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# Watermark Planning &amp; Self-Study Reviews
**Vendor:** Watermark  
**Category:** [Assessment Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/assessment)  
**Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 71
## About Watermark Planning &amp; Self-Study
Watermark gives higher education institutions the tools they need to easily track, manage, and examine their data. For over twenty years, colleges and universities have used Watermark solutions to complete assessment and accreditation requirements, capture and analyze student feedback, showcase faculty accomplishments, and improve student engagement. Watermark&#39;s Educational Impact Suite (EIS) puts data into context so faculty and staff can focus on what really matters: institutional and student success. Learn why Watermark is trusted by over 1,700 colleges and universities to support continuous improvement at www.watermarkinsights.com.



## Watermark Planning &amp; Self-Study Pros & Cons
**What users like:**

- Users benefit from the **ease of use** , making collaboration and training straightforward and efficient across campuses. (4 reviews)
- Users value the **efficient organization** of Watermark Planning &amp; Self-Study, simplifying annual program reviews and documentation access. (2 reviews)
- Users value the **collaborative features** of Watermark Planning &amp; Self-Study, enhancing teamwork and resource management across campus. (2 reviews)
- Users value the **ease of use and excellent customer support** provided by Watermark for effective collaboration and training. (2 reviews)
- Users find the **affordability** of Watermark Planning &amp; Self-Study a significant advantage for accessing valuable resources. (1 reviews)
- Users appreciate the **excellent customer support** from Watermark, which aids in learning and implementing the program effectively. (1 reviews)
- Users value the **customization options** in Watermark Planning &amp; Self-Study, enhancing collaboration and user-friendliness. (1 reviews)
- Organization Management (1 reviews)
- Platform Integration (1 reviews)
- PowerPoint Integration (1 reviews)

**What users dislike:**

- Users face **assessment issues** due to ongoing adaptation to new workflows, complicating the completion of reports. (1 reviews)
- Users find the **difficulty in tracking improvements** with Watermark Planning &amp; Self-Study limits its effectiveness for deep analysis. (1 reviews)
- Users find the **insufficient training** resources lacking, making it hard to fully utilize the Watermark Planning &amp; Self-Study. (1 reviews)
- Users find the **limited customization** options frustrating, needing a consultant for feature adjustments. (1 reviews)
- Users find the software **not intuitive** , especially transitioning from other systems like Taskstream, affecting ease of use. (1 reviews)
- Poor Customer Support (1 reviews)
- Poor Navigation (1 reviews)
- Poor Reporting (1 reviews)
- Time-Consuming (1 reviews)

## Watermark Planning &amp; Self-Study Reviews
  ### 1. Look no further!

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Jana V. | Director of Faculty Services and Assessment, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2024

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Watermark Planning and Self-Study offers the integration of academic program review, accreditation self-studies, and strategic planning! If you are using multiple programs supplemented with shared folders or spreadsheets, look no further. Watermark Planning and Self-Study is your answer! The tool is easy to use and is intuiative for infrequent users. My favorite feature is the ability to build onto your program reviews year after year. This provides clear documentation of student learning outcomes, measures, actions, changes, adapted student learning outcomes, new measures, new actions, and so on to show a culture of assessment and continual improvement. Watermark is continually upgrading features so challenges are addressed quickly.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

The one downside of Watermark Planning and Self-Study is the set-up and implementation. Let me explain, though. I'm an office of one who had a short timeframe for implementation. I was learning and training at the same time. Consider giving your implementation team the time to be familiar with the product before rolling out to the key stakeholders.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Watermark Planning and Self-Study allows us to focus on improvement rather than the mechanics of where and how to save the data related to academic program reviews.

  ### 2. Our experience as a community college has been positive

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Cesándari R. | Assessment Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Planning & Self Study keeps all the information organized in one place by Unit/Program and by year. Whenever we need to verify progress on a specific Strategic Goal, we can easily see what has been submitted and what is missing.

