Learning Webinars & Community Meetups

Here you can find all the upcoming learning webinars and upcoming meetups for Regional Bluenotes Chapters and Community Interest Groups, as well as all past learning webinars.

Learning webinars for Bluenotes community members are one example of how you can globally connect and share experiences with improvement in mind. Created and presented by experts from Blue® powered institutions and experts from Explorance, these sessions will give you an opportunity to learn best practices from real Blue users.

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The Blue community is all about learning from one another. Join the long list of Blue institutions that have shared their best practices with their fellow Bluenotes community members. Let us know below if you are interested in presenting the next session.

If you want to explore sharing via a webinar, please contact us at bncommunity@explorance.com.

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Community-Led

MLY CoP Meetup: October 16

calendarWednesday, October 16th 2024, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Eastern Timezone9 days remaining

We are excited to announce the first MLY Community of Practice (CoP) meetup on Wednesday, October 16, 2024! Community members are meeting to share experiences in using MLY (including challenges) and exchange ideas for how best to use insights from qualitative feedback that MLY provides (such as alerts). If you have any specific topics you wish to discuss together during this and future MLY CoP meetups, please let us know as you register. Feel free to share, discuss, and ask questions with your like-minded peers on MLY CoP Discussion Forum.

The MLY CoP meetup will be held twice to accommodate community members in various time zones. Please register for a time most convenient to you.

Date: Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Time: Two meetups will be held to accommodate community members in various time zones. Please register for a time most convenient to you.

  • Wednesday, October 15 at 7pm ET 
  • Wednesday, October 16 at 1pm ET


Learning Webinars

Blue Dashboard 4.2 Release Q&A Webinar – What’s New in the Driver’s Seat and Under the Hood

calendarWednesday, October 23rd 2024, 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Eastern Timezone16 days remaining

Join this release webinar to learn about the new features and functionalities in Blue Dashboard 4.2! In this webinar, Explorance product experts will share the new enhancements made in Blue Dashboard 4.2, such as Blue Dashboard admin ability to refine/filter the data available to end users, supporting right-to-left languages, and more.

Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.

  • October 22, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
  • October 23, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
  • October 23, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions

Presenter: David Norenberg, Product Training Specialist, Explorance



Community-Led

Bluenotes R1 Universities CoP Meetup: October 24

calendarThursday, October 24th 2024, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Eastern Timezone17 days remaining

Members in the Bluenotes R1 Universities CoP (Blue-using R1 universities in the United States) are meeting on Thursday, October 24, 2024 @ 1pm ET to connect together and continue discussions and share learnings from Explorance World 2024. 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, October 24, 2024

Time: 1pm Eastern Time

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



Community-Led

Bluenotes Response Rates & Engagement CoP Meetup: October 30

calendarWednesday, October 30th 2024, 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM Eastern Timezone23 days remaining

Members in the Bluenotes Response Rate & Engagement Community of Practice are meeting on Wednesday, October 30, 2024 to connect, share experiences, and continue discussions from Explorance World 2024 on topics such as increasing student and faculty engagement to increase response rates. For any other topics you’d like to ask, discuss, exchange ideas together as a community, please don’t hesitate to indicate it in the registration form below, as you register. Feel free to continue discussing and asking questions on the Bluenotes Response Rates & Engagement CoP Discussion Forum.

The Bluenotes Response Rates & Engagement Community of Practice meetup will be held twice to accommodate community members in various time zones. Please register for a time most convenient to you.

Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Time: Two meetups will be held to accommodate community members in various time zones. Please register for a time most convenient to you.

  • Wednesday, October 30 at 8am ET / 2pm SAST
  • Wednesday, October 30 at 2pm ET


Learning Webinars

How Best to Customize Blue Dashboard to Inform Your Decision-Making and Improvement Actions

calendarWednesday, November 6th 2024, 08:00 AM - 09:00 AM Eastern Timezone29 days remaining

Your feedback collection process is complete and you’re ready to share the results with key stakeholders. More and more institutions are using Blue Dashboard to compliment Blue reports. Blue Dashboard allows stakeholders to explore and interpret information in an interactive way to meet their specific needs, ultimately better informing decision-making and improvement actions.

