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What is Blue 

Explorance Blue is a feedback analytics platform that helps institutions and organizations gather, analyze, and act on feedback at scale. From course evaluations and student experience surveys to employee engagement and 360-degree feedback, Blue supports a wide range of feedback use cases. With flexible workflows, deep integration capabilities, and powerful analytics, Blue adapts to your unique structures and systems – whether centralized or decentralized. Automate survey delivery, streamline reporting, and turn feedback into meaningful insights that drive continuous improvement in student and employee experiences. 

Explorance Blue for Higher Education 

Institutions are increasingly looking for ways to boost survey response rates and streamline feedback across diverse academic structures. Explorance Blue solves this with automated workflows, deep customization, robust reporting, and seamless integration with your SIS, LMS, and other existing IT systems. It improves student participation by delivering timely, personalized surveys and simplifies feedback collection across schools, departments, and programs. With real-time response rate monitoring and automated reporting, institutions can turn feedback into actionable insights that drive teaching effectiveness and improve the student experience. 

Use Cases: 

All central and major feedback gathering initiatives within an institution, including: 

Course evaluations, Midterm surveys, Peer evaluations, 360-degree Feedback, Student engagement surveys, Clinical rotations, Placement surveys, Student exit surveys, Faculty/Staff surveys, Alumni surveys 

Explorance Blue for the Workplace 

Forward-thinking HR teams are seeking better ways to translate employee feedback into impactful organizational change. Explorance Blue simplifies the process with automated survey delivery, built-in data governance, and integration with existing HR systems. It empowers leaders with clear, real-time insights to employee engagement drivers, track trends, and make data-informed decisions. The result is stronger engagement, better performance, and a more responsive workplace culture. 

Use Cases: 

All central and major feedback gathering initiatives within an organization, including: 

Employee engagement surveys, Employee experience surveys, employee listening strategies, Voice of the employee initiatives, 360-degree feedback, Stay/exit surveys 

Key Features: 

1. Automated and Flexible Survey Management 

  • Automatically distributes personalized surveys with delegated customization across departments, roles, and programs 
  • Uses organizational hierarchies and role-based logic for targeted survey and report delivery 
  • Native support for complex course evaluation scenarios including cross-listed and team-taught courses, and unique course stat/end dates. 
  • Leverages existing data sources to minimize manual setup and reduce administrative workload 

2. Multi-Channel Delivery and Inclusive Accessibility 

  • Delivers surveys through LMS, HRIS, email, SMS, and QR codes to maximize response rates 
  • Fully responsive and compliant with WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 accessibility standards 
  • Supports multiple languages for global and diverse respondent groups 
  • Real-time response rate monitoring, built-in reporting and dashboard suites, and automated reminders to drive survey participation 

3. Insightful Reporting with Built-In Privacy and Security 

  • Offers real-time analytics, data visualizations, and contextualized reports with internal benchmarks 
  • Global Employee Engagement benchmarks across key themes such as Culture & Values, Career Development, Inclusiveness/DEI, Teamwork, and more. 
  • Enables role-based access and automated report distribution based on organizational hierarchy, roles, and responsibilities 
  • Provides AI-powered qualitative analysis through Explorance MLY for deeper understanding of open-ended feedback 
  • Ensures data privacy with configurable confidentiality settings and secure delivery workflows 

4. Seamless Integration and Centralized Oversight 

  • Integrates with SIS, LMS, HRIS, and data warehouses for a unified feedback ecosystem 
  • Automated supports for roster syncs and dynamic data updates 
  • Centralized platform to manage diverse feedback types—from engagement and satisfaction surveys to 360-degree feedback and course evaluations 

Languages Supported: 

  • Afrikaans  
  • Arabic  
  • Bahasa Mala  
  • Catalan  
  • Chinese (simplified)  
  • Chinese (Traditional)  
  • Czech  
  • Danish  
  • Dutch  
  • English 
  • French 
  • German 
  • Hebrew  
  • Hungarian  
  • Icelandic  
  • Indonesian  
  • Italian  
  • Japanese  
  • Korean 
  • Norwegian 
  • Polish  
  • Portuguese 
  • Russian 
  • Slovak 
  • Spanish 
  • Swedish 
  • Thai 
  • Turkish 
  • Vietnamese 
  • Welsh

 

1EdTech Certifications

explorance has 1 certifications for this product.

Version v8.1+

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Blue v8.1+ has completed conformance testing for the following 1EdTech Standards ...
Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) v1.3
OUT OF DATE Tool Originally Certified on Registration Number: IMSC6ee2023W2
Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) v1.3
Active Tool Certified on Registration Number: IMSC6ee2024W1


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