I recommend using this tool because, after submitting the information, users can clearly see how the data aligns with the Strategic Goals. At a glance, we can also verify which goals have been addressed the most. Additionally, sharing screenshots of progress has motivated units to improve their submissions.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

The only drawback is the structure of the system. Sometimes we encounter mistakes due to confusion in the fields, and unfortunately, we cannot delete incorrect information.

Something that has improved is customer support; response times have been reduced.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I would like to create a rubric with sections for the title and outcome and possibly start an Excel spreadsheet to track suggestions and consolidate all feedback and subsequent submissions in a single document.

  ### 3. A one stop shop!

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Cherie H. | Assistant Provost for Accreditation and Strategic Initiatives, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2024

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

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.  I think the reporting features of the accreditation self study areas are excellent.  We just completed our ten-year reaffirmation of accreditation, and it was a simple process to use the templates provided by Watermark for our compliance certification, our focused report, and our response report.  I would definitely recommend P&SS to other institutions.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Two things that come to mind...
1) It would be nice for Watermark's products to "talk" to each other.  For instance, when I'm entering faculty data into P&SS, it would be much easier for me to be able to pull that data directly from Faculty Success.  Similarly, it would be nice to be able to pull course information from Curriculum Manager into P&SS or Faculty Success.
2)  When we download the yearly reports of the academic program reviews from P&SS, if they are printed, the font is so small it is impossible to read.  I've tried formatting the reports every way I can think of, but they are not customizable.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

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.

  ### 4. A great tool for preparing the reports

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Carlos F. | Professor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Aligns goals, tracks outcomes, supports accreditation, enables collaboration, and drives continuous improvement.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Less useful functions include overly rigid templates that can limit flexibility in representing unique program structures or nuanced narratives. The interface, while functional, may feel unintuitive or outdated, leading to a learning curve for new users. Customizing reports and dashboards often requires technical support or advanced training, reducing accessibility for average users. Integration with non-Watermark systems can be limited or cumbersome, especially for institutions with diverse data ecosystems. Automated notifications and workflow tracking, while helpful, can generate excessive emails or lack nuance in complex review cycles. Additionally, the platform's emphasis on compliance and documentation may encourage a box-checking mentality, potentially detracting from genuine reflection and innovation. While these limitations do not negate the system’s value, they can hinder user engagement and reduce the efficiency of institutional processes if not carefully managed. Institutions must invest in training and thoughtful implementation to mitigate these challenges.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

AACSB accreditation. Important part of my job.

  ### 5. Excellent Software for Managing Program Review Process

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Kristine W. | Director Of Institutional Research, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2024

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

It is straight-forward, easy to understand the hierarchy. Steps are easy to follow. Training new faculty on the software is much easier after obtaining additional administrator training due to our administrator leaving the role. Watermark went above and beyond to provide excellent customer support to ensure we understood how to get the most out of the product.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Initially it wasn't that intuitive. This had more to do with what we could do on our own as administrators in this software when most of our exposure was to Taskstream (now Outcomes Assessment Project).

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Standardizing the assessment of programs across the university. It allows the flexibility of program outcomes to be assessed in such a way that it is easy to compare across programs in the same college, or overall college performance when compared to other colleges within the University.

  ### 6. I am a secondary user required by my unversity to annually share data on the platform.

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Heather M. | Assistant Dean, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

I like that P&SS imports data from Student Learning and Licensure (SLL).  The charts that summarize the reported data are helpful and P&SS provides a space to delineate plans for continuous improvement.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

The integration with SLL is clunky and requires a lot of sorting that should, ideally, be done by PSS.  For example, after selecting a semester for review and a course for review the P&SS does not limit the choices of rubrics from which to pull data.  I only use PSS once or twice a year, and feel it could be a little more intuitive especilally when trying to gather data from the SLL.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

PSS provides an easy to read report and year over year archives.