In this learning webinar, Explorance solution experts will show you how Blue Dashboard viewers can filter, compare or drill down into specific data points for a deeper analysis, helping uncover trends and patterns that might not be immediately apparent. With more advanced administrative controls available in the latest release (version 4.2), Blue Dashboard admins can customize an intuitive and user-friendly interface that simplifies the preparation of instructor portfolios for review and for other purposes. Also, you can provide links to valuable resources via the Blue Dashboard. Join this learning webinar to also see how different Blue Dashboards can be configured for different stakeholders to comply with privacy and policy requirements at your institution, as each dashboard can be tailored to display relevant metrics and insights based on the viewer’s role and needs.

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.

This learning webinar will also be delivered in French. To register for the French session, please see the separate registration form below.

Date: Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Time: Three sessions are scheduled for Bluenotes Community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.

  • November 5, 9pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the APAC regions
  • November 6, 8am Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in the Europe/Africa/Middle East regions
  • November 6, 2pm Eastern time zone, mainly for customers in Americas regions

Presenters: Explorance's Solutions Architecture Team



Learning Webinars

Comment personnaliser au mieux Blue Dashboard pour éclairer votre prise de décision et vos actions d'amélioration

calendarWednesday, November 6th 2024, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Eastern Timezone30 days remaining

Votre processus de collecte de feedback est terminé et vous êtes prêt à partager les résultats avec les principales parties prenantes. De plus en plus d'établissements utilisent Blue Dashboard en complément des rapports Blue. Blue Dashboard permet aux parties prenantes d'explorer et d'interpréter l'information de manière interactive afin de répondre à leurs besoins spécifiques, ce qui permet de mieux informer la prise de décision et les actions d'amélioration.

Dans ce webinaire d'apprentissage, les experts en solutions d'Explorance vous montreront comment les utilisateurs de Blue Dashboard peuvent filtrer, comparer ou explorer des points de données spécifiques pour une analyse plus approfondie, aidant à découvrir des tendances et des modèles qui pourraient ne pas être immédiatement apparents. Avec des contrôles administratifs plus avancés disponibles dans la dernière version, les administrateurs de Blue Dashboard peuvent personnaliser une interface intuitive et conviviale qui simplifie la préparation des portfolios d'instructeurs pour la révision et plus encore. De plus, vous pouvez fournir des liens vers des ressources précieuses via le Blue Dashboard. Participez à ce webinaire d'apprentissage pour voir également comment différents Blue Dashboard peuvent être configurés pour différentes parties prenantes afin de se conformer aux exigences de confidentialité et de politique de votre établissement, car chaque tableau de bord peut être adapté pour afficher des mesures et des perspectives pertinentes en fonction du rôle et des besoins du lecteur.

Si vous avez des questions 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.

Date: Mercredi 6 novembre 2024

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

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



Community-Led

Bluenotes Canadian Polytechnics CoP Meetup: November 13

calendarWednesday, November 13th 2024, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Eastern Timezone37 days remaining

Members in the Bluenotes Canadian Polytechnics Community of Practice are meeting on Wednesday, November 23, 2024 @ 1pm ET to connect, share experiences, and continue discussions on topics relevant to Blue-using institutions in the Canadian Polytechnics association. Please specify any topics you wish to discuss together as a community as you register! 

Exclusive To: Members in the Bluenotes Canadian Polytechnics Community of Practice

Date: Wednesday, November 13, 2024

Time: 1pm Eastern Time

Facilitated by CoP Co-Chair: Nicolette Cooney, Saskatchewan Polytechnic

 


Community-Led

Bluenotes Atlantic Hurricanes CoP Meetup: November 14

calendarThursday, November 14th 2024, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM Eastern Timezone38 days remaining

Members in the Bluenotes Atlantic Hurricanes Community of Practice are meeting on Thursday, November 14, 2024 @ 1pm ET to connect together and continue discussions on topics relevant to the Mid and South Atlantic region. 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, November 14, 2024

Time: 1pm Eastern Time

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