Watermark’s Educational Impact Suite (EIS)
Connecting assessment, accreditation, faculty & student success data
What is Watermark’s Educational Impact Suite?
Watermark’s Educational Impact Suite (EIS) is an integrated hub of tools tailor-made for higher education. Translating data from your LMS, SIS, and Watermark products, our EIS puts your data into context to provide big-picture insights that inspire progress:
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Unified, Interconnected Hub: It combats “digital sprawl” by combining historically separate disciplines—like institutional effectiveness, continuous improvement, and student success—into a single, consolidated user experience rather than fragmented, single-point software tools.
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Comprehensive Institutional Toolset: The suite thoughtfully connects processes for accreditation management, assessment activities, course evaluations/surveys, faculty activity reporting, curriculum/catalog management, and student retention.
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Proactive “Just-in-Time” Storytelling Data: It replaces retroactive, anecdotal updates from department heads with real-time project insights, allowing leaders to easily build a data-driven narrative for external stakeholders, funding agencies, and accreditation bodies.
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Streamlined Faculty User Experience: It digitizes manual processes (moving away from binders, paper, and Excel sheets) and provides a “guided” workflow that reduces faculty friction, helping professors feel confidently aligned with the institution’s overall mission.
One solution to guide them all: Educational Impact Suite (EIS)
Colleges and universities suffering from disjointed software solutions risk fragmenting their missions. Higher education requires a centralized system that is capable of driving critical action in core processes like assessment, accreditation, faculty review, and student success initiatives. Learn how the innovative EIS can deliver just that.
Who benefits from an Educational Impact Suite (EIS)?
Faculty
Gain efficiency and focus with the right tools on your side. Uncover insights to help you understand your effectiveness and showcase your impact. Collaborate to drive progress.
Students
Our EIS increases your institution’s ability to positively impact students’ lives. Our tools also directly simplify your workflows and illuminate insights about student learning.
Why institutions replace disconnected higher education tools
Rapid edtech adoption often creates “digital sprawl”—a web of fragmented, single-point tools that accidentally fragment your institution’s mission. Forward-thinking leaders are replacing these disconnected legacy systems to address four major institutional challenges.
Eliminating data silos in higher education
Disconnected tools keep institutional knowledge locked away in department-specific silos, paper binders, and localized spreadsheets. Replacing these systems breaks down technical barriers, bringing historically separated teams together to work toward shared strategic goals.
Reducing duplicative administrative work
When software solutions don’t talk to one another, faculty and staff spend valuable hours manually re-entering data and chasing down administrative deliverables. Replacing fragmented systems digitizes and automates these workflows, freeing your team to focus on meaningful impact.
Centralizing institutional reporting
Relying on reactive, anecdotal updates from individual deans makes tracking progress incredibly complex. A unified system delivers real-time project insights—”just-in-time” data that makes institutional storytelling effortless for stakeholders, funding agencies, and accreditation bodies.
Connecting LMS, SIS, and institutional data
Your LMS and SIS are excellent operational tools, but they can’t easily translate information into big-picture insights. A unified platform pulls data from your LMS, SIS, and campus activities into one place—putting complex data into context to answer your most essential questions.
Watermark’s Educational Impact Suite (EIS): A Unified Platform for Higher Education
Instead of bleeding resources into disconnected systems, your institution needs a unified hub that can collect, synthesize, and analyze complex data simultaneously.
Watermark’s EIS thoughtfully interconnects core processes—including accreditation management, assessment activities, faculty activity reporting, course evaluations, curriculum strategy, and student retention—so they work as a single, consolidated user experience.
Put Your Data Into Context
Watermark’s EIS translates and unifies your disjointed technologies to deliver actionable insights. By connecting your data, you gain the clarity needed to drive continuous improvement, support students throughout their educational journeys, and maximize your community impact.
See how EIS can work for youOver 1,500 institutions trust Watermark to support their continual improvement.
FAQs
Watermark’s Educational Impact Suite (EIS) is an integrated hub of edtech tools purpose-built for higher education to drive continuous institutional improvement and student success. Instead of relying on fragmented software, EIS centralizes historically disjointed processes—including institutional effectiveness, assessment planning, faculty activity reporting, and student retention—into a single, consolidated platform.
EIS eliminates digital sprawl by replacing single-point, disconnected software tools with a unified, interconnected data hub. By consolidating critical institutional workflows under one vendor, colleges and universities can break down data silos, reduce security risks for IT leaders, and cut down on software-management costs while maintaining a single source of truth.
The Educational Impact Suite unifies multiple specialized higher ed tools anchored by a centralized Insights Hub. The suite can be customized to your needs and can include:
- Planning & Self-Study: For continuous improvement and strategic planning
- Student Success & Engagement: Providing early alerts and predictive analytics for retention
- Course Evaluations & Surveys: For capturing direct and indirect student feedback
- Faculty Success: Streamlining annual reviews, promotion, and tenure processes
- Student Learning & Assessment Projects: To capture authentic evidence of student outcomes
- Curriculum Strategy: Managing course catalogs and program proposals efficiently
Watermark EIS simplifies institutional and programmatic accreditation management by replacing manual, paper-and-binder methods with digitized, automated workflows. It continuously captures authentic evidence of learning in real time, aligning institutional learning outcomes (ILOs) with strict accreditation standards so leaders can confidently build data-driven narratives for external stakeholders and review bodies.
Yes, the suite improves student retention by pairing midpoint and long-term student metrics with proactive, predictive data analytics. Instead of reacting to graduation or attrition rates retroactively, the suite’s early alert capabilities surface at-risk student behaviors immediately, allowing advisors and support staff to stage timely, targeted interventions.
EIS moves faculty evaluation, annual reviews, and assessment collection away from scattered Excel sheets and manual data entry into automated, “guided” workflows. By centralizing faculty accomplishments and scholarship categories, it drastically cuts the time spent on administrative paperwork—for instance, streamlining months of manual faculty reporting down to weeks—giving educators more time to focus on student impact.
The Watermark Insights Hub is the intelligent data-aggregation center of the EIS. It puts complex institutional data into clear context by pulling real-time metrics from planning, course evaluations, and student learning modules into a single interface. This allows provosts, deans, and institutional effectiveness leaders to spot trends, monitor program participation, and make high-impact strategic decisions backed by reliable evidence.
Yes, Watermark’s Educational Impact Suite features robust, seamless integrations with major Learning Management Systems (LMS) like Canvas, as well as campus Student Information Systems (SIS). These system integrations ensure cross-campus data consistency, automate survey distributions to double response rates, and maximize the efficiency of IT resources.
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