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See how your survey engagement strategies rank on a global stage.
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March 1 to April 30, 2026

The Global Response Rates Tournament

The Global Response Rates Tournament brings together survey leaders from the Explorance community to see how their engagement strategies rank on a global stage. Join the competition and contribute to a benchmark report that elevates student and employee feedback.

A Global Event Built for Survey Leaders 

The Global Response Rates Tournament is designed for higher education, human resources, and corporate learning professionals who want to increase response rates for student, employee, or organizational surveys worldwide. This tournament is ideal for professionals in the following domains:

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Higher education

Institutional research, teaching & learning centers, student affairs, survey administrators.

Workplaces

Workplaces

HR, L&D, employee experience, organizational development, culture teams specializing in staff, faculty, and workplace culture.

Survey administration

Survey administration

Any organizational department or role that runs surveys and wants to improve engagement.

By sharing your survey results between March 1 and April 30, 2026, you’ll put your response rate strategies to the test and compete to win global recognition compared to your peers. You’ll also lend your voice to the Global Response Rate Benchmarking Report that will highlight trends, proven tactics, and results across a variety of participant segments.

Winner announcements and overall results will debut at Explorance World 2026.

Why Response Rates Are Crucial to Feedback Loops

High survey response rates encourage more trust and engagement across your campus or workplace, delivering benefits that include:

  • More representative feedback that reflect the true perspectives of all respondents
  • Better decisions driven by holistic data that support everyone in your organization
  • Higher satisfaction across groups when respondents see policy updates tied to their input
  • Clearer direction for managers and faculty for how they can support more growth effectively
  • Stronger retention and trust, with students and employees staying longer when they feel heard
Why Response Rates Are Crucial to Feedback Loops

Take Steps to Optimize Your Survey Response Rates

Students and employees are more likely to complete evaluations when you reach them through familiar channels at the right moment. Explorance's software solution gives you multiple delivery options so you can match your approach to how your audience already engages.

LMS integration

For higher education institutions, deliver surveys directly in Canvas, Blackboard, or Moodle, so students can respond without leaving their learning environment.

LMS integration

Email reminders

Schedule automated reminder emails that adjust timing or delivery based on survey recipient response behavior.

Email reminders

QR code access

Replicate on-site paper response rates by letting students or employees scan a QR code and complete evaluations on their phones.

QR code access

SMS notifications

Send text message reminders that reach survey recipients directly on the devices they use most.

SMS notifications

Incentivize the survey process

Offer entry into a prize drawing or a small reward to encourage respondents to complete their surveys before the deadline.

Incentivize the survey process

Why Your Organization Should Participate

1. To Compete

1. To Compete

  • Rank among the best on global survey response leaderboards
  • Have your organization recognized at Explorance World 2026
  • Celebrate wins with your faculty, staff, or organizational teams
2. To Contribute

2. To Contribute

  • Share anonymized response rate data for a worldwide benchmark
  • Access insights that show which tactics drive results globally
  • Help produce a shared knowledge base that benefits your communities

Join the Global Response Rates Tournament in 4 Easy Steps

The process is straightforward for both higher ed institutions and corporate environments.

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Step 1: Register Your Institution or Organization

Complete the registration form on this page once. You'll receive a confirmation email with next steps, including the link to the form you'll use to submit your survey response rate(s).

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Step 2: Launch Your Surveys and Collect Data

Run your surveys using your existing Blue, BlueX, or Metrics That Matter (MTM) setup. Track your response rates internally.

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Step 3: Submit Your Response Rate Results

Fill out the tournament response rates form. Add your response rate(s) screenshot(s) and submit. You can submit as many times as you want.

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Step 4: Track Your Leaderboard Ranking

View category leaderboards to see where you stand. Rankings update throughout the tournament.

Join the Global Response Rates Tournament in 4 Easy Steps

The process is straightforward for both higher ed institutions and corporate environments.

Step 1: Register Your Institution or Organization

Step 1: Register Your Institution or Organization

Complete the registration form on this page once. You'll receive a confirmation email with next steps, including the link to the form you'll use to submit your survey response rate(s).

Step 2: Launch Your Surveys and Collect Data

Step 2: Launch Your Surveys and Collect Data

Run your surveys using your existing Blue, BlueX, or Metrics That Matter (MTM) setup. Track your response rates internally.

