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Revolutionize how faculty consume and act on student feedback with the newest feature from Watermark – Instructor Insights for Watermark Course Evaluations & Surveys. Read on to learn how this new, AI-powered faculty self-reflection tool:

  • Saves instructors significant time.
  • Accelerates understanding and action.
  • Builds focus on what’s most important.
  • Provides clear evidence your faculty can use to grow and advance their careers.

Note: Initial rollout will be in English and restricted to institutions located in the United States

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June 24, 2025 at 2pm ET

See Instructor Insights in action

A new era for course evaluations: Advancing faculty development through smarter insights. Join us for the debut of Instructor Insights and get a firsthand look at new AI tools that help faculty grow, without the data overload.

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What are users saying about Instructor Insights?

  • “Boy this could save a lot of headaches.”
  • “It’s engaging and may entice more people to actually review their feedback.”
  • “This is exactly the way I want to see AI go.”
  • “If instructors use their evaluation results to elevate the quality of their teaching, and students know that their teachers take the evals seriously — that’s the dream!”
Take student feedback reporting to the next level

The results page for a course section of Child Psychology, with section name and term, instructor name, student count, a button to Explore Insights, an AI-powered overview summary of results, the response rate, and 4 AI-powered cards with top takeaways, recommendations, top categories, and a sentiment snapshot.

Save time and shift from analysis to action. Give instructors a clear, quick path for identifying what matters most to their students.

  • Cut through the noise and synthesize raw results instantly with AI-powered summaries and takeaways.
  • Find the voice of the majority and identify outlier opinions with actionable, prioritized insights backed by consistently high response rates.
  • Unpack wins and misses intuitively. Drilling into the evidence behind the findings for deeper understanding.
  • Provide faculty members a safe space — available only to them to review their course section data — to reflect and plan their next steps.

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Make more impactful improvements
  • Pinpoint the most pressing student needs.
  • Inspire teaching innovation with AI-generated recommendations for fresh ideas and the rationale behind them.
  • Enable faculty to adjust faster and have a more immediate impact on their students with insight-ready results.

A list of recommendations and points on why each matters on the left, with a right-side flyout to explore and review the background for the recommendations.

Propel faculty advancement with clear evidence
  • Drill into a specific top category for the Child Psychology course section, with the full list of categories listed on the left, and an active right-side panel with prompts to drill into the details on each category.Surface successes just as quickly as opportunities for improvement.
  • Save and share notable achievements and findings. Faculty can incorporate them however they see fit, into  professional development conversations, annual evaluations, and retention, promotion, or tenure applications.
Let’s level-set on AI

AI is powerful, but it also requires careful application. Let’s talk about its role in this feature.

Instructor Insights is an observation tool and AI coach. Instructor Insights is not a computer telling faculty how to teach.
Instructor Insights:

  • Is optional. Campus administrators choose whether to add it.
  • Is additive. It augments the raw data and reports already part of Course Evaluations & Surveys.
  • Is a toolset for faculty — and only faculty. These insights are only visible to instructors. And it’s up to each faculty member what findings they use, what they dismiss, and what they do with their takeaways.
 Instructor Insights:

  • Is NOT a bypass or replacement. This AI experience doesn’t circumvent your faculty. It doesn’t remove the need for human judgement or coaching. And it doesn’t change or replace any of the reporting tools you count on to pull takeaways from course evaluations today.
  • Does NOT feed a global model. Your institution’s data are yours. We do not use them to train the models behind these AI insights.

Read more about our commitment to the responsible use of AI here.
Double down on faculty development with a tech stack built to support it

Choosing Watermark as your technology partner for expanding your faculty-focused tools means you’re growing with a partner that’s committed to helping you and your faculty thrive. We’re the only vendor to provide:

  • This depth of faculty-focused insights.
  • Course evaluation response rates consistently over 70%.
  • Integrated software solutions that support the full faculty feedback cycle, including students, peers, and administrators. 

And we’re here to help your faculty get more out of student feedback.

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