Out now - Explorance Blue 9.3 is now available
Explorance Blue 9.3 introduces a wealth of new features designed to offer you deeper insights and broaden your opportunities for gathering and understanding your organization’s feedback. Learn all about the new features by checking out the release notes for Blue 9.3. Now is the perfect time to upgrade!
Release Highlights
Access As
- Facilitating the verification and troubleshooting of a user's Home, including their task and report listings.
Bulk report download
- Empowering users to download multiple reports simultaneously for their records.
Blackboard Ultra course blocking
- Activating more tools to encourage engagement in your LMS.
Other capabilities and updates
Rater selection UX enhancements
Improvements to rater selection for 360s and multi-rater assessments now include the ability to hide empty groups, enhanced user search, and more prominent action buttons.
3-Level Relationship
Designed for institutions with multiple instructors per course, this new configuration allows admins to define relationships between students, instructors, and course/section IDs, resulting in a more manageable and accurate instructor selection process by each student.
Blue Item Bank 4.0
Version 4 of the Item Bank, developed by the University of Toronto, aligns with the Cascaded Framework to further streamline the process of selecting the appropriate questions for different cohorts within your organization.
Default password
Adds an option in Blue's built-in authentication enabling users without a corporate email address to log in to Blue.
Configurable login SSO
Adds new UI login options for organizations with multiple SSOs.
Afrikanns language pack
Blue now offers full support for Afrikaans across all its features, including surveys, tasks, reports, Home, and other end-user spaces.
French updates
In response to customer feedback, we have updated the interface with revised French captions, ensuring a more accurate and intuitive experience for French-speaking users from project creation to report viewing.
Accessibility enhancements
Our commitment to accessibility and providing an equivalent experience for all users is further elevated thanks to exceptional customer feedback.
Brightspace Rest-GraphQL
A new method is available to synchronize Blue and Brightspace/D2L data.
Azure support
Blue 9 can now be deployed on Azure, enabling hosting in a customer's region for improved performance, governance, and compliance.
Ready to upgrade?
Please contact Explorance Support to plan your Blue 9.3 upgrade. Considering the end-of-year holiday season, we anticipate the earliest upgrade windows to be in January.
Blue 8 will continue to receive support. For more information about Blue 8 long-term support, visit this link.
Learning Webinar
Join us for the Blue 9.3 Release and Q&A Webinars on Wednesday, January 08, 2025
This webinar is scheduled to be delivered multiple times for our community members in different time zones worldwide. Select a session that best fits your schedule.
Register for the Blue 9.3 Release and Q&A Webinars on January 08
Frequently Asked Questions
Q. What if I am using Blue 8, can I upgrade to DIG 3?
A. No, to upgrade to DIG 3, you must be using Blue 9.2 and above.
Q. What if I am using Blue 8, can I upgrade to Blue Dashboard 4.1?
A. Yes, it is possible to upgrade to Dashboard 4.1 provided you are using Blue 8.1.2 or 9.2 and above.
Q. Can I still continue to use Blue 8?
A. Yes, we encourage you to schedule your upgrade to Blue 9, however Blue 8 will continue to be supported. To learn more, consult the Blue 8 Long-Term Support Notice.
If you have any questions about the Blue 9.3, please contact the Explorance Product Team.
Sincerely,
Explorance Product Team