Course evaluation systems should drive action, not administrative burden. If your current setup means long setup cycles, manual data work, and low response rates, it may be time to see what’s possible.
One of the most notable improvements has been in our student response rates. With our previous system, we struggled to reach a 30% participation rate. Since implementing Watermark, our response rates have soared to 75%, making our course evaluation data far more representative and actionable.
Roger Y., Vice President of Academics
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Course evaluations are too important to be managed through clunky workflows. Yet many teams are still spending valuable time rebuilding terms, chasing student participation, exporting reports, and trying to make sense of open-ended feedback after the fact.
Watermark Course Evaluations & Surveys is built to make the process easier from start to finish. Evaluations live where students already are, setup can be copied from term to term, and results flow into self-service reporting tools that help your team move from feedback to action.
If your course evaluation process still depends on manual setup, disconnected reporting, and student outreach that is easy to miss, there’s a better way to run it.
See how Watermark Course Evaluations & Surveys compares.
| Feature | Watermark Course Evaluations & Surveys | Vendors including, but not limited to, Explorance, Blackboard (formerly Anthology), SmartEvals, and Scantron |
| Response rates | Consistently strong (70%+ on average) for insights you can trust | Often low and unsatisfactory |
| LMS & SIS integration | Seamless with major solutions; students respond directly in their LMS with automated reminders to drive participation | Incomplete, unreliable integrations that increase burden on staff and fail to engage students |
| Survey customization | Flexible and tailored by program, course, instructor, or modality | Limited or costly customization |
| Reporting & analytics | Immediate, intuitive reporting with clear trends and actionable insights | Slow, clunky reporting that can be difficult to analyze |
| Instructor access | Dashboards and AI-driven insights make feedback meaningful and easy to act on | Limited faculty-facing tools; reports are hard to interpret and apply |
| Time savings | Quick, guided implementation in as little as 6 weeks to get up and running | Long, resource-heavy implementations with high IT demands |
| Campus-wide impact | Connects seamlessly with Watermark’s assessment and faculty review solutions for broader impact to help turn data into action | Siloed from other institutional systems |
| Customer service | Dedicated, higher-ed focused support team to resolve any issues quickly | Generic, slow-to-respond support |
| Innovation | Actively evolving to be ahead of your needs with new features like instructor insights for AI-powered recommendations | Stagnant solutions with limited innovation |
Q: Can Watermark integrate with our LMS?
A: Yes. Watermark Course Evaluations & Surveys integrates with Canvas, Blackboard, D2L, and Moodle, and others, making it easier for students to access evaluations and for institutions to drive participation.
Q: Can we migrate from our current system to Watermark?
A: Yes. Our team can walk through your current evaluation process, data needs, LMS setup, reporting requirements, and academic calendar to help build a transition plan that fits your institution.
Q: How does Watermark help improve response rates?
A: Watermark helps reduce friction for students by embedding evaluations in the LMS, supporting automated reminders, and giving institutions tools to manage participation throughout the evaluation period.
Q: How does Instructor Insights work?
A: Instructor Insights helps faculty make sense of open-ended student feedback by surfacing themes, summaries, and recommendations. Faculty can also review the underlying comments that informed each insight.
Book a personalized demo. We’ll show you how Watermark Course Evaluations & Surveys can support your institution’s LMS, workflows, reporting needs, and goals for student feedback.