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Streamline and strengthen your assessment practices

Our Educational Impact Suite (EIS) helps you build a simpler, measurable, and more engaging assessment practices to fuel transformative change.

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Unify your assessment processes in one hub

Assessment requires faculty, staff, and leaders to compile and respond to evidence, both direct and indirect, of student learning. You need a comprehensive view of performance in order to pinpoint what’s working and pursue the right areas for improvement. Yet isolated and inefficient processes, siloed data, and duplicative work can make the assessment process stressful and time-consuming. Data is often scattered across campus in outdated systems and document repositories, inhibiting the collaboration and innovation needed to keep programs competitive and impactful for your students.

When you need it most, your critical information could be stuck in a vault. Revolutionize your approach to assessment and continuous improvement with Watermark. Streamline, strengthen, and systematize your assessments to better measure quality across courses, programs, and the institution at large. Get a secure, up-to-date, accessible, and insightful hub for all of your important data. Build trust with stakeholders by boosting engagement and demonstrating your commitment to excellence, while ensuring compliance. Manage your full assessment cycle from one place with Watermark.

Lead transformative assessment practices

Watermark assessment solutions provide a toolset to measure and communicate institutional effectiveness. Pinpoint opportunities for improvement and drive growth.

  • Design, administer, and analyze assessments in one system.
  • Define your mission, goals, and outcomes.
  • Get the full picture with direct and indirect assessment.
  • Understand how you’re meeting learning outcomes.
  • Mobilize the right people around actions for improvement.
  • Monitor progress throughout your assessment cycle.
  • Meet accreditation requirements with the right evidence.
  • Improve and maintain education quality.

With our tools, you can

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Unlock your data’s potential

Leverage integrations with campus systems and across Watermark products to reduce redundant tasks, achieve stronger faculty engagement, and foster important discussions.
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Track learning outcomes

Define and align learning outcomes to provide a common language for faculty and external stakeholders. Get data quicker with a better way to collect, measure, and report on achievement.
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Centralize and automate

Get a holistic view of outcomes by aggregating data from various assessment sources. Measure outcomes, analyze the results, and prioritize improvements in a unified platform.
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Uplevel consistency and clarity

Embed rubrics in assignments and field experiences to capture authentic evidence of learning everywhere it happens. Or assess samples of work for speedy results at scale.
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Integrate indirect measures

Create surveys to gather valuable feedback on courses and instructors for holistic evaluation. Increase response rates through deep LMS integration and automated student notifications.
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Demonstrate your impact

Align outcomes and standards with rubric criteria so you can demonstrate achievement and compliance with ease. Tell compelling stories about student progress through reporting.
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Make data-driven decisions

Use comprehensive analytics and data visualization to enhance program effectiveness. Automate the aggregation, analysis, and reporting from various assessment types.
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Fuel continuous improvement

Tap results and manage assessment cycles, accreditation self-studies, program reviews, and other continuous improvement initiatives from the same familiar, connected place.

What do our clients have to say?

“Now I can see which core competencies have unmet outcomes. Being able to have those conversations…is the most major university-wide impact from using the system.”
Bliss Adkison, Associate Director for Academic Affairs and SACSCOC Liaison at University of North Alabama
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Watermark Planning & Self-Study Has Made My Work Life Easier
“I have been using Watermark Planning & Self-Study primarily for program review, and it has become an indispensable tool in Rock Valley College’s assessment and continuous improvement efforts. The platform –
“I have been using Watermark Planning & Self-Study primarily for program review, and it has become an indispensable tool in Rock Valley College’s assessment and continuous improvement efforts. The platform simplifies the entire program review process for me from data collection to feedback to sending off the reports. The interface is intuitive and I am able to easily navigate to where I need to go and I am able to easily customize the templates for our state reporting requirements. The Help section is particularly valuable, with many well-written articles that provide clear guidance on how to make the most of the platform’s features. If I cannot find what I need in the Help section, the customer support has been exceptional, and quick with responses.” –
Sonnie Glusman, Executive Assistant to the Vice President of Institutional Effectiveness and Communications
“Before, students turned in their field log on paper at the end of the semester. Now, whenever she needs to, our field director can monitor progress in real time.”
Shannan Palomba, Assessment Coordinator at Gonzaga University
“We’re able to target surveys by programs, disciplines, and then at a course level. Before, it was [all on] paper and pencil, and took way too long to get anything –
“We’re able to target surveys by programs, disciplines, and then at a course level. Before, it was [all on] paper and pencil, and took way too long to get anything useful.” –
Kimberly Brantley, Senior Research Analyst at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
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“Faculty have commented that [Watermark] is much easier to use based on previous assessment software; much more user-friendly and professional. The customer support is good – they are open to –
“Faculty have commented that [Watermark] is much easier to use based on previous assessment software; much more user-friendly and professional. The customer support is good – they are open to feedback from users and will implement our suggestions over time.” –
Karina Knutson, Assessment & Accreditation Specialist
“Watermark helps get all of the busy work taken care of faster so faculty can spend more of their time focusing on, ‘What do our students need?’ … ‘How can –
“Watermark helps get all of the busy work taken care of faster so faculty can spend more of their time focusing on, ‘What do our students need?’ … ‘How can we better support them?’” –
Marline Faherty, Director of Academic Affairs, Support Services at Drury University
“We are building a culture of continuous improvement. We don’t do this because SACSCOC tells us to; we do this because we are excellence-driven. [Now] it easy to demonstrate outcomes.”
“We are building a culture of continuous improvement. We don’t do this because SACSCOC tells us to; we do this because we are excellence-driven. [Now] it easy to demonstrate outcomes.” –
Michele Atkins, Assistant Provost for Accreditation and Research at Union University

Watermark is a winner in multiple categories on G2

Assessment Software G2 Grid®

Watermark is a G2 Grid leader! Based on customer reviews and other aggregated data, Watermark was determined to be a top Assessment Software product. Check out our profile to see what customers are saying about Watermark Planning & Self-Study.

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Getting accreditation-ready

Accreditation review is an important checkpoint for your institution. Our team is focused on providing software that helps you build a strong network of data and processes so that you’re always ready to demonstrate your progress. With these tools, you won’t have to get prepared. You’ll be prepared.

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Utilizing rubric data for your assessment plans

See how you can save time, streamline information sharing, and improve collaboration by centralizing your tools with Planning & Self-Study and Student Learning & Licensure.

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Real-Time Assessment and Accreditation Reports in Minutes vs. Weeks at University of North Alabama

Learn how the University of North Alabama transformed their assessment process — taking the report creation process from weeks to just minutes.
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