What Else Can Blue Do?

Blue’s extensive capabilities and flexibility were built with the customer in mind. How? Blue was developed to be a highly moldable tool that can be configured to your specific processes and requirements (…and beyond!) With so much functionality, it helps to be reminded of what Blue can do, from time to time.

In this article, we’re going to explore 10 popular capabilities in Blue that you can start using right away to further increase the effectiveness and efficiency of your feedback collection processes.

Program evaluations

Help program managers and directors assess the value and impact of corporate, public, and higher education programs.

Whether you’re a Dean evaluating academic support programs or a manager examining the merit or significance of organization-based programs, use Blue to support good management practices and determine if timely adjustments are needed to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of committed resources.

Question logic in surveys

Dynamically generate unique questionnaires for different respondents, depending on how they might answer particular questions.

Take this one step further with Blue and generate unique questionnaires for specific segments of the survey population by taking advantage of existing demographic data (e.g. GPA, age, location, etc.) or other related metadata (e.g., department, school, program, etc.).

Survey recipients will be more inclined to provide meaningful feedback to questionnaires that contain relevant, specific, and more personalized questions – reflecting what matters most to them.

Question personalization

Increase stakeholder engagement by empowering feedback recipients to add their own personalized questions to surveys and evaluations.

In doing so, stakeholders have the opportunity to ask questions that they care about the most, questions that can be used to help them improve professionally or used as evidence to support promotion or tenure appointment.

Time trend analysis and comparison

Discover valuable insights and drive meaningful improvements across your institution or organization with Blue’s time-trend and comparison analysis capabilities.

Measure and track progress over time by incorporating historical metrics into your reports. Compare results between different departments, divisions, or schools. Use these insights to strengthen professional portfolios as well as to support performance reviews, promotions, or tenure applications.

Questionnaire cascading with Blue Question Bank

Create and manage the repository of questions that can be used in surveys or evaluations. The Blue Question Bank is particularly useful when managing questionnaires for multiple divisions, schools, or departments that may ask different questions.

Common questions can be easily accessed, shared, and reused within your organization or across divisions to support time-trend analyses.

Rich report formatting capability

Support the unique reporting needs and requirements of various stakeholder groups with Blue’s rich report formatting capabilities. This can be especially helpful when managing reports for stakeholders at multiple levels within your organization who might require different levels of report data aggregation.

Build report templates of varying structure and content leveraging Blue’s easy-to-use report builder interface. Save your administrator hours of manual labor in subsequent projects by simply re-using and modifying pre-built report templates.

Report distribution automation via Dynamic Report Access

Manage report access and assignment quickly and painlessly. Easily re-assign access to reports when a leader changes position or is replaced by a successor.

Blue takes this one step further by making it possible to automate this process by syncing with available hierarchical data. In doing so, Blue can automatically link leaders with their own reports, saving administrators countless hours of manual report distribution.

Demographic data sync-up automation in live projects

Automatically update live projects with any changes to enrollment or demographic data. If there is a change to any stakeholder involved in a particular evaluation (after it has launched), Blue can automatically incorporate the updated data into the evaluation project; potentially affecting who the survey recipients are, when the evaluation needs to be completed and who the reports need to be sent to.

Machine Learning powered text analytics

Power your qualitative feedback analytics with Machine Learning (ML) by grouping free-form student feedback into distinct theme-based categories. Inform decision-making and drive organizational improvements by helping stakeholders quickly make sense of large quantities of open-ended feedback data.

Now stakeholders can quickly identify successes, blind spots, opportunities, and areas of improvement in an easy-to-read, highly digestible way. This can be especially useful for organizational leaders who might wish to quickly see an aggregate overview of student sentiment within a particular department or school.

Live reporting for surveys

View real-time report results for surveys that are perpetually collecting responses (i.e. onboarding surveys, campus satisfaction surveys, etc.)