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Real-time insights for your programs and institution — all in one place

Every college and university is driven by the core mission of making an educational impact on their students, institution, and community. But when you don’t have a clear understanding of what is working, what isn’t, and how to respond, you may find yourself stuck spinning your wheels. When critical institutional data is siloed within disparate or outdated systems, it is challenging for leaders, administrators, and staff to access meaningful insights they need to make the best decisions. But how do you break down these barriers, to provide faculty, administrators, and students with the best chance at success?

“Where analytics and data are concerned, investment is the area in which higher education institutions are making the least progress.”

Jacquiline Bichsel, Analytics in Higher Education EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research

Organizational progress on mission and outcomes definition

Understand the progress organizations and programs are making with defining their mission, outcomes, outcome alignment, and curriculum maps.

• Automatically gain access to insights from across your organization in real time, in a single location.
• Drill in to see statuses by organization or program. Drive engagement with gentle participation emails, or reach out to thank key contributors.

Map programs to institutional learning outcomes (ILOs)

See how well program outcomes are aligned with institutional learning objectives.

• Know which ILOs are most and least supported by program outcomes.
• With these insights, understand how committed programs are helping students achieve ILOs.
• Use these insights to identify program challenges and openly discuss how to build alignment on learning outcomes.

View real-time assessment progress through Watermark Planning & Self-Study

• Monitor ILO alignment.
• Track progress on assessment data collection.
• Gain visibility into program participation in active assessment plans to help you prepare for academic council meetings and strategize on ways to drive engagement.

Get insights into your Student Learning & Licensure data

• Understand the progression of gathering authentic evidence of student learning; catch problem areas where evidence is lacking.
• Know the overall participation in learning assessments from organizations, programs, faculty, and students.
• See the assessment progress of each learning activity for a given term.
• Identify opportunities to engage and reinforce assessment practices across campus.

Track use of indirect assessment and feedback through Course Evaluations & Surveys

• Understand high-level progress of student course engagement and satisfaction with real-time response rates for in-progress and completed course evaluations.
• Benchmark current response rate compared to previous course evaluations.
• Determine if additional tactics are needed to boost response rates to strengthen representation of student voices.

Faculty scholarship summary

Review the accomplishments of your faculty by scholarship category.

• Understand the progress of faculty documenting their accomplishments.
• Cite these insights for internal and external presentations, while also supporting faculty leaders in documenting their accomplishments.

This is only the beginning!

As with the other areas of the Insights Hub, we’re continually working to expand the information we provide. You can expect to see insights into other facets of faculty responsibilities and contributions soon.

Access essential labor market and demographic data

• Reference regional demographics and changes in population, jobs, and unemployment.
• Keep a pulse on regional labor force trends and breakdowns.
• See the top 3 highest and lowest growing industries and occupations in your region.

Dramatically improve program-review efficiency

• Automate the curation and distribution of labor market demand data.
• Access a table of data for program review.
• Filter out the noise with data scoped to your program discipline.
• Quickly and easily build data directly into program review narratives.

Make more informed decisions

• Give institutional leaders immediate insight into high level trends for strategic planning and decision-making in the Watermark Insights Hub.
• Equip faculty with insights to tap during program review with direct integration into their workspace in Planning & Self-Study

Gain insights into your student success initiatives

• Understand the predictive risk rates of students enrolled in the current or upcoming term.
• Expand your understanding of how the staff and faculty are prioritizing their outreach efforts with students across risk categories.
• Kick off collaboration and impactful initiatives between institutional effectiveness and student success.

Insights into your top programs

• Understand the top programs by monitoring the top page views within the last 30 days.
• Anticipate the most in-demand programs.
• Identify and align marketing campaigns and curricular revisions based on program view rankings.

Insights into program proposals

• Quantify the number of program and course proposals submitted in an academic year.
• Understand progress on program approvals, track the percentage that are in-review versus approved.
• See which proposals have been submitted for new courses or programs, and which proposals are revisions.