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Onboarding:
Welcome to miXabroad

 

Welcome to miXabroad! We are thrilled to have you join the benchmark and look forward to working with you to deep dive into your institution’s education abroad experiences on a global scale.

We specialise in helping institutions like yours gain valuable insights into education abroad programs, enabling you to make data-driven decisions and enhance your global engagement strategies.

This page will guide you through the onboarding process and outline what we need from you to ensure a seamless setup. Please circulate this webpage internally to ensure all relevant stakeholders are informed and aligned.

About miXabroad

miXabroad is a large-scale, research-led benchmark that measures the experiences and impact of education abroad. We take the hassle out of surveying your students so you can focus on what matters most: designing transformative global experiences.

The miXabroad survey includes over 200 variables covering program type, student demographics and destination insights. We assess all aspects of the student experience – from academic performance, safety, support services, social integration and more – so you can determine how motivations, perceptions and impact differ by student type.

We provide insights across a range of program types, including:

  • Semester abroad
  • Short-term, faculty-led programs
  • External or third-party provider programs
  • Global internships (in-person, virtual)… and more.

Onboarding,
step-by-step

The onboarding process begins with an initial meeting where we’ll walk you through the data agreement, onboarding form, preloaded questions and any survey customizations. This is designed to help you tailor the survey to meet your institution’s specific needs.

1. Sign your data agreement

By now, you should have received your data agreement. This agreement outlines the services miXabroad provides and governs how the survey and data is shared between your institution and miXabroad including ownership rights, data privacy and protection, and confidentiality.

When sharing the data agreement internally, we also recommend that you share a link to the privacy notice for survey respondents which outlines how we collect, use and protect their data. If you require an offline version of this, please contact us. 

The data agreement needs to be signed by both miXabroad and your institution prior to us sharing the onboarding form which includes the survey instrument.

2. Complete your onboarding form

The onboarding form has been designed to ensure you can easily provide us with your customizations to the survey. We'll take you through what you need to know to assist with completing the onboarding form.

See also 'Customizing your survey' and 'Indicating preloaded and mandatory questions' below.

3. Customize your survey

  • Your institution can propose up to 4 additional questions, depending on your miXabroad package. Use the first TAB ‘Onboarding Form' of the onboarding document to propose any additional questions that are specific to your context.
  • You can also refine existing questions to align with your institutional requirements, especially for topics such as sexuality, gender or ethnicity.
  • You may also wish to refine response options. For example:

    Question 1.1 What type of experience did you undertake?
    You may wish to have your own program names reflected here. Or, if your institution offers its own grants or has unique programs, you can add questions to capture this information.  
Please note that the survey varies slightly by country and region. Where this is the case, regional versions of these questions are added under separate tabs (see 8.4 Sexuality and 8.5 Ethnicity for example).

4. Provide any preload data and mandatory questions

  • On the Onboarding Form under the TAB, 'Survey' you’ll find suggestions for questions that could be preloaded (Column C: Recommended Preload) and questions that miXabroad requires students to complete (Column E: miXabroad Answer Required). 
  • You will need to complete Column B: University Preload and indicate with a ‘Y’ (for yes) which questions you can provide as preloaded data. Once we have this information, we will send you a template for the preload. Please see below for more detail on preloading and why this is recommended as part of the survey onboarding process.
  • You will also need to complete Column D: University Required Question by indicating with a ‘Y’ which questions you require to be mandatory for your own reporting purposes.

Download the miXabroad preload template.

5. The value of preloaded data

We highly recommend preloading data to enhance the quality of your survey results and to save respondents’ time. Preloading allows you to provide information such as student demographics, program details or grant eligibility upfront, reducing the burden on respondents and ensuring more accurate and complete data capture.  

Once we know what data you can preload, we will send you a template to facilitate this process. Preloading not only streamlines the survey experience for students, but ensures that your institution receives the most relevant and actionable insights from the data.  

Onboarding checklist

1. Attend an initial onboarding meeting to discuss your institution’s needs and review the onboarding document. 

2.⁠ Complete the Excel document, including proposing additional questions, refining existing ones, and indicating preloaded and mandatory questions.

3.⁠ Return the completed document to your miXabroad contact. 

4.⁠ Download and complete the Preload data template (see #4 above).

5. Review your online survey - we will send you a test link.

6. Go live!
Also, check out these handy resources:

  • Read: 7 smart ways to boost your student survey response rate
  • Download: Suggested templates to email your students
We're here to help

If you have any questions or need assistance during the onboarding process, please don’t hesitate to reach out to your miXabroad contact. We’re here to ensure your experience with miXabroad is smooth, efficient and tailored to your institution’s unique needs.

Thank you for choosing miXabroad. We look forward to partnering with you to unlock the full potential of your education abroad programs!

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