Step 3: Submit Your Response Rate Results

Step 3: Submit Your Response Rate Results

Fill out the tournament response rates form. Add your response rate(s) screenshot(s) and submit. You can submit as many times as you want.

Step 4: Track Your Leaderboard Ranking

Step 4: Track Your Leaderboard Ranking

View category leaderboards to see where you stand. Rankings update throughout the tournament.

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Get your tickets to the only conference dedicated exclusively to feedback analytics and its strategic place within organizations. Highly rated for its thought leadership content and hands-on sessions, attendees gain knowledge crucial to their roles and can apply it quickly and effectively in their day-to-day.

Global Organizations, One Goal: Better Feedback

Whether you run student surveys or employee engagement programs, your organization competes in categories tailored to your context. We analyze your results based on response rate percentage, response counts, and survey audience size. Then, we normalize the data to produce fair rankings across different organization sizes and survey types.

Higher Education Categories

  • Highest Overall Response Rate 
  • Most Improved Response Rate 
  • Small Class Champion (<30 students) 
  • Large Class Champion (>200 students) 
  • Faculty Engagement Award 
  • Student Voice Champion (highest average response across courses) 
Higher Education Categories

Workplace Categories

  • Highest Overall Response Rate 
  • Most Improved Response Rate 
  • Small Company Champion (<250 employees) 
  • Mid-Size Company Champion (250–1,000 employees) 
  • Large Enterprise Champion (1,000+ employees) 
  • Manager Champion 
  • Employee Voice Champion 
Workplace Categories

Milestone Badges

  • 50%+ Response Rate Achiever 
  • 70%+ Response Rate Achiever 
  • Most Improved 
  • Regional Champion 
  • Category Winner 
Milestone Badges

Get Insights Relevant
to Your Organization

At the end of the tournament, participants receive access to the Global Response Rates Benchmark Report, a data-driven publication built entirely from aggregated tournament results.

The report will include: 

  • Benchmarks by geographic region, industry, and organization size 
  • Average response rate insights that determine top performers 
  • Success stories and testimonials from standout participants
  • Practical guidance drawn from real participant tactics
  • Tournament highlights and category winners 

Make sure you get your copy of this resource by pre-saving it today.

Get Insights Relevant
to Your Organization

Practical, Actionable Insights You Can Apply Immediately 

By lending your voice to this benchmarking event, you'll discover:

  • Strategies that consistently boost survey participation
  • Execution tactics from top-performing institutions and companies 
  • How closing the loop drastically improves trust and response rates over time 
  • Emerging global trends across different higher education and corporate environments
  • Insights on how instructor, manager, or leadership engagement can influence participation 

These learning outcomes will strengthen your programs long after the tournament ends.

Practical, Actionable Insights You Can Apply Immediately 

Your Data Privacy Matters While You Compete

Organizations can rest assured that this tournament collects only response rate summaries, not individual responses or survey content. All data is aggregated, anonymized, and benchmarked alongside organizations of similar size, region, and vertical.

Explorance adheres to strict data protection standards to ensure that no identifiable participant-level data is collected or shared. Your rankings remain secure and benchmarking insights remain fair and context-aware.

Your Data Privacy Matters While You Compete
Resources

Get Response Rates Strategies and Best Practices

How to Increase Student Response Rates
Guide
How to Increase Student Response Rates
Abu Dhabi University: Transforming Program Feedback with a 90% Survey Response Rate
Case Study
Abu Dhabi University: Transforming Program Feedback with a 90% Survey Response Rate
UNLV: Achieving a 75%+ Course Evaluation Response Rate with Robust Integrations
Case Study
UNLV: Achieving a 75%+ Course Evaluation Response Rate with Robust Integrations
FAQ

Global Response Rates Tournament FAQs

Any other questions?

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The tournament is designed for Explorance customers using any of the solutions that make up the Feedback Analytics Suite.

Yes. Only aggregated response rate summaries are used. No personal or survey-level content is collected.

The Global Response Rates Tournament dashboards are regularly updated throughout the event window.

You qualify for a tournament badge when you hit milestones such as response rates over 50% or 70%, Regional Champion, Most Improved, or winning a category.

You can participate in the event using any surveys you run during the designated event timeframe.

The year's winners will be announced at Explorance World 2026, with full recognition across digital channels. More in-depth benchmarks will follow during Fall 2026 via the full results report.

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