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Turn a disconnected curriculum and catalog process into one connected system.

The curriculum and catalog management solution built for how your institution actually governs change.

Most institutions manage curriculum approval and catalog publishing as two separate, mostly manual jobs: email chains, spreadsheets, an outdated PDF. Watermark Curriculum Strategy brings that together into one connected system. A proposed change moves through an approval workflow built around how your institution actually reviews change, not a template you have to adapt to. Once it’s approved, it publishes to your catalog automatically: no re-typing, no separate layout work, and every edit is tracked, so you always know what changed, when, and who changed it.

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Curriculum Strategy by the numbers

225+

institutions using Curriculum Strategy

second catalog load time

35k+

curriculum changes approved

1.5m+

catalog visits by students per year

How it helps

Move curriculum and catalog production off paper, PDFs, and email for good.

Auto-populate proposal forms with your course and program’s current, approved data, so no one has to recall or retype a course number, credit hours, or an existing description.
Collaborate through email notifications, tracked changes, and dashboards, so everyone involved can see exactly where a proposal stands.
Publish a branded, searchable, mobile-friendly online catalog, plus a ready-to-use Word export for when you need a static, certifiable version.

Build approval workflows around how your institution actually reviews change, not a template you have to adapt to.

Create multi-step, branching approval workflows with different paths for a minor course tweak versus a new degree program.
See every course, program, and dependency a proposed change affects, directly in the proposal form, before it’s even submitted.
Route proposals to department chairs, deans, committees, and final approvers, in the right order, automatically.

A change approved in the Curriculum module becomes catalog-ready content automatically.

Cut duplicate data entry by linking your Curriculum and Catalog processes.
Choose which catalog and effective term each approved change applies to.
Publish updates without a separate layout or formatting step.

Every edit to a curriculum proposal or catalog item is tracked automatically, from the moment it’s saved.

Compare versions side by side with a Word-like tracked-changes view.
Access an unlimited, permanent catalog archive so you always have the version of the catalog a student matriculated under.
Attach unlimited supporting documentation to any proposal.

Push approved changes to your SIS without re-entering anything by hand.

Sync approved course changes from Curriculum Strategy back to your student information system to keep your official system of record up-to-date.
Review every change before it syncs, apply field-level formatting rules, and get a report if a sync fails.

Give students a catalog they can actually search, and keep it compliant while you’re at it.

Publish a searchable, mobile-friendly, accessible online catalog by default.
Meet the ADA Title II’s WCAG 2.1 AA requirements well before the deadline.

Built for your institution's key stakeholders

From registrars to academic leaders and curriculum committees, Curriculum Strategy gives each stakeholder the visibility and control they need over curriculum and catalog, without adding work to already full plates

Registrars

Keep the record accurate, on time, and defensible

by moving off manual, PDF- and Word-based catalog production and paper-based proposal routing, so your catalog stays synchronized with your SIS, every edit carries a built-in audit trail, and you’re never guessing what changed or when.

Academic Affairs Leaders

See every curriculum proposal in progress, without the email chain

by configuring around your institution’s existing approval steps and committee structure, with dependencies surfaced before a proposal is even submitted to identify downstream impact early.

Academic Deans

Reduce administrative burden without losing curriculum coherence

by routing each proposal only to the people who actually need to review it, and getting unit-level visibility into every course and program proposal in progress, without adding another manual tracking task to your plate.

Faculty & Curriculum Committees

Get through committee service without the busywork

by using auto-filled proposal forms and transparent status tracking, so you never have to retype a course description or chase down where your proposal stands.

FAQs

Watermark Curriculum Strategy is a higher education curriculum and catalog management software designed to simplify curriculum management and catalog creation. It enables higher education institutions to collaborate on course proposals, streamline approval workflows, and publish accurate, web-based course catalogs in real time.

Watermark Curriculum Strategy uses visual workflows to map out custom proposal and approval processes aligned with institutional requirements. It eliminates paper-based processes by providing real-time status tracking for proposals, tracked changes, missing-item visibility, automated email notifications, and administrative dashboards.

Yes. Watermark Curriculum Strategy integrates directly with your Student Information System (SIS), including Ellucian Banner and Colleague, among others, to synchronize catalog and curricular changes. This integration reduces duplicate data entry and maintains consistency across course descriptions, course offerings, and credit information.

Watermark Curriculum Strategy supports online, mobile-friendly, searchable, and accessible digital catalogs that can be customized to match an institution’s website branding without IT intervention. Catalogs can also be exported or printed for sharing with accrediting bodies.

Yes, Curriculum Strategy is part of Watermark’s Educational Impact Suite (EIS). Connected through Watermark’s Insights Hub, the suite links curriculum management with complementary solutions for assessment, planning, and student outcomes to uncover actionable institutional insights.

Watermark provides support through a dedicated client experience team. Implementation relies on proven setup methodologies to help institutions get up and running quickly while training staff on foundational skills to meet institutional goals.

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What do our clients have to say?

From binders of papers to one seamless software

“We used to have lots of binders, files, and folders. Now we use Curriculum Strategy to look into archived files and see all of our curricular changes. It’s a seamless –

“We used to have lots of binders, files, and folders. Now we use Curriculum Strategy to look into archived files and see all of our curricular changes. It’s a seamless process.” –

Tasha Taylor, Executive Assistant to the Provost at West Liberty University

Information feeds directly into the catalog seamlessly

“My favorite thing about Watermark is that it has restructured the way we do curriculum. Having all the information in one system that also feeds into the catalog, so the –

“My favorite thing about Watermark is that it has restructured the way we do curriculum. Having all the information in one system that also feeds into the catalog, so the students have the accurate information, the faculty have the accurate information, and now that feeds into Concourse Syllabus [so] the teaching syllabi now have the accurate information.“ –

Kristi Wood, Associate Director of Curricular Process and Systems at Central Michigan University

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Streamlining curriculum management processes with Watermark Curriculum Strategy

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Produce your catalog faster than you ever thought possible

Learn how Watermark Curriculum Strategy helped the University of Northern Colorado move from PDFs to a streamlined web-based catalog.

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