Blue Course Evaluation
Welcome to Blue, our new course evaluation platform!
Blue is a comprehensive tool that collects feedback from students and instructors to evaluate course effectiveness and make data-driven decisions. It offers an intuitive interface for students to complete course evaluations, supports multiple question types, and presents compiled data in actionable reports for instructors. Blue ensures anonymous feedback, provides comprehensive evaluation reports to instructors and administrators, and ensures data security through industry-standard measures.
Review our resources below on how to navigate the platform and additional features that you may be interested in. If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with our support team by submitting a ticket.
1. Accessing Blue
You can access the course evaluation site at emilycarru.bluera.com/emilycarru/ and select the correct user group you are in. You will be prompted to sign in via email if not already signed in.
Alternatively, you can access the course evaluation platform through the following options
In your ECUAD inbox look for an email from crsevals-support@ecuad.ca and click on the 'Link to Course Evaluation Platform (BLUE)' link
STUDENT:
FACULTY:
This will redirect you to the course evaluation site.
Login to Moodle
Navigate to your desired course. In this scenario we will be selecting 'Blue tester course 104'
Under the Course tab click on Course Evaluation
Under the Current Evaluations tab select the course you would like to access. This will send you to the login page.
Login to Moodle
Navigate to your desired course. In this scenario we will be selecting 'Blue tester course 104'
Enable edit mode, top right corner
Add an activity or resource
Type in "external tool" into the search box and select External tool
Fill in the following information under General then select Save and return to course
- Name activity "Course Evaluation"
- Set preconfigured tool to "Course Evaluations"
Under the Course tab click on Course Evaluation
Under the Current Evaluations tab select the course you would like to access. This will send you to the login page
Login to Self-Service
On the home page select the blue link
This will redirect you to the login page
2. Navigation
Navigation will be different for both Students and Faculty.
Submitting Course Evaluation
Select Start Now on this page
Fill out your feedback form as desired. Once done select submit at the end.
You can also select the save button at the top right if you aren't ready to submit but want to save your answers.
If there are other courses you can provide feedback to it will show on the following page and you can select Start now and repeat the same process!
On the home page for the faculty portal you have a few options.
a) Subject Management: This is a view that will allow you to see all activity related to your evaluations on a single page. From this page you will be able to view response rates and reports.
- Filters - Allows you to filter evaluations displayed according to their status
- Ready - Ready means the evaluation is set to begin. You may still have some optional tasks to complete, so take note of on-screen instructions. This is typically the first stage of the evaluation process.
- Live - The evaluation has started. Your respondents can access their tasks through email, LMS or by other means communicated with them already. If you see a QR code option, you may also display it to encourage your students during in-person or remote sessions.
- Completed - The evaluation has ended and students will no longer be able to fill out the evaluation.
- Pending - A Pending status means your Blue administrator has made this evaluation optional. No evaluations will be sent out unless you or someone authorized to manage this evaluation launches it. This is typically seen in midterm evaluations.
- Expired - This status will only appear if a Pending evaluation was not launched by a certain date.
- Opted out - You (or someone authorized) has chosen to skip this evaluation. No invitations will be sent and no results will be collected for this evaluation.
- Paused - The evaluation has been paused. This will temporarily prevent students from providing feedback until it is unpaused and goes Live again. This is useful if you started the evaluation prematurely and want to start it again at a later date.
- Sort by - Allows you to sort your list by due date or course name.
- Status - Indicates the evaluation status.
- Evaluation - Displays the course feedback.
- Participant details - Indicates the number of participants who were invited, started, responded, and opted out of the evaluation.
- Response rate - Displays the number of responses the evaluation has received.
- End date - Displays the deadline for students to complete the evaluation.
- Reports - Allows you to view reports once released.
- More Options - Displays more options including:
- View QR code - Print or display the QR code for your evaluation to students during remote or in-class sessions to encourage participation.
- View respondents - Lists the respondents to your evaluation. From this screen you can also email all respondents that haven't completed their submission yet.
b) View single evaluation: Same as subject management. This allows you to view the response rates but for that specific project.
c) Response Rate (Participation Dashboard): The response rate monitor provides tools to engage in monitoring your ongoing evaluation projects, analyze response levels.
Overall Response Status Chart: Use to monitor the response rate for the evaluations, which displays a comprehensive breakdown of the response statuses for all available evaluations.
Subject Progress and Performance Chart: This chart brings attention to potential real-time problems in meeting response rate goals so that areas of concern can be proactively managed early in the evaluation schedule. With those insights, action can be taken to improve response rates.
- The X-axis represents the evaluation period.
- The Y-axis represents total number of subjects being evaluated.
- Milestones indicate the percentage of the evaluation period that has elapsed.
- Targets indicate the percentage of responses that have been completed for a subject.
- Each vertical bar on the chart represents all subjects that are within the same evaluation milestone.
- Each color on a bar represents the number of subjects that have reached that particular response target.
Subject list table: This table provides subject specific information. Having detailed information on hand about the subjects that are struggling to meet their evaluation response rate targets enables users to take targeted action that can have a meaningful impact on final response rates.
Response Analytics: The response analytics charts let you learn more about the what, when, where and how students are responding. Spot trends by selecting a segment of any of the Response analytics charts and the other charts will update automatically and display just the data from the highlighted segment.
d) View Reports: Select a report you wish to review. A new page will open listing all relevant reports.
- Select a report from your list. A new page will open.
- Faculty members have the option to view their reports online by clicking a report link or to download a pdf file for record keeping.
Name incorrect?
Your course evaluation should show your chosen name. If you have not set this up please click here
System Requirements
Cookies must be enabled on any web browser that will be accessing Blue.
Blue users may routinely be sent email notifications regarding tasks assigned to them and will need to access their tasks through a web browser.
Still having issues?
For the following three errors, you will need to close your window and sign in again.
Multiple profile error, if you have several roles in the system and try to enter another role you will see this message. To resolve this you need to sign out of all existing sessions and login to the needed profile.
You will see this message below if you're a faculty member who is not teaching a course in the Fall 2023 semester or if you are a student/staff member that's not enrolled in a Fall 2023 course.
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