  ### 7. Watermark Planning and Self-Study Review

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Erminda V. | Director of Registration and Records, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

The platform offers a structured and intuitive interface that allows faculty, administrators, and staff to easily input data, attach supporting documentation, and track progress.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Although the interface is relatively intuitive, initial onboarding requires dedicated training sessions and support, especially for users who are not familiar with assessment terminology or digital workflows.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

In the past, assessment and planning activities were often siloed across departments, using a mix of spreadsheets, shared drives, and manual documentation that made institutional alignment and reporting difficult. Watermark consolidates all assessment and planning functions into a single platform. This improves visibility across the institution and enables departments to align program goals, student learning outcomes, and strategic initiatives with university-wide objectives.

  ### 8. Need to improve ability to track actions for informed decision-making and implementation

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 23, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

It's generally easy to navigate and edit once you get the hang of it.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

One problem is that you need to know where to go to enter certain information. For example, at my institution, we are asked to provide a summary result in narrative form that directly corresponds to the target criteria for success. If I  have a learning outcome and use the graph feature (met, exceeded, etc) - which is not really useful at all - I also have to write the actual result. I need to know where to click to activate both the graph and the summary. That's not very visible. 

Another problem is that I like to attach supporting documentation about both my measures and results and it wasn't clear that attachments in the measure description section get pushed over year to year while the attachments in the results section do not. That is not apparently clear to me as a user. But now I know.  There is no optimal place to include documentation about how results were disseminated nor is there a field entry box to explain whether and when assessment results and actions were disseminated internally or to other stakeholders. 

The graph feature is only available on the learning outcomes - but even then  there is no value added to having a graph that is too generic. for one, people can't really see which expectations were met (relative to what?). Additionally, the graphical representation of summary results is not "Actionable." only if results are just so bad, then graph will show some general need to improve. But otherwise, it's pretty useless (but it sure looks professional to have a graph). Why not make the graph customizable. For example, if I were to use a rubric with multiple domains or have a multiple-choice exam with multiple component areas or if I wanted to compare overall scores for subpopulations of students, then a customizable graph perhaps in the analysis section of the report would be much more useful.

The actions section while good at tracking updates, they get embedded into the report where the "Action" originated. This is not as helpful because actions that are still in progress or are actively being implemented do not get pushed over from year to year with a thread of updates on what was done and when. Therefore, the "Actions" feature is nice, but also kind of useless. It requires users to go back to the original report or to copy and paste actions into the current report year to provide an update. I want to be able to show the progression of actions as they move beyond the proposal stage to in progress to "complete" and then show how the action impacted results. 

There are also no sections to propose and track actions at the programmatic level only at the measure or outcome levels. I do not like how the actions get tracked on the report at the outcome level because they look out of place. When actions are provided at the measure level they look clean and help the reader connect the dots between 1) slos 2) measures, 3) results/analysis and 4) actions. 

Finally there is no section to include other updates or explanation or relevant context about the state of the program or unit that might need to be included (for example, organizational changes, new leadership, low enrollment, signature initiative at the college level).

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

report assessment activities in a central location.

  ### 9. Centralized Information and Easy Flow

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Brittany H. | Assessment and Accountability Coordinator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

I am the Assessment and Accountability Coordinator for a School of Education. Over the past year, I have used Watermark Self-Study Report platform to support our state mandated accreditation preparation and planning efforts. My experiences with Watermark have been productive and a major support for our program. One of the greatest strengths of the platform is that it is already aligned to CAEP standards. We have embedded NELP (leadership standards) and InTASC (teacher-based standards) into the platform. This helped streamline the process of uploading required information into the CAEP portal and transferring those details over to the Watermark portal. I was able to provide all of the pieces of evidences (files, pdfs, etc.) into the Watermark portal. Faculty members were able to access the information they needed to support our accreditation process.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

If the portal could link with CAEP's AIMS 2.0 that would help by allowing me to add information into Watermark and the details are transferred over to AIMS 2.0.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Ensuring that we are able to move towards re-accreditation of our program within the time constraints provided. The ease of reading data already added to Watermark for our programs.

