average response rate
student surveys annually
instructors and TAs use this solution
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Reach more students, get feedback you can trust.
Automate processes and manage complexity with efficient self-service tools.
Customizable, inclusive, and repeatable.
Data you can actually use to drive improvement.
Help faculty interpret student feedback quickly and thoughtfully.
Capture the full campus experience and link feedback to growth.
From institutional effectiveness teams to individual faculty and even students, our platform provides the targeted tools and centralized data needed to foster excellence, streamline reviews, and accelerate career growth.
Improve data and promote a culture of data-informed decisions
by including more representative feedback from students in multiple continuous improvement processes, including annual course and program assessment, faculty reviews, self-studies and program reviews – to improve teaching and learning, student support, and other aspects that roll up into the full student experience.
Enhance teaching & curriculum development
by using data & insights from evaluations and surveys to gather feedback on instruction course content, learning objectives, and instructional materials; and refine and elevate teaching approach and revise curriculum based on evaluation data and feedback.
Make your opinions count
by rolling your feedback into actionable insights so professors can continue to improve and tailor content to meet your needs.
Promote teaching excellence and support promotion & tenure processes
by providing feedback to instructors on teaching methods, communication skills, and overall effectiveness in the classroom, and deeply integrate the use of course evaluations and surveys into the promotion and tenure processes to provide both qualitative and quantitative data and improve transparency in the promotion & tenure process.
Watermark Course Evaluations & Surveys is a centralized platform for collecting, managing, and analyzing feedback from students and stakeholders about courses, instructors, and academic programs. It enables institutions to standardize evaluation processes and use feedback to improve teaching and learning.
Unlike generic survey tools, Watermark Course Evaluations & Surveys is designed specifically for higher education, supporting institution-wide evaluation workflows, academic reporting, accreditation needs, and integration with institutional data structures.
The platform is used by institutional effectiveness and institutional research offices, teaching and learning centers, academic leadership, department chairs, and faculty members involved in evaluation, assessment, and instructional improvement. Students are the most essential user, participating in the surveys that drive all the data.
It helps institutions address low survey response rates, inconsistent evaluation processes, fragmented survey tools, limited reporting capabilities, and difficulty connecting feedback to actionable improvements.
The platform enables institutions to deploy standardized or customized surveys, collect responses from students, and ensure consistent evaluation processes across departments and programs.
Yes, surveys can be tailored at multiple levels, including by the instructor. Questions can be tailored to align with institutional priorities, teaching models, program requirements, or accreditation standards.
First and foremost by putting surveys right where students are learning – inside their LMS. With automated reminders and prompts to drive participation. Other key response rate drivers include transparent response rate tracking for administrators and instructors, automated email programs, and SMS outreach options that can be used together to reach students at the right time and place for them.
Yes. Institutions often use aggregated and structured evaluation data to support faculty annual reviews, promotion processes, and teaching effectiveness documentation. CE&S is often integrated with Faculty Success to streamline this further.
Course evaluation data provides evidence of teaching effectiveness and student experience, which can be used in accreditation reports and institutional effectiveness documentation.
Course Evaluations & Surveys works with your existing LMS, SIS, and Watermark solutions:
Automatically sync and refresh course, student, TA, and instructor data from your SIS to streamline course evaluation setup and ensure data integrity.
Source and refresh foundational data from Blackboard for fast and reliable course evaluation setup. Drive student engagement with embedded surveys, notifications, and more – all in the LMS.
Connect Course Evaluations & Surveys with Canvas to build accurate survey projects fast. Get survey links to students right where they are. Promote responses with notifications and options like gradebook points and grade blocking.
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Tap Brightspace data to simplify course evaluation setup and ensure survey accuracy. Provide students seamless access to surveys, and connect instructors to their results directly from their LMS.
Pull course and enrollment data to build your course evaluations and give students one-click access to surveys, straight from Moodle.
By automatically linking student feedback to faculty reviews, the integration saves time for both faculty and administrators and ensures the integrity of evaluation data.
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Leverage indirect measures of the student experience from Course Evaluations & Surveys to gain a complete, actionable view of performance for continuous improvement.
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Our client experience team partners with you from implementation to ongoing success. We focus on quick setup, proven best practices, and guidance to maximize value year-round. Learn more about Watermark’s award-winning support.
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