Blue 7 Learning Webinar: Managing Your Questionnaire To Support Large, Role-Based Evaluations

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 [...]

Create Condensed Summary Reports with the Spreadsheet Block in Blue 7

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. [...]

Multiple Datasource Challenges in Course and Teaching Evaluations? University of Auckland’s Experience in Using Data Sync Tool

How to locate and link data from multiple sources has become one of the common challenges for many tertiary institutions in administering course and teaching evaluations. The University of Auckland was confronted with the same challenge, when course and teaching evaluations were moved to the centralised online system on eXplorance’s Blue platform. We used Data [...]

Ask an eXpert, December 2017

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 [...]

Blue Implementation in a Decentralized Environment: The Case of UNC-Chapel Hill

One eXplorance executive described the Blue implementation at the University of North Carolina as the most complex implementation the company has done. Administrators from UNC Chapel Hill will use this webinar to describe the complex nature of course evaluations at UNC-Chapel Hill and the challenges they faced, and mostly overcame, in the hopes of helping [...]

Learn How Faculty Can Manage End of Term Surprises by Leveraging Bluepulse for Formative Feedback

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 [...]

A Tale of Two Faculties: Course Evaluation Implementation at a Large University, a Study of Contrasts and Lessons Learned

The University of Toronto is in a phased process of implementing the University of Toronto’s Cascaded Course Evaluation Framework (CCEF). The CCEF aims to represent both centralized and decentralized teaching and learning priorities across various multiple levels of the University (e.g. faculties or divisions, departments, instructors). In this webinar, we share insights gained through two [...]

Blue Native LMS Integration

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 [...]

Yes, It Is Possible to Achieve 85% Response Rates to Course Evaluations for Online Programs

As post-secondary institutions are offering online programs, the challenge is about how to get the response rates to course evaluations of online courses that will provide statistically meaningful data. Washtenaw Community College (WCC) has over 120 credit programs where approximately 28,000 students enroll annually. This webinar will present the strategies that WCC employed to achieve [...]

Data Visualization in Blue Reporting: How Data Visualization Can Impact Your Reporting Insights

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 [...]

Bluepulse Faculty On-boarding: Connecting with Students Using Bluepulse, a Social Formative Feedback Platform

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 [...]

Engage Faculty in the Feedback Process using QP

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 [...]

Bluepulse Faculty On-boarding: Connecting with Students Using Bluepulse, a Social Formative Feedback Platform

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 [...]

A Road Toward the Institution-wide Adoption of Formative Feedback Practices with Bluepulse for Student Success

A paradigm shift in assessment culture has emphasized the importance of on-going formative assessment feedback to monitor student learning experience, which can be used by instructors to improve their teaching and by students to improve their learning achievement. Education Affiliates operates a network of post-secondary schools offering various career programs such as nursing, medical, dental, [...]

Definitions? All You Want to Know About the Definition Types in Blue

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 [...]

CanvasLIVE: Improvement is Personal – An Alternative Approach to Course Evaluation Implementation with Decision Support at Heart

Imagine bringing together a group of leaders across many higher education institutions. Imagine tasking them to come up and agree upon ten improvement based questions. Imagine asking these same ten questions to thousands of students and interpreting the insights within. How useful do you believe the data would be in guiding every one of your [...]

Blue 7 Features: How to Use Relationship Demographics to Shape the Behavior of Course Evaluations and Provide More Flexibility in Running your Projects

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 [...]

Tackling the Challenge of Gaining Institution-wide Buy-in and Adoption of Formative Feedback using Bluepulse

In the panel, Higher-Education thought leaders will discuss “Why use Bluepulse for formative feedback?” in their own institutions, along with use cases and key drivers such as social equality, inclusion, learning outcomes, faculty development, etc. In addition, panel members will discuss potential obstacles that need to be addressed and strategies for overcoming them, as they [...]

Managing Data Changes During Your Course Evaluation

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 [...]

The Latest Version of Blue – Reporting and Question Bank

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 [...]