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Don’t just prove compliance, prove value. Build a foundational system for excellence with assessment and accreditation software that drives engagement, builds agility, and turns data into institutional action and measurable outcomes year-round.

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Features & benefits

Watermark Planning & Self-Study is an integrated, centralized platform designed to streamline your institution’s continuous improvement processes.

It unifies planning, assessment, program review, and accreditation, creating a hub that fosters campus-wide engagement in reflection and action. This comprehensive solution empowers you to move beyond a compliance-only mindset, driving continuous excellence and demonstrating institutional value throughout the year.

  • Get an instant look at your progress. Use real-time dashboards to track progress, spot gaps, and monitor mission alignment throughout the year.
  • Drive evidence-based impact. Visualize trends and longitudinal data for a clearer understanding of your performance.
  • Identify and track actions taken on learning and success outcomes.
  • Leverage AI-assisted analysis and recommended action items to efficiently turn findings into a clear path for meaningful change.

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  • Establish a reliable foundation for continuous quality. Replace manual workflows with configurable, repeatable processes for assessment, program review, and accreditation for sustainable, integrated activity.
  • Focus time on strategic improvement. Free up faculty and staff time so they can dedicate their energy to improving programs, not just reporting on them.

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  • Link learning to curriculum. Automate curriculum mapping to align learning outcomes with course content.
  • Measure impact and close the loop. Identify gaps and measure how curricular changes impact student learning and program effectiveness.

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Jumpstart accreditation and program reviews with a stronger assessment foundation.

  • Centralize your work in a single hub with access to a shared evidence library and pre-built templates.
  • Easily find and document longitudinal program performance and actions taken to improve.
  • Confidently manage multi-stage reviews. Take advantage of collaborative authoring tools and progress tracking to ensure compliance and showcase institutional quality.

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Integrates with your ecosystem

Planning & Self-Study works seamlessly with your existing systems. Automatically pull in assessment results, streamline processes, and connect with other Watermark tools to amplify your impact.

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Expert support from day one

Our client experience team partners with you from onboarding through ongoing success. With proven methodologies and tailored guidance, we ensure a smooth rollout and long-term value.

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Our clients are driving real impact with Plan

7,000+

programs have created curriculum maps

301K+

outcomes assessed

2,000+

self-studies created

3,000+

program reviews completed

What do our clients have to say?

A one-stop-shop for me

“The top benefits that Garrett College has experienced has been the overall time-saving and efficiencies. Prior self-studies, we would have to either run to somebody’s office and grab different pieces -
“The top benefits that Garrett College has experienced has been the overall time-saving and efficiencies. Prior self-studies, we would have to either run to somebody’s office and grab different pieces of evidence, or we would have to go to the president’s office for final drafts of a document. Now everything’s housed in the repository. The second thing: ease of use. If I’m working on a strategic plan and an action gets assigned to an accountable person, they easily can go in and update their progress. The third thing: being a one-stop shop for me: assessment, accreditation, strategic planning, and everything there will feed directly to the accreditation and to our mission. -
Kelli Sisler, Director of Institutional Effectiveness, Garrett College
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A one stop shop!

“We have used Watermark’s Planning & Self Study for years now and I love how flexible the system is. We use P&SS for our academic program review, our general education -
“We have used Watermark’s Planning & Self Study for years now and I love how flexible the system is. We use P&SS for our academic program review, our general education review, our strategic planning, and our accreditation report submission. I think the system is easy enough to use that we can allow faculty to log in and enter the data for their IE data. I really appreciate how easy it is to do a year by year comparison on IE results. … P&SS helps me by combining the function of several different software programs into one. Prior to implementing P&SS, we used a homegrown system for academic program review and core review, we used a competitor for accreditation reporting, and we used yet a different one for strategic planning. It has saved lots of time and headaches to combine them into one.” -
Cherie Hohertz, Assistant Provost for Accreditation and Strategic Initiatives
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Was a godsend for our reaffirmation process

“The ability to easily collaborate with colleagues across various areas on campus, share evidence items, and customize our compliance certificate.”
Pamela Miller, Vice President for Academic Affairs
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Look no further!

Watermark Planning and Self-Study offers the integration of academic program review, accreditation self-studies, and strategic planning!
Jana V., Director of Faculty Services and Assessment
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Engage 2025

“If anything, Watermark kind of inspired us. Once we started really familiarizing ourselves with Planning and Self-Study, we recognized, ‘You know what, we need to raise the bar ourselves’. And -
“If anything, Watermark kind of inspired us. Once we started really familiarizing ourselves with Planning and Self-Study, we recognized, ‘You know what, we need to raise the bar ourselves’. And I’ll just say these first set of assessment plans that I’ve seen, [chef’s kiss].” -
Jonathan Renz, Research Associate in the Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Quality Improvement,

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