Understanding Student Learning & Licensure Data in Leader Insights
What is Leader Insights?
Leader Insights is a centralized dashboard designed to help campus leaders track progress, measure success, and identify areas for improvement across Watermark products.
At the institutional level, administrators and leaders can explore more than 50 essential questions spanning six Watermark solutions. Additionally, institutions that license Planning & Self-Study with the Market Landscape Data Pack add-on from Lightcast gain access to market landscape insights.
At present, program-level insights are available from Student Learning & Licensure, provided it is integrated with System Administration (rather than Classic Admin).
Users can access Institution Leader Insights and Program Leader Insights through the Insights Hub or Planning & Self-Study.
- For more information on all of Leader Insights, please see the article linked Understanding the Institution Leader Insights Dashboard.
- For instructions on how to access Leader Insights as either an Administrator or a top-level Lead, please see the article linked Accessing Leader Insights.
Once in the Insights area, you will see tabs across the top containing different categories of data. The areas you see will depend on which tools you have that are integrated in the Watermark Suite. You might see Institution, Continuous Improvement, Faculty, Students, and Labor Market.
Student Learning & Licensure insights live under the Continuous Improvement area.
Institution Insights Area
Learning Assessments in the Current Academic Year
Determine institutional assessment progress for the outcomes they have aligned in a given academic year. Users also have the ability to drill down for more information by clicking on any area of the generated graphs to get more information regarding the individual activities where the assessments take place.
The Participation Overview area of this widget contains the following information:
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Organization & Programs assessing student learning in Academic Year
- This section will display the count of hierarchy nodes that contain activities using Standard, Peer Review, Assisted Assessment or Observational Assessment workflows.
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Common Assessments in-use across Organizations & Programs
- This section will display the number of unique Standard, Peer Review, Assisted Assessment or Observational Assessment workflow activity templates that have been used to create published activities across these hierarchy nodes.
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Students (unduplicated) being assessed
- This section will display the number of unique students that have received these Standard, Peer Review, Assisted Assessment or Observational Assessment workflow activities.
The Student Assessment Progress by Term section displays a chart with the aggregate count of student submissions status for each activity in the associated term.
Users also have the ability to drill down for more information by clicking on any area of the generated graphs to get more information regarding each of the Standard, Peer Review, Assisted Assessment or Observational Assessment templates which were used to publish activities.
Across from each of the activities templates listed you can find the hierarchy node where that template was created, how many activities were published using that template and the count of student submissions in each submission status: Awaiting Submission, Awaiting Assessment, and Done.
Program Leader Insights
Program leaders and administrators that gather assessment data through Student Learning & Licensure can monitor assessment activity for their program. Insights are surfaced to answer key essential questions including:
- What is the overall student learning assessment participation for my program for the given term?
- How many students are being assessed, and across how many key assessments?
- How many instructors and courses are participating in assessment?
- What courses and course sections are actively engaging in assessment for the given term?
- Is student submission or faculty assessment on or off track?
- What courses are not engaging in assessment in the given term?
Note: If your institution does not have Student Learning and Licensure connected, the program leaders will see an empty state:
Boost Engagement in Assessment by Course Section
From within the Program Curriculum Engagement in Assessment widget, leaders and administrators can drill into the assessment progress for each course. The drill down provides a progress overview of assessment in the course section, with an option to email instructors who need a gentle reminder.