Watermark Course Evaluations & Surveys

Easy response options for higher response rates

Course Evaluations & Surveys lets students respond via smartphone or directly through your LMS. You can set up alerts, reminders, and the option to require responses to unlock grades.

Instant insights without data entry

Responses flow directly into the solution so you’ll see trends and analysis instantly, then share the results securely via your LMS. Say goodbye to hours of chasing responses, data entry, and building reports.

Bossier Parish Community College’s homegrown digital solution for course evaluations was time-consuming to set up and manage, and it often took a full semester to process surveys and deliver results. Course Evaluations & Surveys enabled them to get up and running within one week of training, and it took less than an hour to integrate with Blackboard. After implementation, the amount of money saved on paper alone offset the license cost, while response rates doubled.

Read Increasing Response Rates and Eliminating Paper SETs with Bossier Parish Community College for the whole story.

Works with your existing technology

Course Evaluations & Surveys integrates with all major LMS providers, including Blackboard, Canvas, D2L, and Moodle. It also integrates with Ellucian’s Ethos API for Banner® and Colleague®. Response data connects to the course, the student, and faculty. With the Canvas integration, you can streamline and automate delivery of course evaluations.

In 2016, Emory University worked across several schools to implement Course Evaluation & Surveys seamlessly with Canvas, putting course evaluations directly in their learning experience. Several schools saw response rates higher than 80%. Read the case study to learn how this tool changed the course evaluation game at Emory.

Include student voices in faculty development

Responses flow into Watermark Faculty Success (formerly Digital Measures), placing this important feedback directly into annual review cycles.

360-degree views with institutional surveys

Go beyond course evaluations to gather feedback from students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Responses instantly become insights to fuel decisions, without tedious data entry.

Howest University started out with their own proprietary digital solution that had limited functionality, required duplicating surveys to accommodate multiple languages, and they struggled to get distance learners to complete surveys.

Course Evaluation & Surveys gave them one solution that works across multiple languages and works well for general surveys. Participation in surveys doubled upon implementation; students can reply to surveys via mobile devices, and they can select their preferred language — meaning that all surveys come into a centralized report that can be shared immediately with instructors.

“We wanted a tool that fit our process so we didn’t have to change too much, but that offered possibilities for surveys and reporting,” said Sanne Tanghe, Quality Assurance for Howest. “EvaluationKIT allowed us to take course evaluations and general surveys and integrate them into Canvas, while also giving us the option to use a public link. It had everything in one package.”

Read Howest University of Applied Sciences Doubles Survey Participation Rates with Course Evaluations & Surveys for the whole story.

Painless path to insights

Enjoy minimal IT involvement, centralized or decentralized administration, and painless implementation. We’ll help you customize your evaluations and surveys, and we’ve also made it easy to do it yourself.

“Instead of having two student workers and staff in our office processing papers, we now have one person who spends about 75 percent of her time on course evaluations. That makes a huge difference in what we’re able to do. Faculty feel more confidence in the data. They can look at their report and know that these are my students, and this is what they have to say about the course.”

Meaghann Wheelis, Senior Research and Planning Associate, Institutional Research and Training, Baylor University

Read more about Baylor’s use of Course Evaluation & Surveys in this case study: Reimagining the Role of Technology in End-of-Course Evaluation with Baylor University.

Part of the Watermark Product Suite

Course evaluations flow into Faculty Success (formerly Digital Measures) to inform faculty reviews and other processes.