Upcoming Bluenotes Chapter Events

Here you will find a list of all upcoming Bluenotes chapter events.

Bluenotes chapters are organized and led by Blue-using institutions for more frequent community interactions to connect, share experiences, and learn with improvement in mind.

Register to connect with your like-minded Bluenotes Chapter members!

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The Bluenotes chapters are all about learning from one another with more frequent interactions.

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Learning Webinars

Uncovering Valuable Insights from Qualitative Feedback with MLY - Practical Hands-on Tips and Recommended Practices

calendarWednesday, March 27th 2024, 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM Eastern Timezone

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.

    • 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



Community-Led

Bluenotes Atlantic Hurricanes CoP Meetup: April 3

calendarWednesday, April 3rd 2024, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Eastern Timezone6 days remaining

Members in the Bluenotes Atlantic Hurricanes Community of Practice are meeting on Wednesday, April 3, 2024 @ 1pm ET to connect together and share what questions community members are asking on their course evaluations, including what instruments used and who makes the decisions about what is being asked. Feel free to continue discussions and asking questions on the Bluenotes Atlantic Hurricanes community discussion forum and specify the topics you want to discuss together as a community as you register!

Exclusive To: Members in the Bluenotes Atlantic Hurricanes CoP

Date: Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Time: 1pm Eastern Time

Chapter Co-Chairs: Heather Thompson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Adam Flanders, University of Maryland Global Campus



Community-Led

Bluenotes Midterm Surveys CoP Meetup: April 10

calendarWednesday, April 10th 2024, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Eastern Timezone13 days remaining

Members in the Bluenotes Midterm Surveys community of practice are meeting on April 10, 2024 @1pm ET to discuss ongoing efforts to increase awareness and participation in the midterm survey process from faculty and institutional leaders. Members can share their processes for promoting midterm surveys, survey questions, and report access. Post questions, specific topics you’d like to discuss, or solutions you’d like to share when you register.

We will also continue to discuss topics being shared on the Bluenotes Midterm Surveys Discussion forum.

Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2024 

Time: 1pm Eastern Time

Facilitated by CoP Co-Chair: Lisa Votodian, University of Pittsburgh



Community-Led

Bluenotes East Central CoP Meetup: April 24

calendarWednesday, April 24th 2024, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Eastern Timezone27 days remaining

Members in the Bluenotes East Central Community are meeting on April 24, 2024 @1pm ET to discuss topics of interest. Post questions, specific topics you’d like to discuss, or solutions you’d like to share when you register. We will also continue to discuss topics being shared on the Bluenotes East Central CoP Discussion forum.

Exclusive To: Members in the Bluenotes East Central Chapter

Date: Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Time: 1pm ET

Facilitated by CoP Co-Chair: Lisa Votodian, University of Pittsburgh


Community-Led

Bluenotes Western Canada CoP Meetup: April 25

calendarThursday, April 25th 2024, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Eastern Timezone28 days remaining

Members in the Bluenotes Western Canada Community of Practice (Blue-using institutions in Western Canada) are meeting on Thursday, April  25, 2024 @ 1pm ET / 10am PT to connect together and continue discussions on topics relevant to the Western Canada region. Feel free to continue discussions and asking questions on the Bluenotes Western Canada community discussion forum and specify the topics you want to discuss together as a community as you register!

Exclusive To: Members in the Bluenotes Western Canada CoP

Date: Thursday, April 25, 2024

Time: 1pm ET / 10am PT

Facilitated by CoP Co-Chair: Barish Golland, Trinity Western University


Community-Led

Bluenotes Medical & Health Sciences Community Meetup: May 1

calendarWednesday, May 1st 2024, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Eastern Timezone34 days remaining

Members in the Bluenotes Medical & Health Sciences community of practice are meeting on Wednesday, May 1, 2024 @ 1pm ET to connect together and continue discussions on how to conduct clinical evaluations in Blue. In this meetup, we've invited Bluenotes Community member, John Jordi from University of Florida, to share successes and best practices for conducting clinical evaluations in Blue at University of Florida. Other topics suggested for this and future meetups include:

  • Clinical evaluation reporting scenarios
  • How to use DIG for clinical evaluations in Blue
  • How to use data from other data sources using Extension Blocks
  • Making the QR code more accessible for bedside clinical settings
  • Non-technical aspect of clinical like how to extract the data from the different clinical data source (CEMS/CRMS)
  • How to get non-institution personnel in the datasource, if students and instructors are in 2 different datasources
  • How to get past the firewall of a clinical site (e.g. VA) for clinical evaluations
  • and more!

