Watermark Curriculum Strategy
A simplified curriculum management system
Easily collaborate to build and share a curriculum that powers student success with Watermark Curriculum Strategy (formerly SmartCatalog).
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Collaborate to build an empowering curriculum
- Streamline curriculum development and catalog creation
- Real-time updates ensure your online catalog stays accurate
- Inform curricular changes with student feedback, assessment data
Your course catalog and curriculum showcase the core of the student experience. It’s where your faculty and institution shine, and it’s where all students connect their future to your offerings. Watermark’s curriculum management solution helps connect your curriculum to an outcome-based education strategy while streamlining collaboration with an intuitive curriculum management workflow.
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Eliminate chasing paper (and colleagues)
Curriculum Strategy shows you and your collaborators the status of every item, what’s missing, and which edits have been made. You’ll never be in the dark again.
Each year, your registrar must publish an updated academic catalog for students and faculty to access current policies and curriculum offerings. Review and revisions can be a rigorous and painstaking process each year to ensure the information is current and accurate. With our robust curriculum management system, you can easily build curriculum proposal and approval workflows that align with complex institutional requirements and guide participants through the necessary stages of review and curriculum approval.
Whether you have high standards for options that facilitate fluent student engagement in review of the catalog, or you need a simple solution to make your catalog accessible, Curriculum Strategy is the answer.
Curriculum Strategy shows you and your collaborators the status of every item, what’s missing, and which edits have been made. You’ll never be in the dark again.
Each year, your registrar must publish an updated academic catalog for students and faculty to access current policies and curriculum offerings. Review and revisions can be a rigorous and painstaking process each year to ensure the information is current and accurate. With our robust curriculum management system, you can easily build curriculum proposal and approval workflows that align with complex institutional requirements and guide participants through the necessary stages of review and curriculum approval.
Whether you have high standards for options that facilitate fluent student engagement in review of the catalog, or you need a simple solution to make your catalog accessible, Curriculum Strategy is the answer.
Curriculum Strategy is an all-in-one curriculum management solution that reduces duplicate data entry of curricular changes and ensures data consistency for content such as course descriptions, requisites, credit information, policies and outcomes. Through seamless SIS integration, you can be sure everyone is working with the latest information about program and course offerings.
Our curriculum management solution integrates with Ellucian Ethos API for Banner® and Colleague®, so course load and curriculum data stays accurate across all systems.
Does your accrediting body require a print version of your catalog? No problem. Curriculum Strategy has an optional enhanced print capability that enables you to edit your print and online catalog all at once, while staying consistent with your institution’s existing branding.
We also enable your registrar’s office to publish student handbooks to communicate policy and codes of conduct in more detail. Whether it’s a quick simple-to-read onboarding tool or a detailed handbook with narrative content that has legal ramifications if unclear, Curriculum Strategy can help.
As a core decision-making tool for students, your curriculum says a lot about you. Watermark’s real-time updates and intuitive workflows help you effortlessly build on-brand, up-to-date catalogs.
With Curriculum Strategy, you can customize your online catalog so it feels like it is part of your website. The system works hard to keep every item updated in real time, while presenting a sleek and elegant design to your students and faculty.
Northampton Community College uses easy-to-navigate tabs to provide complete information in an organized, clear way, including an overview of the program, program outcomes, and available courses.
Using a dynamic table, Colorado Technical University makes it easy to see program listings by location. They also use Watermark’s API to display catalog information on other institutional web pages.
Wilmington University uses icons with hover text in its catalog, providing additional information about the course.
"With Watermark Curriculum Strategy, four-year plans will be housed within the catalog. It will allow students to say, ‘Okay, I like that major. Here are the courses I have to take each year.’ They will actually see their workload over four years, all in one location."
Michelle Heiny Assistant Registrar
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