  ### 10. Watermark Planning and Self Study is One of a Kind!

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Dafney J. | Coordinator of Institutional Research, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Watermark has proven to be actually what I was told, shown and introduced it to be! The customer service support has been phenomenal and super friendly with the best turnaround time when contacted. I am in awe with the number of features and options to ensure that my college reaches their academic goals.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Nothing at this time. I have only been using in this platform for a little over 6 months and so far so good.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

A one stop shop for all of our Annual Program Strategies and Student Learning Outcomes. We were using an excel spreadsheet to display all of this for each academic department.

  ### 11. The system is good but some of the aspects are controlled at the local may not know how to modify.

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Josh H. | Professor and Undergraduate Coordinator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Being able to have off-site access (separate login from the university single sign on) and data backup is really nice as the university IT is not stable but the offsite login allows me to keep working.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

I wish that it was not restrictive such as being able to add courses not on the map, I have to ask university support staff instead of being able to add it myself.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Allows shared user use and we have a template word doc for the mass to submit and then the few submit on watermark

  ### 12. Helpful tool for SLO assessment tracking and organization

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2024

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Watermark planning and self study helped us to easily manage self-studies, program reviews, and ensured clarity on requirements. Data entry was relatively easy and straightforward. The power of the tool was bringing together assessment data in one place so that we could see what was accomplished or not and make decisions accordingly.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

The tool did require some training to get comfortable with it. Some users had a steeper learning curve than others. And, as with any off-the-shelf tool, sometimes the tool doesn't customize to fully meet your campus' needs. Integration did take some time - not all stakeholders were on board with the new approach / tool.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It helped us to get organzied and streamline program review, track progress, and make actions for improvement visible.

  ### 13. Excellent planning software for university accreditation

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Holly H. | Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Accreditation, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

The user interface is easy to understand and implement across all members of a self-study team.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

We had significant issues with copying documents outside of watermark and pasting them into the system. Since we were using active links within the text of each section in watermark, we had to be able to edit pre-written documents in the system. Sometimes formattingwould have errors that were not easily fixed.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I’m not sure if the formatting issues are being addressed, but overall that was the only serious issue we encountered.

  ### 14. New User of Planning & Self-Study

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Paul W. | University Assessment Coordinator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

I am new to the system, but I feel like it has been easy to pick up more understanding of the system each day. It is user-friendly, and there is little in the way to make me feel like I might mess something up. In sharing the system with colleague and introducing folks on how to enter their data for reports, the general response has been very positive. I think with more time, folks will become very comfortable with Planning & Self-Study for its ease-of-use.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

It can be a bit much to navigate sometimes. For programs at the bottom of the list, there tends to be a lot of scrolling within 'Organizational Management'. I know I can minimize drop-downs to prevent as much scrolling, but the drop-downs always return to being fully open when the page refrehses.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It is centralizing the assessment process for our university, so the biggest challenge is making sure our users are comfortable with data entry and accessing system.

  ### 15. Using Watermark for Program Assessmemt

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

The ability to have documents and data preloaded by others and that can be used as evidence in the assessment. I also like how easy it is to use - the interface is easily understood and navigated.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

I have not really found anything I dislike yet about the platform. I have used it for 2 annual assessments and now the big 4 year program review.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

A seamless platform in which program and department chairs can upload and develop evaluations and assessments for their programs and one in which administrators can also track and monitor progress.

  ### 16. Assessment Coordination for Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics

**Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

The ability to review previous years' materials and to start with data from prior year loaded into TaskStream

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

The degree to which it is disconnected from our BlackBoard LMS and from other Watermark products utilized by the university.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

TaskStream assessments result in each department on campus generating assessment reports that are sufficiently parallel to be easily comparable to other departments in the College and the University. The retention of prior years' assessment materials is a huge help both as a reference and as a starting point for current year's assessment.