You can also continue discussions and asking questions on the MHS CoP discussion forum.

Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Time: 1pm ET

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


Community-Led

Bluenotes U15 Community of Practice Meetup: May 9

calendarThursday, May 9th 2024, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Eastern Timezone42 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 Thursday, May 9, 2024 @ 1pm ET to connect, share experiences, and continue discussions from the November 2023 meetup. Take a look at the November 22 meetup summary in the U15 community discussion forum and feel free to share and ask questions there. Please specify any other topics you wish to discuss together as a community as you register!

Exclusive To: Members in the Bluenotes U15 Community of Practice

Date: Thursday, May 9, 2024

Time: 1pm Eastern Time

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


Learning Webinars

Ask an Expert! May 15

calendarWednesday, May 15th 2024, 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM Eastern Timezone47 days remaining

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. 

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, 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.

    • 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 



Learning Webinars

Demandez aux experts! mai 2024

calendarWednesday, May 15th 2024, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Eastern Timezone47 days remaining

Dans la série de webinaires d'apprentissage interactifs " Demandez à un expert ", les experts en solutions d'Explorance répondront aux questions pré-soumises par les utilisateurs de Blue sur une vaste gamme de thèmes.** Que vous veniez de commencer avec Blue ou que vous soyez un expert, ce webinaire est pour vous ! Veuillez soumettre vos questions ou sujets d'intérêt sur le formulaire d'inscription ci-dessous et une semaine avant la date prévue, la description sera mise à jour avec les sujets que nous couvrirons.

Si vous avez des questions spécifiques  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.

** Bien que nous fassions de notre mieux pour répondre à toutes les questions soumises, il peut arriver que nous ne puissions pas intégrer tout le contenu dans le temps donné. Soyez assurés que toute question non traitée sera ajoutée à la liste du prochain webinaire "Demandez à un expert".

Date: Mercredi 15 mai 2024

Heure: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Heure de l'Est

Présentateurs: L'équipe d'architecture des solutions d'Explorance



Community-Led

Parcours avec Explorance Blue : 10 ans de développement à Nantes Université

calendarThursday, May 16th 2024, 09:00 AM - 10:00 AM Eastern Timezone48 days remaining

Depuis près de 10 ans, Nantes Université utilise Explorance Blue pour développer ses pratiques en matière feed-back étudiants. Cette approche inclue autant le développement pédagogie continue que le pilotage stratégique de l’offre de formation. Joignez-vous à ce webinaire au cours duquel notre invité Thibault Nelias, ingénieur qualité, présentera:

  • Comment la démarche d'évaluation à Nantes Université est née.
  • Comment ce processus se déroule et les résultats qu'ils observent.
  • Comment les résultats informent les stratégies de développement au sein de l'organisation et dans l’utilisation de Blue.

Pour conclure, nous présenterons comment Nantes Université s'engage dans un processus d'amélioration continue de son enseignement grâce au feedback étudiant.  

Date: Jeudi 16 mai 2024

Heure: 15h00 GMT/UTC: +01:00 (09h00 Heure de l'Est)

Présentateur: Thibault Nelias, Ingénieur qualité, Nantes Université



Community-Led

Bluenotes R1 Universities CoP Meetup: May 16

calendarThursday, May 16th 2024, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Eastern Timezone49 days remaining

Members in the Bluenotes R1 Universities Community of Practice (Blue-using R1 universities in the United States) are meeting on Thursday, May 16, 2024 @ 1pm ET to reconnect virtually and continue discussions on current topics, catch up and share experiences, and problem-solving together, discussing topics such as transitioning to Blue 9 and current projects you are working on in. Feel free to continue discussions and asking questions on the Bluenotes R1 Universities community discussion forum and specify the topics you want to discuss together as a community as you register!

Exclusive To: Members in the Bluenotes R1 Universities CoP

Date: Thursday, May 16, 2024

Time: 1pm Eastern Time

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