Description: Are you an administrator or education leader working to optimize how you collect and utilize student feedback to drive institutional changes? Interested in sharing what strategies you have implemented to create a culture where students feel comfortable providing feedback about their experience?

Presentations in this track are designed to help attendees avoid implementing student feedback projects without a well-defined strategy or approach. Speakers will touch on strategies for soliciting honest and constructive feedback from students across the academic lifecycle, as well as how Higher Education institutions can effectively incorporate the student voice into their teaching, learning and strategic decisions.

Topic Suggestions:

• The strategic benefits of a student feedback strategy.
• How to implement effective strategies and technologies for collecting student feedback from multiple sources (course/program evaluations, self-assessments and/or peer-to-peer reviews).
• The importance of leveraging AI in student feedback strategies.
• Methods employed for engaging students, faculty, and other stakeholders in the feedback process (e.g., response rate optimization, report generation, communication strategies, etc.).
• Creating a “courageous conversation” culture that values and encourages feedback.
• Aligning insights from student feedback with specific institutional goals.

Join these presentations to offer a deep dive into the world of student feedback strategies, providing insights, best practices, and solutions for educational professionals looking to enhance their feedback processes, improve the quality of education they provide, and remain competitive.

Description: A well-designed software offers a customizable and user-friendly platform for administering, collecting, analyzing, and reporting on surveys and evaluations. It should prioritize security, scalability, and integration with other IT systems (SIS, LMS), ensuring a seamless evaluation process. The software should facilitate actionable insights and data analysis.

In this track, attendees can expect presentations that delve into the capabilities of a well-designed course evaluation software, highlighting its customization options, user-friendly interface, and robust features, empowering institutional leaders at all levels to transform feedback into concrete improvements.

Topic Suggestions:

• Explore what’s possible in feedback analytics software customization and data insights.
• Strategies for change management to course and program evaluations (such as revisions to the instrument).
• Community-led demonstrations of project and report setups using Explorance Blue features (such as Question Bank, Question Personalization, Response Rate Monitoring, DIG, and Blue Dashboard).
• Best practices for, and lessons learned in, setting up projects and reports using basic and/or advanced features in Blue.
• Experience implementing the Explorance Blue product suite outside of the classroom setting (e.g., student experience, faculty experience, staff experience, alumni surveys, exit surveys, self-assessments, peer-to-peer reviews, etc.).
• AI-powered comment analysis and its capability to extract sentiment, emotions, themes, and trends from open-ended feedback comments.

Led by Explorance Blue users, presentations in this track should touch on how the technology is designed and configured to drive maximum engagement from all users. Attendees will gain practical insights and strategies to optimize how they leverage course evaluation for precise and actionable insights, ensuring that you harness the full potential of student data.

Description: Unlocking meaningful insights from student feedback data is more than just gathering information; it's about enabling timely and informed decision-making and effective interventions. These insights empower educators and administrators to make data-driven choices, adapting their teaching methods, curricula, and support services to address students' needs better. Reports play a crucial role in student retention and success by tailoring the data to specific needs and objectives, allowing different stakeholders to focus on the specific aspects of student feedback and performance that are most relevant to their goals.

Topic Suggestions:

• Skills to develop a reporting strategy that not only channels pertinent data to the appropriate stakeholders but also converts it into actionable insights for enhancing student retention, success, and teaching effectiveness.
• Explore how dashboards can provide at-a-glance insights that empower instructors, administrators, and institutional leaders.
• Explore how AI can help make the most of your data by accelerating the analysis of vast amounts of student comments and offering personalized recommendations for interventions, curriculum adjustments, and more.

Presentations in this track should be interactive and dive deep into the world of Explorance Blue reporting and analytics. Attendees will gain the knowledge and skills to develop impactful reporting strategies, design engaging dashboards, and deliver insights that fuel informed action and drive their institution toward its strategic goals.

Description: In the realm of student feedback, it's not sufficient to merely generate comprehensive reports; the primary objective is to drive meaningful actions based on insights. Beyond exceptional reporting, taking action necessitates clear responsibilities for using data to enhance teaching methods, implement innovative practices, or retire approaches that no longer serve the institution’s mission. Moreover, institutions must ensure that their academic teams possess the skills and competencies to interpret and apply the findings from their feedback data, enabling them to focus on the most critical improvements.

Topic Suggestions:

• Explore strategies to boost data literacy within your institution, enabling educators and administrators to make informed choices based on data-driven insights.
• Show approaches to facilitate “courageous conversations” among stakeholders about the insights obtained from student feedback.
• Gain insights into setting clear responsibilities for using feedback data to drive positive changes in educational practices.
• How an AI model purpose-built for Higher Education can help translate the student voice into timely and actionable data-driven insights.

Presentations in this track should be interactive working sessions that delve into the transformative journey from feedback insights to action. Attendees will learn how to equip their academic teams with the skills and mindset to harness the power of student feedback data, fostering a culture where data-driven decision-making is the driving force behind continuous improvement and educational success.