Student Learning & Licensure Release Notes

Implement Archived Site and restore an archived site functionality on New PM Admins are now able to archive Sites in New Placement Management. This action will keep the site aligned to any existing placements but will not allow the site to be added to new student placements. Sites can be archived on the Partner Site tab within Placement Management via the menu button at...

Ability for administrators to search for and view user profile details With this release, administrators will have the ability to view a list of all users from their institution and view their user profile details. Administrators will also be able to search for a specific user and view their user profile details. This ability will be available to administrators under Pr...

Typo correction in activity history area The typo in the message “No activities have been aligned to this template.” has been corrected with this release. Previously, the word “activities” was misspelled as “activties” in the message.   Issue with generating/downloading Extracts An issue was reported with users being unable to generate/download extracts. Upon investigat...

Mentor/Supervisor Time Log Visibility Previously, mentors and supervisors could view the time logs of students assigned to other mentors or supervisors. This issue primarily affected students with multiple placements. After the fix, mentors and supervisors will now only have access to the time logs of their own assigned students, ensuring that only relevant data is visi...

Include Draft and Scheduled placements in the Placement Data extract With this release, New Placement Management institutes will now be able to access draft, scheduled, and published placement details through the Placement Data extracts. To support this update, a new column, Placement Status, has been added after the Placement ID column in the Placement Data extract. Ad...

Introduce Student Notes on Placement Details card “Student Notes” are now available on the Placement Details Card in New Placement Management. Comments added to the “Student Notes” section will be shared with students, mentors, and supervisors in the student view of their placement details and will be included in emailed placement information (if email notifications are...

Updating the rubrics details page button from "Save & Close" to "Save" With this release, we have updated the “Save & Close” button to the “Close” button on the view rubric details page to reduce confusion. After this release, when users assess and enter feedback on the view rubric details page, clicking the “Close” button will reflect the data on the assessment panel o...

Ability to add comments/annotations in document viewer With this release, students, assessors, and course section instructors will be able to add annotations and comments when previewing uploaded documents using the document viewer. A few notes regarding the feature: Users will be able to highlight content and add annotations/comments. Users will be able to respond to ...

Template Folders for Admins Introducing our new Template Folder Feature within Academics and Offices, designed to help admins organize activity templates more efficiently. This feature allows admin users to create folders, making it easier to navigate to the templates you need. With this enhancement, you can: Create and name folders to group relevant templates together...

Enhancement of Partner Site Dashboard With this release, the partner site dashboard now be available in a table form in New Placement Management. The partner site table will now be available with the following columns: Partner Site (will display the Site name) Address (will display the address of the partner site) District (will display the district of the Partner sit...

Bulk Status change for Placement Status With this release, the field placement coordinators can change the placement statuses in bulk in New Placement Management. On the placement dashboard, a “BULK STATUS CHANGE” button will be available on the screen. Once an FPC clicks on the “BULK STATUS CHANGE” button, an immersive window will be displayed on the screen with “DRAF...

Search and Pagination - Courses As an administrator courses can be searched from the Course Catalog Code and Course Name, to handle a large number of course pagination is also implemented.   Placement Coordinators will be able to sort the student placements using Section, Site and Status columns as well. With this release the placement table is now sortable by student n...

Update Default Hierarchy Behavior As an Admin, or Faculty with Admin privileges, you have access to the Academics & Offices feature. When the number of nodes is fewer than 100, the nodes will automatically be displayed in an expanded view, showing both child and sibling nodes. However, if the organization node count exceeds 100, the hierarchy’s default view is in a coll...

Search available in In Progress for Faculty As a faculty member or administrator, now we have search functionality that significantly streamlines the process by eliminating the need for tedious manual scrolling and searching for course sections. With this enhancement, you can quickly and easily access the specific sections you need, saving valuable time and reducing adm...

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Watermark Customer Community!    Connect with fellow Watermark users to share experiences and seek real world advice to maximize your Watermark experience.    The Community is conveniently connected to the Watermark Help Center and no separate login is required. You can view the Community here or access from the Help Center ...

Placement coordinators will have the ability to keep draft placements hidden from students With this release, placement coordinators will have the ability to draft placements before releasing them to students in New Placement Management. Placement statuses have been introduced and will control visibility of the placement: Not Started: When a student is enrolled in an...

LTI 1.3: New grade return error validations With this release, we have introduced validations for cases where an error is encountered when SL&L tries post grades to the LMS. The scenario and the corresponding error validations that will be displayed are listed in the table below: LMS Scenario Validation Canvas When the end date of the Canvas course has passed. SL&...

Communication Management - Notify External Applicant of Application Status This feature holds three Program Application notifications, Application Accepted, Application Denied, and Application conditionally Accepted to support prompt communication of application status between program administrators and students Accept and Merge Applications When Applying Student Does N...

Assessment Projects Watermark’s newest product offering, Assessment Projects is now available! Assessment Projects supports juried assessment practices by providing features to configure an assessment project, identify eligible evaluators, timebox the assessment cycle, and utilize both common and specialized rubrics to assess student learning across multiple courses, de...

Allow user to specify role to associate to assessment when a user has multiple roles With this release, the admin or instructors using reporting insights will be able to accurately report on the assessments that are completed by users who have more than one role within the same section, so that their accreditation reports contain accurate data. Modifications after relea...

To enhance the overall user experience and create a more cohesive workflow, we will be transitioning all administrator functionality to Academics & Offices. In April, the following tabs in Classic Admin are scheduled for removal: Standard, Rubric, Template, and Admin. To assist with this transition, we have recently reorganized our help center articles, so that you can ...

Activity Templates can be archived Users can now archive the Activity Templates so that they can no longer be used in any course sections. Visibility of archived Activity templates with a badge "Archived" Activity Templates that are archived will be accompanied by a new “ARCHIVED” badge for the user to recognize those out of others in the Template listing with ease. Fil...

Disallowing assessment submission for students who have not purchased an account With this release assessors would no longer be able to save or submit assessments for students who have not yet purchased an SL&L account. This restriction only applies to SL&L institutions that are on the Student Purchase model. When an assessor attempts to save or submit assessments for a...

Replace "Not Assigned" with "-" for Placement Dashboard With this release, in New Placement Management, we have replaced “Not Assigned” with a dash (“-”) when no value is assigned on the Placement Dashboard. This change makes relevant information easier to find at a glance. Increased flexibility for Activity Scheduler Due Date When utilizing the activity scheduler, the...