  ### 17. Not very user friendly

**Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

There is not much that I like about this.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

It's not user friendly; anytime i have questions, i cannot talk to a person, i only get sent emails with links to read information. i've asked for additional training and was told that for a fee we could have some training. the initial training was not all inclusive, it went too fast and was not enough.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I don't feel they are solving anything for me.

  ### 18. Organized Institutional Data for Program and Accreditation Reviews

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Kirstie D. | Provost, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

The most helpful aspects are that all my program data live in one place for historical reference and access. Prior to the purchase of this resource, we had data on personal computers, excel spreadsheets and in emails. Now all Deans update year for their programs and I can review it when needed. Also very helpful if a Dean leaves the university, I do not have to worry about where to find the Program Review and Assessment data.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

That we cannot customize features without having to work with our Watermark consultant.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The organization and storing repository of all our Program data. is the biggest problem this resource solves for our institution.

  ### 19. One Stop Reporting

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 08, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

What I like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study is its ability to centralize IE efforts in a user-friendly platform.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

What I dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study is that navigating between modules may require additional training or support.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Watermark Planning & Self-Study is connecting planning, assessment, and accreditation processes by providing a centralized platform to align goals, track outcomes, and document continuous improvement. This benefits my university by saving time, increasing transparency, and making it easier to demonstrate IE and readiness for accreditation reviews.

  ### 20. Watermark for Student Success

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Easy to use tool that helps to centralize all Academic Enterprise Information needed to make data-informed decisions. Customer support is phenomenal from implementation to integration. We use it for many of our academic operations.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

I can not think of anything at this time.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Course evaluations, program assessments, student licensure, and we are starting faculty evaluations and promotion and tenure.

  ### 21. Easy to Use

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

It was intuitive and easy to use for the purpose of assessing student work. Clicking rubric components, leaving comments, and in-document edits was smooth.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

It would be helpful to arrow to next student's work rather than being taken back to roster. It would be helpful to have a general comments box to enter comments outside of opening the rubric and leaving comments there. The drawing tool is helpful for in-document edits and would be best viewed as part of the highlighter/comment icon that appears when highlighting student work.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Universal assessment

  ### 22. Great resource

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Michelle Y. | Office Admin, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

This product is such as asset when it comes to many needs of teachers and students alike when it comes to planning and studying

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

There isn’t anything that I dislike about this product

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It benefits me by alleviating frustrations that may be present upon figuring out difficult things

  ### 23. Used this program as a student teacher mentor.

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Primary/Secondary Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

I thought it was user friendly and easy to navigate.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

I didn’t find any downsides when I used the software.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Tool that we use with student teacher mentoring program.

  ### 24. Collaborative, Simple Self-Studies

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** David C. | Director of Accreditation and Assessment, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Compared my institutions accredito portals, dedicating three self-studies and writing committees to PSS greatly streamlined our work. Resources were easily shared, turned into exhibits, and updated as needed.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

The assessment and strategic planning aspects are too rudimentary. Good for at a glance reporting but not for tracking improvements or deeper dives into what's working and what's not.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Streamlining team effort by serving as a central data repository.

  ### 25. Many easy-to-use tools and support

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

What I really enjoy about Watermark is the ease of navigation and that there are so many tools to choose from. Also, my team has received thorough support every step of the implementation process.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Sometimes it can be overwhelming trying to choose the right tool to use.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I would say tracking student observation hours accurately... Watermark is helping us create an interface to do this.

