Watermark Student Success & Engagement
Maximize impact on student success and retention
Watermark Student Success and Engagement helps institutions identify students who need support, coordinate interventions, and improve retention and completion outcomes.
Student Success & Engagement by the numbers
retention rate increase in 1 year
save up to 3.5 hours per advisor
more engagements with students
faster time-to-value with one-term prediction
Maximize impact
Offer personalized support before students need it most. Learn how Student Success & Engagement can boost retention and help your students thrive.
What to expect
Insights to improve student success
Advanced, intuitive reporting
Quickly create custom dashboards and reports without IT intervention. Provide advisors with a snapshot of their activities. View progress being made toward core institutional metrics.
Early alerts
Get early alerts when students veer off course. With predictive models for persistence and course completion, you can offer support before it’s too late.
Guided pathways for students
Collaborate with students to create a plan for success. Monitor their progress and be notified if a student faces obstacles or their goals change.
Better manage heavy caseloads
Predictive analytics help you prioritize which students to contact first. Get guidance on how to best offer proactive student support and fuel continuous improvement.
Confidence in connectivity
Integrations with the top SIS and LMS platforms – like Ellucian, Jenzabar, Blackboard, Canvas, D2L and Moodle – remove the risk of duplicate data and streamline your essential processes.
Student support from anywhere
The native mobile app allows students to easily connect with their support team, schedule appointments (with reminders), complete assigned tasks, and explore institution and community resources.
Move students through a workflow
Manage milestones and track student cohorts through your defined stages for processes like re-enrolling. View stage conversion rates and use automation to maximize advisor impact.
Demonstrate impact to accreditors
Clearly connect your student success initiatives to your institution’s mission. Report results against standards and highlight improvements using our flexible report builder.
Support each student’s journey
One place for teams to track and support students from enrollment to graduation.
Part of Watermark’s EIS
Student Success & Engagement is just one part of our Educational Impact Suite. This suite of complementary solutions, connected by our Insights Hub, uncovers key insights to help you drive progress.
Built for your institution's key stakeholders
Student Success leaders
Implement strategies to improve retention rates,
including early intervention programs, support for at-risk students, and data-driven analysis of drop-out trends.
Advisors
Develop a data-driven outreach strategy
and execute on engagement with students
Students
Stay in control of your plan
with a native mobile app that lets you connect with your support team directly
Faculty
Adopt innovative teaching methods
and technologies that enhance student engagement and learning outcomes
FAQs
Watermark Student Success & Engagement helps institutions proactively support students by connecting advising, early alerts, engagement tracking, and intervention management in a centralized platform. The solution enables institutions to identify concerns earlier, coordinate support services, and improve student outcomes.
While an SIS provider’s success tool focuses heavily on degree progression and academic records, Watermark Student Success & Engagement operates as a proactive extension of your care team by combining both SIS and LMS data into a single, centralized view. This clear visibility allows advisors to focus their energy on high-impact coaching before students fall behind. Maintaining Watermark ensures your campus keeps the advanced, specialized capabilities required to track and improve true student persistence
Student Success & Engagement is used by advisors, faculty, student affairs professionals, retention teams, success coaches, and institutional leaders responsible for supporting student achievement and persistence.
The platform helps institutions address fragmented student support processes, disconnected data, limited visibility into student needs, inconsistent intervention tracking, and challenges coordinating support across departments.
Student Success & Engagement enables faculty and staff to raise alerts, track concerns, assign follow-up actions, and monitor intervention outcomes using predictive modeling. This helps institutions respond more quickly when students show signs of risk.
The platform helps advisors manage appointments, document student interactions, trac progress toward goals, and maintain visibility into student needs throughout the advising process. It also increases your reach as an advisor – one institution doubled their reach in one semester, allowing them to connect with a much larger group of struggling students.
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