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Overview

Blue
Blue
4.6
(50)

Pricing

Starting at $7,500.00 per year

About Blue

Power your skills assessment, competency assessment, and talent review processes with Blue and connect the dots across your talent landscape.

Key features include:
AUTOMATION - advanced integration capabilities with your organization's HRIS, Portal, and SSO.

FLEXIBILITY - handle your most complex 360 degree feedback use cases.

ANALYTICS - provide powerful reports and insights to all roles and levels in your organization, quickly.

EFFICIENCY - centralize your 360 degree evaluation process, including monitoring participation, resetting submissions, changing rater assignments, etc.

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Blue Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $7,500.00 per year
Free Trial
Free Version

Basic

$7,500.00

flat rate, per year

No plan information available

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    Blue Features

    • Popular features found in 360 Degree Feedback
      Anonymous Feedback
      Customizable Forms
      Data Import/Export
      Employee Database
      Individual Development Plans
      Performance Review Management
      Question Library
      Rater Selection
      Self Service Portal
    • More features of Blue
      360 Degree Feedback
      Access Controls/Permissions
      Action Management
      Activity Dashboard
      Alerts/Notifications
      API
      Approval Process Control
      Assessment Management
      Benchmarking
      Communication Management
      Competency Management
      Continuous Feedback
      CRM
      Customizable Branding
      Customizable Questions
      Customizable Reports
      Customizable Templates
      Dashboard
      Email Reminders
      Employee Engagement
      Employee Management
      Employee Onboarding
      Engagement Tracking
      Feedback Management
      Goal Setting/Tracking
      Mobile Access
      Multi-Channel Distribution
      Negative Feedback Management
      NPS Survey Structure
      Offboarding
      Performance Metrics
      Progress Tracking
      Pulse Surveys
      Ratings/Reviews
      Real-Time Analytics
      Real-Time Data
      Real-Time Notifications
      Real-Time Reporting
      Reminders
      Reporting/Analytics
      Reporting & Statistics
      Self Assessment
      Skills Assessment
      Survey Builder
      Survey/Poll Management
      Surveys & Feedback
      Third-Party Integrations
      Visual Analytics

    Blue Integrations

    Moodle
    Moodle
    BambooHR
    BambooHR
    Brightspace
    Brightspace
    Cornerstone HR
    Cornerstone HR
    Microsoft SQL Server
    Microsoft SQL Server
    Zendesk Suite
    Zendesk Suite

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    Blue User Reviews

    Overall Rating

    4.6

    Ratings Breakdown

    5

    66%

    4

    28%

    3

    6%

    2

    0%

    1

    0%

    Secondary Ratings

    Ease of Use

    3.8

    Value for money

    4.3

    Customer support

    4.8

    Functionality

    4.5

    Shirimpaka's profile

    Shirimpaka J.

    Verified reviewer

    Education Management

    51-200 employees

    Used weekly for less than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed May 2019

    Blue Evaluation software

    4

    Actually, The overall experience is very good. In my Organization, we have managed to receive enough feedback from the students and we make changes to the course as well as the teacher based on the feedback received from our students.

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    4
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    I like the way it is quick, and I can easily track the progress of the students who responded to the survey and those who did not respond. I like also the way I can send any information as the email to the group of students assigned to any task.
    Cons:
    Sometimes it is challenging to wait for the system to be synchronized. This is a serious issue when it comes to the time I may choose to block the course of the students who do not respond to the evaluations, and when some of them see the course blocked and they respond the survey, I takes me again to be informed and synchronize manually, which I think it could be automated, because in case I am busy in other tasks, It can be a challenge for the students who filled the evaluations to get access on the Canvas page (for my case as we use Canvas).

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    MM

    Matthew M.

    Verified reviewer

    Higher Education

    5001-10000 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed October 2021

    Exceeding expectations and solving business needs

    5

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    5
    Customer support
    4
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    This software allowed us to transition from paper based to electronic reviews. It provided a large community of experienced users from which to learn best practices. It created a safe, reliable platform to maximize our evaluation process.
    Cons:
    when a subject changes their evaluation dates, they are not reflected in all the related data tables. dynamic dates do update when reminder emails are sent. course questions vs. instructor questions and how to configure in reports.