  ### 26. Great Implementation and Easy to Use

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Sabrina B. | Data Analyst and Program Transitions Coordinator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2024

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

What I like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study is how thoroughly the implementation process is handled. It ensures that everything is set up correctly and functions smoothly from the start. Additionally, the system is incredibly easy to navigate, which makes it straightforward to use even if you're not particularly tech-savvy. The combination of a well-executed implementation and a user-friendly interface makes it a powerful tool for effective planning and self-study.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

One aspect I find less favorable about Watermark Planning & Self-Study is the rubric creation process. Unlike Taskstream, where you can upload pre-existing rubrics, Watermark requires you to create rubrics from scratch within the system. This can be quite tedious and time-consuming, especially if you have detailed or complex rubrics. It would be a significant improvement if Watermark allowed for easier importing or uploading of rubrics to streamline this part of the process.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

atermark Planning & Self-Study is solving several key problems, which significantly benefits us. Firstly, it empowers faculty to generate their own reports, providing greater autonomy and flexibility in data analysis and reporting. The system centralizes the report writing process into a single space, making it more streamlined and efficient. Additionally, it facilitates collaboration by allowing multiple users to work together on reports, enhancing teamwork and ensuring comprehensive input. Another major benefit is its smooth integration with the university’s LMS, which ensures that data and processes are seamlessly aligned across platforms, reducing duplication of efforts and improving overall efficiency.

  ### 27. Watermark Planning & self Study Has Made My Work Life Easier

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Sonnie G. | Executive Assistant to the Vice President of Institutional Effectiveness and Communications, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2024

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

I have been using Watermark Planning & Self Study primarily for program review, and it has become an indispensable tool in Rock Valley College’s assessment and continuous improvement efforts. The platform simplifies the entire program review process for me from data collection to feedback to sending off the reports. The interface is intuitive and I am able to easily navigate to where I need to go and I am able to easily customize the templates for our state reporting requirements. The Help section is particularly valuable, with many well-written articles that provide clear guidance on how to make the most of the platform’s features. If I cannot find what I need in the Help section, the customer support has been exceptional, and quick with responses.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

It is not quite so easy to archive old Program review reports due to someone that was a reporter leaving the college and I have had to reach out to Watermark to archive them for me.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I am able to better keep track of where we are in the report and who has filled in their areas. Previously, program leads would fill out a template that was in Word and we had to wait until they were done, review it, send it back for updates/corrections a few times which was very time consuming.

  ### 28. Piloting department annual review - on admin and faculty side

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Great workflow. I liked the organization of the system for annual program reviews. Documentation was easy to add and assessment marks easy to view.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

The main downside was internal to my organization and the fact that we were still adapting to the new system with old processess and procedures. Next year when this is done more broadly it will be much easier to work with and complete annual assessment reports.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Annual assessment for academic program review of SLOs. This process will be much more streamlined and organized with this product compared to our previous solution.

  ### 29. Watermark Greatly Helps Simply Admin Processes!

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Ester R. | Assessment and Accreditation Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2024

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

The ability to create and customize self-study templates allows them to be used for a variety of institutional processes. I also like the ease of use/trainability for new users. Each time we set up a new user with a template, it is very simple to implement for the new users. Our faculty and staff have gotten used to utilizing Watermark for several tasks, and the system is now a part of our program review, assessment, and federal reporting practices.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

I would like to be able to create templates for reports that will be created on an annual basis without having to keep "empty shells" there or pay for an additional service for these templates to be added.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We complete our annual internal institutional assessment plans within Watermark. We also utilize Watermark Planning and Self-Study for program review, specialized accreditation reporting, and other routine reports.

  ### 30. Director of Institutional Research & Registrar

**Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Self-Study is our Institutions next platform, and we are looking forward to the results with our academic team.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Providing a different platform for the training videos would be beneficial for institutional training purposes.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We have not encountered an issue yet; I am hopeful it will meet our small institutional needs.

  ### 31. Modernized outcomes assessment reporting

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Elaine V M. | Assistant Director of Assessment, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** May 16, 2023

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

We upgraded from Taskstream into Planning and Self-study, and it was like moving into the 21st century. It is easier to use and is a much simpler interface. The reports generated are great summaries of each program's work and the institution overall.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Since it is a fairly new product, some things still need to be developed. We anxiously await the monthly report with the latest updates to the system. It took a bit longer to implement than we thought it would, but very worth it in the end.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

One of the problems we had with Taskstream is the faculty did not like to use it as it was somewhat complicated. Planning and Self-Study has simplified the user interface and ti will be easier to get faculty to use it. We also hope it will help with Academic Program  Reviews in the future.

