
Watermark’s Planning & Self-Study software helps institutions manage assessment and accreditation processes. It centralizes outcomes and assessment planning, streamlines workflows, and enhances data-driven decision-making to support continuous improvement and strategic planning.
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Assessment and accreditation management software
Foster productive, action-oriented discussions about continuous improvement. Align to your strategic plan, and unify outcomes and results.
Bolster data-driven decisions
Centralize outcomes and assessment planning
- Maximize time with streamlined, repeatable processes.
- Dramatically boost engagement in assessment.
- Empower more impactful program improvement.
- Drive a collaborative, highly versatile self-study process.
- Demonstrate progress toward your strategic plan.
What to expect
Drive continuous improvement
Shift focus from reporting to reflecting
Streamline the gathering, comprehending, reflecting, and acting on assessment and other programmatic data in one system. Cut redundant work and focus on opportunities for improvement.
Enable data transparency
Interactive dashboards provide transparency into assessment planning and outcomes achievement, and shared templates align your entire campus around strategic goals.
One campus-wide assessment hub
Measure academic and non-academic outcomes in one place. Break down silos and align to drive progress based on an understanding of your whole institution’s effectiveness.
Simplify curriculum mapping
Link assessment plans to curricula through automated, intelligent curriculum mapping features. Easily identify gaps where outcomes can be layered in to improve your curriculum.
Gather results from anywhere
No matter how you collect data to measure outcome achievement, pull results in easily. Make it effortless with integrations to the major LMS platforms and other Watermark tools.
Advanced LMS Integration for Canvas
Pull assessment results from Canvas into Planning & Self-Study to increase efficiency, aggregate and disaggregate to answer essential questions about student learning, visualize key insights, and pass assessment results data into your assessment plan reports to demonstrate SLO achievement.
Streamline accreditation reporting
Select from a library of pre-built self-study templates or create your own. Use the shared evidence library to pull in assessment plans as evidence alongside other types of artifacts.
Efficient program review cycles
Easily manage the timing, scope and participation in review cycles. Build multi-stage workflows to capture reviewer feedback on reports. Monitor progress to stay on track.
Simplified, collaborative program reviews
Use a comprehensive, customizable pre-built template to give contributors clear guidelines and a collaborative space to write program review reports. Reference your curriculum maps, outcomes attainment over time, and more automatically, to easily craft comprehensive program reviews.
Integrated labor market data
Reference current labor market insights from Lightcast to put program results into context, inform curricular changes in program reviews, and give leaders insights into trends for strategic planning.
Centralized insights for leaders
Drive deeper campus participation in assessment. Monitor programs’ progress in defining their missions, outcomes, curriculum maps, and alignment to institutional goals.
Get more from Watermark’s EIS
Planning & Self-Study is only part of the Watermark Educational Impact Suite. Connected by our Insights Hub, put your data and organizational engagement in context and gain key insights to drive progress.
Support from day one
Our client experience team is ready to champion you to success. Our proven methodologies get you up and running quickly and focus on the foundational skills you need to meet your goals. We work together to create a seamless experience from start to finish.