Evaluation of teaching, be it on a course or a modular level, is often a two-faceted exercise – addressing accountability needs and pursuing a more open, reflective agenda such as enhancement of teaching and learning practice. The majority of HE institutions in the UK use standardised questionnaires for module evaluation. Whilst necessary for quality assurance [...]
Feedback can occur as a powerful stream of potentially useful information. But that flow is often both unidirectional and ‘unfinished’. The School of Biological Sciences at University of Aberdeen adopted Bluepulse 2 because we were interested in closing the feedback loop. We recognise that, for many students, this can often only be fully achieved by [...]
As an application manager my role is to provide professors and administrators with the tools they need to do the best job they can. Blue has comprehensive reporting functionality and the ability to present data in an easy-to-read and colourful format. However, when the University of Ottawa implemented Blue we had the mandate to recreate [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What if we shifted the conversation from talking about response rates to talking about engagement? How do we define engagement with respect to course evaluations, and why does it matter? This webinar will explore the University of Toronto’s efforts to do just that. We will provide an overview of our context and explore how we [...]
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 [...]
One of the key challenges when adopting a new technology or a new system is change management. Northwestern University had a long history of sharing course evaluation results with various stakeholders – students, faculties, and administrations. Thus, keeping the existing reports sharing experience with students, faculties, and administrations was identified as a key success factor [...]
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, [...]
Congrats! You finished implementing Blue at your institution, and the course evaluation projects are live. Student feedback data is coming in…but what do you do with it? Who do you send it to? How do you store it? How do you make meaningful reports based on the data you collected? This webinar will show how [...]
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 [...]
The presentation discusses the process of adoption and university-wide implementation of the Bluepulse (ACU Unitpulse) formative feedback tool at Australian Catholic University (ACU). The presentation highlights some of the challenges in encouraging staff to make use of ACU Unitpulse and make timely improvements to the learning experience of ACU students while a study period is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
At Loughborough we use a network of Feedback Administrators across the University who do the groundwork for Module Feedback with a little DIGing; helping to sow the seeds for Module Feedback in the different Schools across campus and making the Module Feedback set-up process victorious. We will discuss why the DIG (Data Integrity Gateway) is [...]
Can course evaluation results tell us anything about student learning? Sheridan has created a robust multivariate model that allows us to objectively measure (isolate) the extent to which a high-quality learning experience differentially impacts learning in subsequent courses (vs. lower-quality learning experiences). The effect is significant and meaningful; independent of grades (and several other variables), [...]
What could be challenging about implementing one survey for an entire campus? One that must be available on the university’s own mobile app. With emails that conform to strict branding standards. And have optional comments. Plus reports for seemingly random people. Just for fun let’s go live during summer when there are 8 different sessions. [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