    Reasons for choosing Blue

    Because blue has a better design for course evaluations

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    CD

    Carley D.

    Higher Education

    1001-5000 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed April 2018

    Blue is a multi-dimensional course evaluation tool that can be scaled to work for any institution.

    5

    Ability to schedule automatic report openings and closings based on dynamic date rules--like open at 60% of the semester and close reports at 90% of semester.

    Ratings Breakdown

    3
    Ease of use
    Previously 2
    4
    Value for money
    Previously 2
    4
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    The customizable solution will adapt to any institution's need... even to different scenarios within the same institution. The automatic report generation at the end of the survey was a must-have for us.
    Cons:
    Difficult to set up for the first time... even with the help of the trainers. It takes a lot of time. The additional company trainings are expensive, and after two years, our team doesn't feel like we are capable of building new reports on our own.

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    cg

    candace g.

    Verified reviewer

    Higher Education

    1001-5000 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed November 2021

    great product - great company

    5

    Blue is a great product - eXplorance is a great company.

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    Blue has a lot of features and integrates well with our other systems.
    Cons:
    Blue is somewhat complicated to administer.

    Reasons for choosing Blue

    Functionality was comparable, but look and feel and user experience was better.

    Reasons for switching to Blue

    We were retiring our previous LMS and needed a new enterprise course evaluation system.

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    GH

    Greg H.

    Verified reviewer

    Higher Education

    1001-5000 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed October 2021

    Higher Ed review of Blue - +10 years and still going!

    5

    Overall I've had a positive experience working with Blue. Their support team is fairly knowledgeable and hands-on. Their development team is also fairly responsive to 'feature requests' which is great. My team uses the product almost daily where it satisfies most (if not all) of our survey requirements. I've enjoyed seeing Blue evolve over the past 10+ years and look forward to working with it in the future.

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    4
    Value for money
    4
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    I've been a blue user for 10+ years and work with the product almost daily. We use it primarily for student surveys such as Student Satisfaction, Course Evaluations, and Graduate Outcomes. We also use Blue to collect information from other stakeholders (i.e. Industry, Employees, Employers, Alumni, etc). Creating surveys is easy and intuitive for my small research team. We typically do not have any down-time with this product besides the occasional maintenance shutdown to our onsite hosted environment.
    Cons:
    Blue is a great product for surveying stakeholders at our institution however the way they deploy features to only certain blue products makes using the software challenging. A feature available in a course evaluation survey for example may not be available in another survey 'product'. I find this challenging as I've often had to recreate complete projects in order to take advantage of certain project/reporting features. The products should be seamless and integrated across all surveys in blue... For example, DRA - Dynamic Report Access is a great feature for dynamically assigning reports to a role (vs. an individual user), however is not available for use with a standard survey.

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    VR

    Verified
    Reviewer

    Higher Education

    10000+ employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed March 2019

    Robust Product with Excellent Support

    5

    We use Blue to manage the course evaluation process across the entire university. I am one of about a dozen users who each manage an individual school within the university. Mine is the largest (comprising about 60% of courses offered and closer to 75% of courses evaluated). Our university has been using Blue for about three years now. We chose this software after negative experiences with our last vendor, and we were specifically looking for something that could provide all of the below: 1) Automated data feed from our student information system (SIS) to Blue. 2) Customization for each school using the software. 3) Unified email messaging (one email per student per school regardless of number of courses involved). 4) Ability to handle large and complex questionnaires with built in triggering to ask the right questions for each individual course and instructor. 5) Ability to customize opening and closing dates for evaluations down to the course level. 6) Ability to manage both mid-term and end-of-course evaluations. 7) Ability to evaluate multiple instructors for a single course with a seamless experience for students (course and all instructors on a single questionnaire) and automatic distribution of data to separate reports per instructor (all receive course responses but each sees only their instructor responses). I am the most advanced user on our campus, both based on training and based on the extensiveness with which I use the software. For most users here, the cour

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    The robust amount of features. Ability to copy setup from one term to the next. Ability to extensively customize evaluation process. Ability to correct an error, add a course, or otherwise update data after evaluations have started. Commitment of Explorance to improving the software based on customer feedback. Variety of training options and levels, including customer and Explorance staff led monthly webinars.
    Cons:
    High learning curve for new users. Some of the limitations in reporting (less direct control of size/layout of displayed graphics, inability to do certain calculations in export to excel reports).

