In the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's decentralized evaluation management structure, Heather oversees the evaluation process in the College of Arts and Sciences, the largest unit. Meanwhile, Christina manages evaluations in the School of Pharmacy, known for its complexity. Between the two of them, they use almost the entire feature set within Explorance Blue for their course evaluation processes.

In this webinar, Heather and Christina will be sharing some of the more unique and outside-the-box ways that they use features, including Explorance Data Integrity Gateway (DIG), Question Bank (QBank), relationship demographics, triggers, Question Personalization (QP), reports, virtual questions, Dynamic Report Viewers (DRV), and more. They’ll also spend some time comparing their processes and use cases and how that is dictated by circumstances at UNC Chapel Hill or within their specific schools. While some of what they do requires expert knowledge of Explorance Blue, they still highly encourage you to try this at home!

Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Time: 2pm Eastern Time

Presented by: Heather Thompson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Christina Pomykal, UNC at Chapel Hill - Eshelman School of Pharmacy

Members in the Bluenotes Midterm Surveys Community of Practice are meeting on Thursday, January 23, 2025 @ 1pm ET to connect and share experiences. Please specify the topics you want to discuss together as a community as you register.

Date: Thursday, January 23, 2025

Time: 1pm Eastern Time

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

Members in the Bluenotes Lone Star Community of Practice are meeting on Thursday, February 6, 2025 @ 1pm CT to connect, share experiences, and continue discussions on topics such as transitioning to Blue 9, best practices for increasing student / faculty engagement to improve response rates, and qualitative comment analysis using MLY. If you have any specific topics you wish to share and/or discuss during this meetup, please feel free to let us know as you register, or on the Bluenotes Lone Star CoP discussion forum.

Date: Thursday, February 6, 2025

Time: 1pm Central Time / 2pm Eastern Time

Facilitated by CoP Co-Chair: Steven Szeszko, Alamo Colleges District

We are excited to announce a new community of practice for Blue-using institutions in the Australia and New Zealand region - the Bluenotes Down Under Community of Practice! Join your like-minded colleagues for the inaugural Bluenotes Down Under CoP meetup on Wednesday, February 12 at 2pm AEDT to connect, share experiences, and continue discussions on topics relevant to you. Please specify any topics you wish to discuss together as a community at this and future meetups as you register!

Exclusive To: Members in the Bluenotes Down Under Community of Practice

Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Time: 2pm AEDT

Members in the Bluenotes Atlantic Hurricanes Community of Practice are meeting on Thursday, February 13, 2025 @ 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: Thursday, February 13, 2025

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

Members in the Bluenotes R1 Universities Community of Practice (Blue-using R1 universities in the United States) are meeting on Thursday, February 20, 2025 @ 1pm ET to connect and share experiences. Please specify the topics you want to discuss together as a community as you register.

Date: Thursday, February 20, 2025

Time: 1pm Eastern Time

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

Bluenotes Community members are meeting for the Reporting & Analytics Community of Practice (CoP) meetup on Thursday, February 27, 2025 @ 1pm ET to exchange ideas and continue discussions on new and unique reporting setups to share in the Bluenotes Community Sharing Sandbox Instance (now on Blue 9.3). Feel free to submit any specific topics you would like to discuss together as a community as you register. You can also continue discussions and asking questions on the Reporting & Analytics CoP discussion forum.

Date: Thursday, February 27, 2025

Time: 1pm Eastern Time

Facilitated by CoP Co-Chair: John Jordi, University of Florida

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, March 13, 2025 @ 1pm ET to connect and share experiences. Please specify the topics you want to discuss together as a community as you register.

Date: Thursday, March 13, 2025

Time: 1pm Eastern Time

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

Members in the Bluenotes Medical & Health Sciences Community of Practice are meeting on Wednesday, March 19, 2025 @ 1pm ET to connect together and continue discussions on how to conduct clinical evaluations in Blue. Please specify any topics you wish to discuss together as you register. You can also continue discussions and asking questions on the Bluenotes MHS CoP discussion forum.

Date: Thursday, March 19, 2025

Time: 1pm Eastern Time

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