage for in-the-moment feedback. 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.

In our "Ask an eXpert" webinar, an eXplorance product expert will answer pre-submitted questions from Blue users on a wide range of topics. If you have a specific area that you would like to know more about, please provide it in the registration form in order for us to prepare to answer the query during the live session. 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.  

Learn how to use the spreadsheet block to produce condensed and summary reports that have results from multiple levels of the organization and include additional statistics. 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.

In our "Ask an eXpert" webinar, an eXplorance product expert will answer pre-submitted questions from Blue users on a wide range of topics. If you have a specific area that you would like to know more about, please provide it in the registration form in order for us to prepare to answer the query during the live session. 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.

In this session, you will learn how to use the new question bank functionality to handle large questionnaires and create customized evaluations for people based on their role. 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.

 

In our "Ask an eXpert" webinar, an eXplorance product expert will answer pre-submitted questions from Blue users on a wide range of topics. If you have a specific area that you would like to know more about, please provide it in the registration form in order for us to prepare to answer the query during the live session. 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.

Learn how you can use relational demographics to handle complex questionnaire logic and filter the subjects and members in your projects accordingly. 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.

In our "Ask the Expert" webinar, our expert will answer presubmitted questions from Blue users on a wide range of topics. If you have a specific area that you would like to know more about, please provide it in the registration form in order for us to prepare to answer the query during the live session. 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 offer you an overview of the Blue 7 release, as well as a deep dive into some of the major Blue 7 functionality. This webinar will be delivered 3 times to facilitate our global audience. Register now to see the exact times. Join the webinar to learn more about this interesting topic.  

In our "Ask the Expert" webinar, our expert will answer presubmitted questions from Blue users on a wide range of topics. If you have a specific area that you would like to know more about, please let us know by email to learning@explorance.com by 02 August 2017 (in order for us to prepare to answer the query during the live session). This webinar will be delivered 3 times to facilitate our global audience. Register now to see the exact times. Join the webinar to learn more about this interesting topic.

In this Learning Webinar, we will discuss some of the main data issues that can cause your evaluation project and reports to be inaccurate.  We will also show you how to address these issues and offer best practices to prevent them from reoccurring. This webinar will be delivered 3 times to facilitate our global audience. Register now to see the exact times. Join the webinar to learn more about this interesting topic.

In our "Ask the Expert" webinar, our expert will answer presubmitted questions from Blue users on a wide range of topics. If you have a specific area that you would like to know more about, please let us know by email to learning@explorance.com by 03 July 2017 (in order for us to prepare to answer the query during the live session). This webinar will be delivered 3 times to facilitate our global audience. Register now to see the exact times. Join the webinar to learn more about this interesting topic.

In this Learning Webinar, we will look at how datasources can be made more powerful in certain circumstances through the use of Extension Blocks to add data that can automate your feedback process.

In our "Ask the Expert" webinar, our expert will answer presubmitted questions from Blue users on a wide range of topics. If you have a specific area that you would like to know more about, please let us know by email to learning@explorance.com by 03 May 2017 (in order for us to prepare to answer the query during the live session).

In this Learning Webinar, we will look at response management and reporting, and how you can update responses of an evaluation to cater for specific reporting needs.

In our "Ask the Expert" webinar, our expert will answer presubmitted questions from Blue users on a wide range of topics. If you have a specific area that you would like to know more about, please let us know by email to learning@explorance.com by 05 April 2017 (in order for us to prepare to answer the query during the live session).

Question Personalization can be used to engage teachers in the evaluation process and employees in setting goals for their development plan.

In our "Ask the Expert" webinar, our expert will answer presubmitted questions from Blue users on a wide range of topics. If you have a specific area that you would like to know more about, please let us know by email to learning@explorance.com by 01 March 2017 (in order for us to prepare to answer the query during the live session).

Wednesday, January 18 at 1 p.m. EST Course evaluation data preparation can be a LONG and PAINFUL process. Often it occupies key institution resources to split files, parse information, chase down stakeholders, and compile data manually for submission. Join this webinar to learn how the Data Integrity Gateway (DIG) can help institutions automate processes and speed up course evaluation data preparation. eXplorance's CEO, Samer Saab, will demonstrate DIG and interact with all attendees by utilizing the tool to complete an example data preparation project. With its 2^nd fully redesigned version, DIG offers an intuitive platform to take the seven week manual course evaluation data gathering process down to a two week automated process.
Samer has worked directly with institutional researchers & IT members for for three years to best understand the pains of data collection and processing. DIG beta clients included UPenn, Washington State University, and Aarhaus University. Based on what was learned, Samer led an initiative to build a software platform to eliminate redundancies and make data purposeful for course evaluations.

This webinar is not an onscreen presentation! Be part of the Bluepulse interactive software demonstration! Join us to play the role of a student who utilizes Bluepulse during the semester. See Bluepulse on your screen and see the benefits of formative feedback firsthand. The interactive presentation will outline how dozens of universities are currently utilizing Bluepulse and how its drives success in every course.  Bluepulse offers a quick and easy way for students to confidentially offer feedback. The social feedback platform enables instructors to drive feedback loops to course related topics and focus upon groups of students who require additional attention. Students can offer feedback in the LMS, on mobile devices, or wherever is most convenient.  

Blue 6.0 focuses on helping Blue users master the art of gathering and interpreting feedback. We’ve introduced some great time saving features including: – Bulk change options for data preparation – New homepages – Redesigned project and report listings – High powered filters – Usability and interface enhancements We’ve also updated Question Bank and enhanced the project administration experience. In addition, the advanced exports of response data feature set gives Blue users the ability to track and manage questions in order to drive improvement and consistency.