Crazy Egg for Education and Universities
Welcome to Crazy Egg for Education!
Here, you will find multiple guides for making the most out of your subscription, from getting Snapshots (including heatmaps) and Recordings set up on your website to managing multiple domains and team members. You'll also learn how to deploy A/B tests with just the click of a button, no code necessary.
Remember, each subscription comes with unlimited domains, so you can add your tracking code to as many of your education sites as you need. For example, in case your university has campuses spread around the world and each campus has its own separate domain, you could track all of these in one account.
Table of Contents
- Overview: Learn about the different products, tools, and services available to help you understand your prospective and current students.
- Setup and Installation: Learn about how to get Crazy Egg installed, set up, and capturing insights.
- Organizing and Managing your account: Learn about the different tools Crazy Egg has to help you stay organized, manage your accounts, and determine who sees what information.
- Sharing Insights: Learn how to share the various insights captured by Crazy Egg, either directly in the application or via Exports and Sharing Links.
- Crazy Egg Tutorials, Training, and Resources: Learn how you can put the power of Crazy Egg’s team and experience to work in helping you win over prospective students and parents, and expand your relationship with the students you already serve.
- Education Case Study: Find out how other education websites like the University of British Columbia have used Crazy Egg to learn how people interact with their contact form.
Overview: Getting Familiar with Crazy Egg
Meet Your Dashboard
Snapshots Overview
Explore this quick-start guide to get a walkthrough of Crazy Egg’s five visitor data analysis reports (we call them “Snapshots”): Heatmap, Scrollmap, Confetti, Overlay, and List.
Snapshot Setup Tutorial
This three-minute video will help you unlock the power of Snapshots. You'll be able to customize each Snapshot to suit the page and your goals.
Snapshots Dashboard Tutorial
Check out how to manage your Snapshots from the Snapshot Dashboard including how to refresh, duplicate, and export the 5 Snapshot Reports.
Snapshot Reports Tutorial
Learn how to use each of your 5 reports to identify areas of opportunity where you can increase customer interactions, engagement, and conversions.
Visitor Recordings Video Tutorials
Recordings Settings
Learn how to customize your Recordings including changing the sampling rate at which we capture visitors as well as privacy masking.
Recordings Dashboard
Organize your Recordings using 14 different filters to get to the session replays that matter the most to your analysis.
Recordings Player and Controls
Learn how to skip pauses, change the playback speed, and see exactly what events and actions took place during the course of the recording.
A/B Test Video Tutorials
A/B Test Editor
See how to make changes to your education site with just the click of a button from changing text, adding links, and swapping out images. Use all of the insights that you got from the Snapshot Reports and the Recordings to see what you can improve on your homepage, contact page, and admissions pages.
A/B Test Results
Understand how to analyze your A/B test results. We use a multi-armed bandit approach to A/B testing that will make sure that you never lose out on any clicks, conversions, or sales while the test is running.
Setup and Installation: Getting Started with Crazy Egg
Integrations and Quick Install Options
We have a lot of integrations that can help you connect your education site to Crazy Egg in minutes. Learn how our connections with partners like WordPress, Wix, and SquareSpace can get you analyzing site traffic ASAP: Explore integrations.
How to Manually Install Crazy Egg
If you need to install our tracking script for a client manually, you can get up and running by following three easy steps. Learn more about manual installation here.
Email A Developer Option
We can also send instructions to a developer for you.
Organizing and Managing: Putting Crazy Egg to Work for You
Adding Multiple Domains to Crazy Egg
You can track multiple domains under one Crazy Egg account. All you need to do is follow this guide here!
Whether you’re managing just one university site or multiple offshoots, Crazy Egg has you covered. Learn how easy it is to add sites to your account for analysis and report sharing.
Adding and Managing Team Members
You have the option to invite teammates to view reports and recordings from just one site or several if you have multiple university domains. Here's a walkthrough for how to invite new team members to your account.
Setting and Resetting Team Member Permissions
You also have the option to assign roles to team members, from Owner or Manager to Read-Only (if you want someone to just be able to review reports or recordings rather than run them). Check out this in-depth guide.
Organizing Your Dashboard With Folders
Add some structure or categorization to your Snapshots by grouping them together. Learn how to move Snapshots into Folders so you can access them easily.
Sharing Your Insights
Exporting Reports
Learn how to back up or save old reports to make room for new ones or run a comparison with this handy guide. Click here to check out the guide.
Sharing Snapshots and Recordings
Want to send a teammate an example of a user behavior pattern you’ve identified? We make it easy to share our reports via URL.
Crazy Egg Tutorials, Training, and Resources
Help Center
Our searchable support portal is your go-to resource for making the most of your Crazy Egg subscription! Access to guides, how-to’s, and video tutorials await.
Office Hours and Training Sessions
If you need help getting started with Crazy Egg, want answers to your burning questions, or want to take a deep dive into a particular website optimization topic, we’ve got your covered with our free, live tutorials!
Any questions or concerns? You can always email help@crazyegg.com.
Video Resources Library
If you're a DIY learner, browse our video library where we have everything from past webinars to website teardowns to in-depth video walkthroughs. We've got plenty of resources for you to explore so dive right in!
Education Case Study
Want to see how another university uses Crazy Egg in action? Take a look at this website teardown with The University of British Columbia.