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.
Leader Insights is currently designed for campus leadership roles such as Provost, Chief Academic Chair, or Associate Vice Provost for Institutional Effectiveness. Future development will expand insights for program chairs and deans across Watermark products.
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 accessing Leader Insights, please see article linked HERE.
How Leader Insights Helps Leaders Drive Alignment, Continuous Improvement and Student Success
Leader Insights helps leaders monitor and drive engagement in your continuous improvement processes, while creating a bridge between institutional effectiveness and student success insights for building collaborative, impactful initiatives.
At a broad level, Leader Insights helps campus leadership with real-time visibility into questions that speak to organizational and program progress related to the Watermark solutions your institution uses, including:
- How close are we to having data to review?
- How engaged are our departments and programs to institutional alignment, continuous improvement and/or student success?
In addition to the at-a-glance information, leaders can also drill down into some of the insights to understand the specific progress of individual organizations and programs and prepare for a discussion with academic councils or strategize on specific ways to drive higher engagement, where and when it’s needed.
Adding additional Watermark solutions unlocks deeper essential questions specific to the processes. For example:
- Course Evaluations & Surveys: What is the progress of student course engagement and satisfaction measures, and how does this compare to our previous response rates?
- Curriculum Strategy: What is the catalog engagement and curriculum evolution of our programs and course?
- Faculty Success: What is the scope, scale and breakdown of our faculty’s focus on scholarship?
- Planning & Self-Study: How many and which organizations and programs are participating in learning assessment? What are the programs or organizations that need a nudge?
- Student Learning & Licensure: What is our progress gathering authentic evidence of student learning?
- Student Success & Engagement: What is the proportion of students by risk category as it relates to course success and term persistence? Where are we prioritizing our efforts/key engagement as it relates to students and their course success and term persistence risk level?