  ### 32. Such a Valuable Tool

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 24, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

User-Friendly Interface: Navigation is straightforward. 
Integrated Assessment Tools: Facilitates the alignment of institutional goals with departmental plans and learning outcomes.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Learning it took more time than expected.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Allows areas to be cross-functional, and that is helpful when working with different and various departments.

  ### 33. Was a godsend for our reaffirmation process

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Pamela M. | Vice President for Academic Affairs, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 18, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

The ability to easily collaborate with colleagues across various areas on campus, share evidence items, and customize our compliance certificate.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

User support can be cumbersome and time-consuming.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Strategic Planning, Student Learning Outcome tracking, accreditation compliance

  ### 34. It's not paper files...but...

**Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2024

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Certainly there is a scale and efficiency that can be useful with this product. Multiple stakeholders/readers can access documents -- from wherever they are -- and do their work. Think tenure & promotion files, for example. This is a benefit and replaces, in this example, the old "giant binders on a cart locked in the provost's office and available from 10 - 12, M - F." Or something similar....

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

I dislike the forced structure that is hard to work with. When the material is written and organized by others, it means that individual or personal elements disappear, and unique file materials cannot easily be added. The software itself has a clunkiness that is frustrating, to say the least, when trying to process enormous amounts of document. Ex: clicking and clicking to find something, then trying to return to an exact previous spot...only to be 'clicked' back to the beginning or to an index or spine. Makes reading enormous, important file materials hard/er than it could be.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

In my case, there are two problems: assessment materials for accreditation self-study AND assessment materials for my department.

Benefit: materials can be accessed anywhere, any time, and not merely in person via one copy that scores of people may need to read. Items may be more easily adjusted, amended, added to.

  ### 35. We just implemented in Sept 23 and are utilizing many aspects of this program. We love it.

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** GARY R. | Director of assessment and Institutional Research, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2024

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

The curriculum map option is very important for Program Review. i have faculty start there to review their Program Learning Outcomes, required courses and then where they are going to assess those outcomes. 

The templates for program review were easy to create and then duplicate. 
Overall I use Watermark 3-4 times per week. 

The 800 number for support is awesome - they are very patient with me as I was learning this program.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

It doesn't make sense to me why the curriculum map isn't in the program review module.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We now have a centralized process that is uniform across programs.  We love it.

  ### 36. Good product, sharp looking.

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Karina K. | Assessment & Accreditation Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2024

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Faculty have commented that it is much easier to use based on previous assessment software; much more user-friendly and professional.  The customer support is good - they are open to feedback from users and will implement our suggestions over time.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

It is a bit expensive, depending on your budget.  There seem to be a few features coming soon that will cost extra, which is disappointing.  I wish some of the reporting features were better.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Centralized assessment repository, link results to LMS data, streamlined reporting.  Hopefully will lead to more data-driven decision making by programs.

  ### 37. User-Friendly Platform and Seamless Integration into Planning

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2024

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Watermark Planning and Self-Study houses our program learning outcomes, action plans, and correlated data in one place, making it easy to see trends and to document continuous improvement efforts. It has become an integral part of our annual data analysis process. The platform is intuitive and user-friendly. When I do have a question or techical issue, Watermark's support and customer service are top-notch.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

If you are new to the Watermark suite of products, there can be a learning curve. However, I have found that the training and support ease any transition.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Watermark Planning and Self-Study serves as a powerful tool in documenting our program learning outcomes and continuous improvement efforts. This serves us in-house in a myriad of ways, but it also facilitates a smooth evidence process for external accreditors.

