Insights: Questions and Ideas from the Bluenotes Community

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, [...]

Using Bluepulse in Your Institution to Better Connect and Better Perform

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 [...]

Meet BlueX – Survey software that anyone in your institution can use

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 [...]

Automatically Update Demographic Information in Live Projects

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. [...]

Impersonation and More – Presenting Enhancements in the Newest Blue 7

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 [...]

360 Reports: Harnessing the Power of Story Telling

Institutions can present 360 feedback in an efficient story telling manner so that it becomes a mechanism that drives meaningful change. Every type of project possesses its own narrative, and 360-reports can be set up in numerous ways to effectively convey a desired narrative. Throughout this webinar we will cover real-world examples of reporting structures [...]

A Guide to Leveraging Blue Features to Increase Engagement

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, [...]

How to Use Blue Instructor Feedback Dashboard (IFD) to Empower Instructors

The Blue Instructor Feedback Dashboard (IFD) empowers instructors to explore and analyze their collective results from annual course evaluations so that they can identify opportunities for improvement. In this webinar, we will show the capabilities of the IFD including the recent updates added in IFD 1.2. Time: Three sessions are scheduled for bluenotes community members [...]

Blue 7.15 Release Q&A

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 [...]

Reporting to Students: Closing the Feedback Loop Where it Began

Student feedback can drive the improvement of teaching and learning. To do so we talk of ‘closing the loop’. Institutions often assume that applying the evaluation results to define or refine strategic improvement plans accomplishes that. However, the loop begins with students and so ‘closing the loop’ should end where it began: reporting the results [...]

Explorance Vision Forward – Implementing a Holistic Student Journey Analytics (SJA) Framework at your Institution

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 [...]

Explorance’s COVID-19 Higher Education Impact Survey: Sharing the Findings

Thank you for participating in the COVID-19 Higher Education Impact Survey – a Study by Explorance. In this webinar, we will share with you the findings from the survey at an aggregated level. Together, we will also discuss the insights gained from the survey findings and key takeaways that may help you manage the impact [...]

Welcome Aboard – Bluepulse Onboarding

Bluepulse allows for the integration of live formative feedback in various aspects of educational experiences and day-to-day operations – tactical and strategic. The heart of the activity within Bluepulse is based on a continuous improvement cycle; One can 'check-in' or ask questions to get feedback, can then do follow-up based on the feedback received from [...]

Explorance Vision Forward – Unveiling Blue’s 2020 Roadmap for Higher Education

In this session, Samer Saab, Explorance’s CEO, shares the details of the 2020 Blue roadmap and showcases some of the key enhancements and transformations you can expect soon in Blue. We know you’ll be as excited as we care about how the world of Blue has been developing since we last met at Bluenotes GLOBAL [...]

BlueX Onboarding – Creating: Create Surveys How You Want to with BlueX

BlueX enables you to craft your survey how you want it to look, while asking the questions that are important to you. BlueX features a free-form editor with a drag and drop interface that provides you with unprecedented flexibility to make changes any time you want. Conducting research, taking the pulse of employee engagement, building [...]

Blue 7.16 Release Q&A Learning Webinar

Blue 7.16 is available as of June 16. What’s new in Blue 7.16? In this webinar, we will go over the key new features and enhancements included in Blue 7.16. 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 [...]

Managing Cross-Listed Courses in Blue

It is not uncommon that courses are cross-listed in an institution. For example, an IT Management course in a Business School may be offered to students in the Computer Science Department. The course evaluation results for the cross-listed course would need to be available to both department reports, according to the institution's course evaluation policy [...]

Blue 7.17 Release Q&A Learning Webinar

Blue 7.17 is available as of August 16. What’s new in Blue 7.17? In this webinar, we will go over the key new features and enhancements included in Blue 7.17. After the main presentation, the webinar will be open for your questions. Join the webinar to learn and discuss how these new features and enhancements [...]

BlueX Onboarding – Managing: Monitor and Manage Responses in BlueX

Once your survey in BlueX is published, BlueX offers a range of tools to monitor and manage response rates in real time with the full visibility to survey participation status. This learning webinar is Part 2 of BlueX onboarding, covering key BlueX features and functionality to: Monitoring real time responses Managing survey tasks Sending email [...]

360 Reports: Harnessing the Power of Story Telling

Organizations can present 360 feedback in an efficient story telling manner so that it becomes a mechanism that drives meaningful change. Every type of project possesses its own narrative, and 360-reports can be set up in numerous ways to effectively convey that desired narrative. Throughout this webinar we will cover real-world examples of reporting structures [...]