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Read Blog4 Best Practices for Sustaining Institutional Effectiveness in a Crisis
When the unexpected happens, how can you maintain institutional effectiveness despite disruption? Here are 4 ways to maintain institutional effectiveness through COVID and beyond.
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Read Blog5 Ways a Survey Solution Connects You With Students & Each Other
Open lines of communication on campus are vital, but take on additional importance during times of change or disruption. An integrated course evaluation and survey solution keeps your campus connected
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Read Blog6 Reasons to Support Distance Learning with ePortfolios
Though we often think of them supplementing in-person instruction, ePortfolios provide important opportunities to ensure that the distance learning experience is just as rich and powerful.
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Read BlogTop 5 Reasons to Use Digital Tools for Key Campus Processes
Today more than ever, higher education institutions are exploring digital tools for key campus processes, and for very good reason. If you’ve ever tried to reconcile data from two different...
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Read BlogSACSCOC Accreditation: 8 Things Peer Reviewers Want You to Know
The Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACSCOC) process of accreditation and reaffirmation is a heavy lift for those on campus preparing self-study...
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Read BlogHelping Students “Get Awesome Stuff Done”
Sharing Watermark’s project management principles with the next generation of leaders There is something magical about the pure jubilation children express, waving their hands in the air to answer...
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Read BlogMSCHE Accreditation: 7 Things Peer Reviewers Wish You Knew
The Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) accreditation is a rigorous process for those on campus preparing materials, and for the peer reviewers who review them, visit campus, and...
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Read Blog4 Solutions to Common Campus Data Challenges
Higher education is awash in data from a multitude of systems. The new challenge for institutions is bringing that data together to inform decisions, ensure institutional effectiveness, and...
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Read BlogHow Emerging Technology Can Help You Fulfill the Promise of Assessment
Universities dedicate significant time, talent, and resources to the work of assessment. Most institutions consider assessment an important self-monitoring practice to ensure they are delivering...
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Read BlogEvolving the Student Course Evaluation Process for Greater Insights
Higher education institutions seek to measure course quality, instructional quality, and learning outcomes. So why does the student course evaluation process rarely include measurement of...
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Read BlogQuality Assurance, Self-Study, and Assessment Technology at Community Colleges: A NILOA-Led Conversation
If you want to see some innovative assessment work, check in with community colleges. Because of their student population, program structure, and relationship with stakeholders, they have a fresh...
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Read BlogGood Times & Client Success Stories Define Engage 2019
From the famous jazz scene on Bourbon Street to the many success stories shared by Watermark’s clients about how they use the company’s solutions to improve their institutions, there was never a...
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Read BlogAssessment Innovation at Community Colleges: a NILOA-Led Conversation
If you want to see some innovative assessment work, check in with community colleges. Because of their student population, program structure, and relationship with stakeholders, they have a fresh...
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Read BlogHigher Ed to Ed Tech: No More Data Silos!
Higher education institutions are dedicated to supporting student success, and have a sincere interest in demonstrating their institutional effectiveness. In June 2018, EdTech reported that 61...
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Read Blog4 Questions About Syllabi Every Institution Should Ask
Whether you manage your institution’s catalog, work on a curriculum committee, or prepare accreditation reporting, chances are, you bump up against a common challenge: accessing accurate,...
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Read BlogCould You Benefit from a Certification Workshop?
When I noticed the pre-conference workshop to become certified in Taskstream AMS at the 2019 Watermark Engage conference, it gave me pause. I’m always interested in learning new things, but wasn’t...
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Read BlogWatermark’s Mohali Office Holds Largest Hackathon to Date
Recently, our Watermark office in Mohali, India held its first hackathon of 2019. With a record 13 teams and more than 50 participants, it was Watermark’s largest hackathon to date. The teams...
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Read BlogEngage 2019: Information, Inspiration & an Einstein Painting
You know those Oprah episodes where she stands on stage and points to each audience member as she shouts, “You get a new car! And you get a new car!” That’s my dream … sort of. In my dream, I’m...
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Read BlogBrew City Brains Tackle Watermark Milwaukee’s Spring Hackathon
In the twilight hours of a cold spring Friday, employees of the Watermark Milwaukee office rested their keyboards after two days spent diving into projects of their own choosing. Satisfied at the...
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Read BlogTogether We Achieve More: Attending Watermark Engage as a Team
I have attended Watermark assessment conferences several times starting a decade ago when I was a new faculty member helping to coordinate the assessment system with LiveText. Those conferences...
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