At Watermark, we’re on a mission to provide meaningful insights to help you understand your current state, inspire action and drive progress. In this vein, we’re thrilled to share the Insights area designed specifically for institutional leaders! Emerging for now within Planning & Self-Study, over time you can expect to see this area grow in both depth and breadth, to include insights from other Watermark products.
As a Watermark Labs release, we plan to refine the user experience and features in this area rapidly, so please don’t be alarmed as things evolve. But the substance released today is solid and is ready for you to use! We invite you to explore it and consider sharing it with your institution-level leaders. We also look forward to hearing your feedback once we’ve had a chance to introduce a few more facets.
Enhancements to Leader Insights
We’ve recently added some small but mighty new features to the leader insights area, to equip you to answer more questions, drive progress, and navigate to deeper insights about assessment plans:
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Monitor Course Learning Outcome Definition
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Navigate to an Assessment Plan
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Email leads about progress

Emerging for now within Planning & Self-Study, over time you can expect Leader Insights to grow in depth and breadth, and to expand to include insights from other Watermark products. As a Watermark Labs feature, you’ll also see us refine the user experience and features in this area rapidly, so please don’t be alarmed if things evolve or look a little different when you next log in.
Programs Mapped to Institutional Learning Outcomes Widget
Institution leads and administrators can now understand the progress programs are making in aligning to the Institutional Learning Outcomes (ILOs). This exciting new widget also includes a drill-down for each Institutional Learning Outcome, so you can identify the programs that have or have not mapped to a specific Institutional Learning Outcome.
The new Programs Mapped to ILOs widget of Leader Insights.
Drill-down of Programs that have not mapped to ILOs in the new Programs Mapped to ILOs widget of Leader Insights.
Monitor Course Learning Outcome Definition
Institution leads and administrators can now understand the progress of courses adding learning outcomes and mapping them to institution learning outcomes.
The new Course metrics tab in the Mission & Outcomes Definition widget of Leader Insights.
Please note that drilldowns are available for organizations and programs, but are not currently available for course metrics.
Navigate to an Assessment Plan
Institution leads and administrators can now navigate to the plan for more insights from the Participation in Assessment Planning widget.
The new Assessment Plan Navigation link in the lower right corner of the Participation in Assessment Planning widget of Leader Insights.
Email leads about progress
Institution leads and administrators can now quickly email leads to celebrate progress or remind them to engage. A link to email leads for a given organization or program is available in all drill-downs from the Mission & Outcomes metrics, as well as the Participation in Assessment Planning widget.
Drill-down view of Participating Programs’ Progress by Status with the Email Leads link.
Watermark Labs
As a refresher, a Watermark Labs feature is functionality made available to everyone while we continue to improve upon it. It allows you to take advantage of these features today, provide feedback, with the asterisk that there may be some areas for improvement as we continue to develop the experience. The Watermark Labs status will only be applied for a limited time while we continue to actively update the work.