2021 - Learning webinars

Below is a list of past learning webinar sessions in 2021.

To see the upcoming webinars, visit the webinar announcements in the Bluenotes community website.

To see past webinars led by Blue-using institutions about their experience using Blue, visit the archived community-led webinars in the Bluenotes community website.

Date	Topic	Description
November 19 , 2021	Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting – How to Identify and Prevent Common Issues in Blue	Why aren’t my emails going out? Why aren’t students able to access the evaluation forms? Why is the wrong teacher being evaluated? Why are my report viewers all wrong? How do I get Dynamic Role Access to work? In this webinar, we will show you how to verify, check, and test your data to prevent common issues when running projects in Blue. Join this webinar to learn how to identify other common configuration issues and what to do to prevent them. These tips and tricks will help to ensure a successful course evaluation process and improve your day-to-day efficiencies when administering Blue.
November 03, 2021	Course evaluations, peer reviews, and self-assessment: a unified approach to holistic teaching feedback	By gathering feedback from course evaluations, peer reviews, and a self-assessment together, institutions can now strengthen a system to define, develop, evaluate, refine, and finally reward teaching excellence, as well as to ensure that teaching evaluations are equitable, transparent, and aligned to the institution’s teaching excellence guidelines. Join the webinar where we will demonstrate how Blue can unify feedback inputs to deliver actionable insights, while simplifying teaching evaluations.
October 22, 2021	Preparing your Data to Take Advantage of Relationship Demographics in Blue	Join this webinar to learn how to work with relationship demographics to provide more flexibility and control over the course evaluation and reporting processes. Utilizing additional data fields will offer you more options for setting triggers, different types of filters, and other conditional rules. As a result, students can select whom or what to evaluate while providing more granular options for reporting.
August 19, 2021	Blue 8.0.2 Q&A Release	Blue 8.0.2 is available as of August 17. In this short webinar, we will go over the features and enhancements included in Blue 8.0.2. One of our developers will be available for questions following the presentation. Join the webinar to learn and discuss how these new features and enhancements can help your institutions.
July 6, 2021	More about Blue 8 – Dynamic Days, Self-Enrollment, and Answering your Questions	Continuing with the exploration of Blue 8's features and development, we will cover how Dynamic Days are managed. We will also dive into a new feature that will make it easy to gather feedback when all or a portion of your audience isn't known in advance: Self-Enrollment. Finally, we have received many questions about Blue 8, and we will take the opportunity to share some of those questions and their answers during the webinar.
July 6, 2021	Feedback Analysis with the Blue Dashboard	The Blue Dashboard supports data-driven decision making at every level of the organization, with flexible data management rules to distribute the right content to the right audience. Learn how stakeholders in every area of the organization can safely explore and make data-driven decisions in one feedback friendly environment. We will also show you the capabilities included in the upcoming Blue Dashboard 3.0 release, including the Aggregate Feedback Dashboard module which is the space to analyze results at the organizational and per-unit levels in a way that stakeholders in every area of the organization can safely explore and make feedback-informed decisions, as well as dynamic role access for Aggregate Feedback Dashboard to ensure that Aggregate Feedback Dashboard users only access relevant data to their function or role.
March 17, 2021	Changing/Updating Task Dates in Published Projects in Blue	Last year, Blue 7.13 introduced the ability to automatically update demographic information in live projects. Allowing such demographic updates after publication was eagerly anticipated. In addition to that functionality came the ability to update Task dates in live projects, and not just static dates, Dynamic Days calculations as well! When date changes need to happen (or happen in the SIS data) they can now be updated in the project and pulled through to update the live tasks. This webinar will walk through the process and particular cases and pitfalls.
February 18, 2021	Diving into Blue 8 Enhancements: Scheduling, Rater Selection, and the Survey Fill Out Experience	This is part one of a two-part learning webinar series presenting key enhancements made to improve the end-user experience in Blue 8. We will be going over changes in the user experience for survey fill out as well as the rater selection for 360 and/or 180 reviews. Additionally, we will present the following features.