Feedback Management Software Designed from the Ground up with Educational Institutions In Mind
Some things seem meant to be together. Chocolate and vanilla. Laurel and Hardy. Salt and pepper. Find one and it won’t be long before the other shows up. That’s the way it’s quickly becoming for another pairing that have found a mutually rewarding partnership. The higher education industry and Blue by eXplorance™ – eXplorance’s enterprise feedback management software.
In a higher learning environment, the need to know how you’re perceived – by students, faculty and staff – is the lifeblood that keeps your institution vibrant and consistently meeting the needs of internal and external communities.
For those that are charged with the awesome responsibility of staying on top of what students are feeling, it is crucial to be aware of the prevailing sentiment that exists in order to ensure that courses and their broader learning environment are as responsive as possible to the needs of their students.
Blue allows you to feel your constituents’ pulse – easily, quickly and from anywhere or at any time.
Institutional Research
- Student departure surveys
- Instructor/course evaluations
- Midterm reviews
- Online placements tests
- Student/alumni surveys
- Survey tools for policy research
HR & Organization Development
- 360 feedback reviews
- Climate/culture surveys
- Employee surveys
- Exit interviews
- Psychometric assessments
Students & Instructors
- Student 360 feedback reviews
- Online practice tests
- Student-run surveys
- Faculty-run surveys
- Online tests/exams management
Provosts
You’re charged among other things, with seeking your university’s accreditation.
No one knows better than you that the most effective way to accomplish that objective is by being able to measure the quality and effectiveness of the education you offer.
The closer you can stay to the prevailing feeling of the day, the better chance you have to ensure your offering is hitting the mark.
Blue can equip you with evaluation and survey tools that can reduce feedback initiatives from weeks of preparation to having the feedback you need on your desk – within hours.
Institutional Research
In a world where quantitative results have become the yardstick by which universities are measured these days, the spotlight is on you to produce useful information and insights.
If you’re like most IR professionals, you can have 50-90 surveys launching at the same time. That’s in addition to a flood of course evaluations you’re responsible for executing.
That’s a lot on anyone’s plate.
Blue enterprise feedback management software was designed for your world. Its integration and automation capabilities allow your constituents to connect from anywhere, anytime, using any means possible. Blue transforms reluctant responders into willing participants.
Also, imagine being able to evaluate 8,000 entities using the same effort it would take to do 18? Blue puts that power in your hands
Poor response rates?
Blue drives them right off your radar with integration & flexibility features that gives you the power to deliver meaningful information out to your audience via student portals.
Moreover, Blue allows for the easy inclusion of course evaluation results into the course registration process, as well as instructor performance appraisals.
So you can drive the content in addition to collecting the feedback.
IT Directors & CIOs
It comes down to one word: Leverage.
Surveys, course evaluations, appraisals and all the other processes universities use to gather feedback are extremely labor intensive.
While seemingly endless hours go into these initiatives, other needed IT are delayed or worse, cancelled, because all the existing resources are being drained to prop up an inefficient feedback management process.
Blue changes all that.
The integration and automation horsepower Blue puts into the hands of IT management allows them to streamline their feedback management process and use the freed up time to get to projects that have been set aside.
Blue is an integrated suite of enterprise feedback management software products that work together to capture feedback about all stakeholders in your organization.
To you this means an opportunity to increase quality of learning and your organization’s capability to continuously enhance its offering.
Just like we’re already doing for our higher education customers like the University of Louisville, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Toronto, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, the Lebanese American University and Rio Salado College.
To see for yourself just how Blue can add value to your institution, don’t hesitate to contact an eXplorance expert consultant.