Blue - Viewing Response Rates [UW-Madison]

In this document you’ll learn how to view response rates for Blue course evaluations while the survey is running to help promote when responses are low.

   

How Do I Access Blue? 

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).
    Sidebar as seen in a Canvas course. The "Course Evaluations" link is highlighted.

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

Response Rates

Accessing Response Rates from Canvas (for instructors)

When you access Blue as an instructor using the link in Canvas, you will see a screen titled Subject management. Each of your courses will have a tile with their course name and response rate represented.

  1. Subject Management page as shown on Blue. Each course is represented with a tile including the number of responses, and the percentage of the class participating

Opening Blue to View Response Rates (for instructors and college/department admins)

  1. If you access Blue directly at https://studenteval.wisc.edu, you will see this home screen.
    Blue homepage, with Subject Management tile highlighted

  2. To see response rates, select the Subject management widget from your home screen. The Subject management screen lists response rates for each course.
    Note: This widget is displayed on screen only while an evaluation is open.
    Tile titled "subject management" Dive into the Subject-based approach to your evaluations and tasks. The tile includes a link titled "manage your subjects".
    Subject Management page as shown on Blue. Each course is represented with a tile including the number of responses, and the percentage of the class participating

Response Rate Monitor

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.)


Blue homepage, with Response Rate Monitor tile highlighted

Tile titled "response rate monitor" with a link titled "view response rates".

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
Pie chart of overall response rates. Each status (outlined in the next section) is assigned its own color.

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.

How can I increase response rates?

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].

 


Keywords:
course evaluation response rates survey class section evaluations
Doc ID:
155320
Owned by:
Learn@UW Madison in Learn@UW
Created:
2025-10-03
Updated:
2026-04-09
Sites:
DoIT Help Desk, Learn@UW