Blue - Viewing Response Rates (Instructor and Admin) [UW-Madison]

How Do I Access Blue?

Navigating to Blue Directly

1. In your web browser, navigate to https://studenteval.wisc.edu.

2. Log in with your NetID and password.

Connecting from a Canvas Course

1. Go to your Canvas course.

2. On the course navigation sidebar, select Course Evaluations. Blue lists all course sections that have open evaluations for students. It will also say when they are due.

   Note: If you're an instructor wishing to hide Course Evaluations from the Canvas navigation bar, please follow these instructions from the Canvas Instructor Guide (Canvas Community).
   

3. Click any course from the list to open the course evaluation. 

Viewing Response Rates or Current Surveys from Canvas (instructors)

1. Open a Canvas Course where you are enrolled as an instructor.
2. Select Course Evaluations from the sidebar. This will open Blue.
3. When you access Blue, you will see a screen titled Subject management. This shows each running survey and its courses. Each of your courses will be shown on tile with the following information:
   1. Survey status
   2. Survey name
   3. Course name
   4. Number of responses 
   5. Response rate (percentage)
   6. Evaluation end date
   7. Date 
      

Viewing Response Rates or Current Surveys from Blue (instructors and Blue admins)

1. If you access Blue directly at https://studenteval.wisc.edu, you will open your home dashboard. 
   
2. To see response rates or currently running surveys, select the Subject management widget on the sidebar of your dashboard.
   Note: This widget is displayed on screen only while an evaluation is open.
   
3. The Subject management screen shows each running survey and its courses. Each course will be shown on tile with the following information:
   1. Survey status
   2. Survey name
   3. Course name
   4. Number of responses 
   5. Response rate (percentage)
   6. Evaluation end date
   7. Date 
      
      

If you are an instructor and would like to view more detailed information about your response rates, launch Blue and select the Response rate monitor widget. (Blue administrators can access the Response Rate Monitor using the left side Blue Menu.)

The Response Rate Monitor allows you to monitor ongoing evaluation projects, analyze response levels and act appropriately to achieve response rate targets. It shows several modules to help you do this: Overall Response Status, Subject Progress and Performance, and Subjects.

Note: Newly submitted responses take approximately ten minutes to propagate to the Response Rate Monitor.

Overall Response Status

The Overall Response Status Chart displays a comprehensive breakdown of the response statuses for all available evaluations:

• Expired - Lost opportunities. These evaluations were not completed and are no longer available.

• Not Ready - These evaluations have not yet been sent to the raters, i.e. raters haven't had the opportunity to respond.

• Not Completed - Sent to raters but raters haven't begun responding.

• In Progress - Raters have begun to respond, but haven't yet completed the entire evaluation.

• Completed - These evaluations are complete and are ready for further examination and reporting.

Students are reminded by email every three days to complete an evaluation. To help increase response rates, instructors are encouraged to remind their students and/or even take a few minutes of class time for them to complete evaluations.

To see how students can access Blue and submit their evaluation, see Blue - Completing your Course Evaluations (Student) [UW-Madison].