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.
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 linkedAccessing 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.
Widgets displaying data specifically from Planning & Self-Study are located under the "Institution" and "Continuous Improvement" headings.
Institution Insights
The "Mission & Outcomes Definition" widget:
This widget will display the percentage of organizations in your hierarchy that have created a Mission Statement, Learning Outcomes, or Success Outcomes. It will also show the percentage of organizations that have mapped their own Outcomes to the Institutional Outcome set.
You can also click on the bar graph to receive a Count.
In the screenshot above, you will also see the link to drill down further into the data. This will present an organization-by-organization view of the data, such as seen below:
Note: This widget will display data relevant to Organizations, Programs, or Courses, for which there is a toggle.
For the purposes of this widget, consider "Organizations" to be all areas of the hierarchy that sit above Programs, i.e. Schools, Departments, etc.
The "Programs Mapped to Institutional Learning Outcomes" Widget:
While the "Mission and Outcomes Definition" widget will display organizational progress in mapping to the Institutional Learning Outcomes, the "Programs Mapped to Institutional Learning Outcomes" widget will display this data disaggregated to show progress against INDIVIDUAL ILOs.
This widget also supports the ability to drill-down further into the data to display data for specific organizations.
Continuous Improvement Insights
Note: Users can toggle between Plans from different Academic Years by selecting the appropriate year from the drop-down menu in the top-right of the "Continuous Improvement" page.
The "Participation in Assessment Planning" Widget:
With this widget, users can review participation in Assessment Plans for a given academic year. It will display data relevant to a specific Assessment Plan, which can be selected from a "Plan" dropdown at the top of the widget. Users will find the number of Organizations, Programs, or Courses that are included in the selected Plan, as well as a Count of organizations that are in a status of Not Started, In Progress, or Completed.
There is also the option to drill down for information regarding participation by program, or to email assigned program leads.
Users may also navigate directly to the Assessment Plan in Planning & Self Study by clicking on the “View more” link in the lower-right corner of the widget. In the screenshot above, the link reads "View more 2022-2023 Academic Plan Insights".