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As Abroad101 begins its 10<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span> Year, we\u2019d like to say Happy New Year and thanks.\u00a0 Thanks to the many advisors who use reviews to assist students in finding programs and setting expectations.\u00a0 Thanks to the many administrators who require their students to submit reviews as their official program evaluation; and thanks to program providers and foreign host institutions who buy the ads that keep the service\u00a0free.\u00a0 Here\u2019s to the next 10 years!<\/span><\/p>\n It is 2017: When did you Last Update your Evaluation Process?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Programs will often have a process where they engage the students in a final day evaluation exercise.\u00a0 Taking it one step further, and pushing the student to publish their evaluation as part of the re-entry process is something\u00a0that helps everyone.\u00a0 Using the review as the student\u2019s official personal statement can turn the bland evaluation into a dynamic point of pride.\u00a0 It\u2019s a productive re-entry exercise when the student can put their feelings into words and describe their discoveries, growth, maturity and overall gains made while\u00a0abroad.\u00a0 Abroad101\u2019s 38-question review is an effective means to do this.\u00a0 Asking the students to bring their laptop, tablet or smart-phone to class is one way to assure high or full participation in the process.\u00a0 We have others.<\/span><\/p>\n Paper Evaluations into Online Reviews<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n We recognize that even with today\u2019s tech savvy youth and Wi-Fi enabled campuses, capturing evaluations\/reviews online has its challenges.<\/span><\/p>\n If you have paper evaluations, we suggest you allow us to turn them into Abroad101 reviews.\u00a0 For a modest account management fee and a very reasonable per evaluation fee, we will scan your reviews and allow you to take a big step to modernize your evaluation process.<\/span><\/p>\n Using Abroad101\u2019s Dashboard Tools for Benchmarking:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Having summary date is good, using it to measure progress is even better.\u00a0 Millsaps College<\/span> has long used Abroad101 as the evaluation tool for its faculty-led programs and recently their SIO provided a copy of the report he used in their regional (SACS) accreditation.\u00a0 In it, he described how he used Abroad101 and our \u201cGraphs\u201d report.\u00a0 Here are a couple of excerpts:<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cPrior to using Abroad101, the OIE used its own personal evaluation system. This was, for one, a very time-consuming and labor-intensive process for the already strapped staff. But more importantly: in order to more accurately compare statistics with overall study abroad experiences, to compare provider programs with Millsaps faculty\u00adleds, and to more easily collect and interpret data, the OIE has decided to use Abroad101 as its evaluation source.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n \u201cPerhaps most importantly, partnering with Abroad101 allows us to send comprehensive assessment\/evaluations to our returned study abroad student, while minimizing the work for our extremely small office by streamlining the evaluation process for us. They also provide easy-to-use tools to assess the data from the completed evaluations.\u201d<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Each advisor account on Abroad101 has a graphs report.\u00a0 You\u2019ll find it on the left side of your account dashboard, toward the bottom of the tool list.\u00a0 Click to generate a graph of one of the following ratings categories: Overall, Academics, Program Administration, Housing, Food, Social integration, Health Care, Safety. Cost of Living.\u00a0 You\u2019ll also see how your students rate against the 30,000 reviews across Abroad101.<\/span><\/p>\n Connecting Reviews to your Enrollment or CRM System<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n We have been working to get Abroad101\u2019s process of program evaluation and our set of questions as a standard part of everyone\u2019s study abroad.\u00a0 The students give us a lot of data that a number of institutions are using in their analysis and management of education abroad.\u00a0\u00a0 Abroad101 is set up to pass that data to you in several ways:<\/span><\/p>\n The Power of the Review Serial Number<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The Export and API functions are even more powerful when this data can get tied to the student\u2019s account in your enrollment system.\u00a0 Key to this linking is the Abroad101 review serial number.\u00a0 Each Abroad101 review gets a unique\u00a0serial number and if you enter that serial number after \u201c\/reviews\/\u201d it will redirect to the full program link.\u00a0 As an example, serial # 29619 can be viewed here http:\/\/www.studyabroad101.com\/reviews\/29619<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n
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