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    RA

    Ramzan A.

    Verified reviewer

    Higher Education

    1001-5000 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed June 2019

    Blue Course Evaluation

    5

    Our organization is with Explorance since 2009-2010. It has been a long journey and demonstrates the product effectiveness to us. We have been extensively using BLUE for feedback surveys, commonly, for us as well, the most important survey is the course evaluation survey. We have been conveniently deploying the course evaluation survey to the students and then successfully publishing the reports to the relevant faculty accessible online. Our overall experience is extremely satisfactory with this product in terms of what it generally offers, and in particular with its excellent customer support center and people, who are 24/7 ready and available to answer and resolve customers' queries.

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    It's ease of use. Additionally, it is very handy to publish the course evaluations to the students, which I reckon is the most desirable feature to the Higher Education Institutions. BLUE gives one a robust control over the project even after it is published, it smartly and intelligently allows the users to handle the project subjects (courses) and members (instructors). Apart from the course evaluations one can conveniently execute and publish hundreds of feedback surveys to the intended audience privately or publicly. Report creating features using the survey response data are excellent and are sufficient enough to suffice the institutional reporting features. The most valuable thing is there customer support - no doubt it's one of the best I have ever experienced, staff responsiveness and effectively resolving the queries is unmatchable.
    Cons:
    There is nothing such as the least one. Instead, I believe that there is always a room for improvement, in this era of Business Intelligence. Explorance understands, knows and has always been continuously endeavouring to optimally improve its product to address the market and customer needs.

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    KM

    Katherine M.

    Verified reviewer

    Education Management

    501-1000 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed October 2021

    Blue Explorance Product

    4

    Ratings Breakdown

    3
    Ease of use
    3
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    3
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    The integration process between our college and the software was easily streamlined systematically. The course evaluations really do make a huge difference on how courses get improved upon and further better the educational experience for our learners.
    Cons:
    The product is not intuitive. It definitely takes time to understand and grasp the computer language and format that is being used.

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    DS

    Darren S.

    Verified reviewer

    Higher Education

    501-1000 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed October 2021

    BLUE is a great tool for our university.

    5

    We are using BLUE for our course and advisor evaluations and could potentially use it for some other surveys down the road. The implementation team did a great job of putting this software into production and it has been very well received by our university community.

    Ratings Breakdown

    4
    Ease of use
    4
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
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    Pros:
    The software works well and is very customizable. The interface is well received and out of the several products we reviewed, this one was the faculty favorite. One thing that stands out is their technical support and how prompt and knowledgeable their techs are. I appreciate that they are available by phone and video as well as email. I also like the integration with Blackboard and Active Directory.
    Cons:
    The software is complex and you can't just sit down and start using it without some training. It's also one of the more expensive products we looked at. I'm not a fan of managed systems where everything is offsite but there weren't any options we reviewed that allowed for an onsite server and software installation.

    Reasons for choosing Blue

    We chose BLUE because of the features available, the reports shown, the interface and it was the one our faculty liked the best.

    Reasons for switching to Blue

    We had a lot of complaints about TK20 and faculty didn't like it for a variety of reasons. It was also acquired by a different company and was going to be discontinued.

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    candace g.

    E-Learning

    1001-5000 employees

    Used daily for more than 2 years

    Review source

    Reviewed April 2018

    Blue is a great product and eXplorance is a great vendor.

    5

    Ratings Breakdown

    5
    Ease of use
    5
    Value for money
    5
    Customer support
    5
    Functionality
    icon
    Pros:
    Blue is very flexible and powerful, and can be configured to meet the different requirements of many different schools.
    Cons:
    Consequences of some configuration decisions can be far-reaching, and should be documented more clearly.

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