  ### 38. Intuitive, responsive, and useful

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Tim M. | Associate Vice President Institutional Effectiveness, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2024

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

It's an easy to use software and almost all faculty note that the features are simple to understand that is visually appealing. The structure is most useful to capturing needed information to inform program improvement. The connection to Canvas for extracting and examining student learning evidence is very helpful.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

The ability to use rubrics in assessment plans is great, but the same feature would be as helpful in program review. Most features are easy to manage once somewhat familiar with the system.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Our institution needed to connect student learning measurement to action items in seeking improvement in learning as well as alignment to program level learning outcomes. The curriculum mapping feature is great at connecting the program courses to the sites of assessment.

  ### 39. User Friendly

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 25, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

The one thing I love most is the storage capability and the different platform connected to this system for easy data retrieval.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Not enough training videos for references.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The biggest problem was keeping up with survey data result from students.  Now that it  is housed and sent from the Watermark platform the process is a lot more seamless.

  ### 40. Watermark aids our leadership in structuring our plans for the future and budgets.

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2025

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Composing action steps effectively for goals.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

I think that some of the steps are repetitive.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Outlining future needs and associated costs.

  ### 41. Planning and Writing a Self Study

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 31, 2024

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

The most helpful parts about the Planning & Self-Study were its ability to generate comprehensive reports, build detailed documentation, and demonstrate course alignment to meet accreditation standards.
I like that this app can be use frequently, over the years. In addition, the available customer support is a great plus!

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

I did not see anything wrong with this app. It has great ease  of use & integration.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

This app highlights the following:
Analyze and report on student learning outcomes in the ways your accreditors encourage. Ensure equity and effectiveness in your programs and demonstrate that you’re meeting their standards. Differentiate academic results between students majoring within a program and students who took program courses as an elective. Fuel continuous improvement initiatives by getting more specific with your data. Now you candemonstrate parity both internally and to accrediting bodies by disaggregating data however youneed to

  ### 42. Great training & support from Watermark SL&L team, intuitive software, and broad-scope capabilities

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Susan G. | Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2024

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

The Watermark SL&L Team is very helpful. Most components of the SL&L software are intuitive, and I especially like the professional look of the e-portfolios. This is the only option I've found that provides assessment, e-portfolios AND fieldwork management (plus more!).

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

There is a lot to learn, and it's difficult to get buy in on our campus. The one-year contract we purchased last fall is almost over, although our training did not truly begin until May 2024.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I needed an e-portfolio system for my grant-funded program. I hope to inspire my colleagues to use the other features of SL&L to manage fieldwork and assess student learning/skills.

  ### 43. New user

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Kerry J. | Coordinator of Assessment, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2024

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

This system is connected to other Watermark products so there data can be located across platforms

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Not being able to connect to our LMS, which is Moodle. It connects with others, but not that particular LMS.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It will allow us to tie in our assessment data with our assessment reporting.

  ### 44. Effective Solution for Program Planning and Annual Reporting

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** James  H. | Clinical Associate Professor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2024

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

I can manage program review and annual reporting process for an entire institution easily that can be customized to our heirarchy.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

It's difficulty to connect with other Watermark tools

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It allows us to author and submit official reports, aligned to programmatic outcomes for accreditation and program improvement puporses.

  ### 45. everything all in one place

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** cynthia d. | Professor, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2024

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

I like that the system saves my information and that I can forward in information from previous years and also add new information

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

I would like to be able to upload graphics to illustrate data

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

providing one place to upload all program information and data for review

  ### 46. Excellent System

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Rebecca F. | Assistant Registrar, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2024

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

I enjoy the ease of utilizing the system. Additionally, everything is well laid out and well-connected.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Some of the terminology can be difficult to understand.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The guide is helpful in knowing what items need to be assessed and what information may be missing.

  ### 47. User-friendly

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Joyce B. | AVP for College Assessment and Accreditation, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2024

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

I like the fact that you can create different templates for different program reviews.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

I wish program outcomes used different terminology to match SACSCOC definitions.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

You can save all assessment documents in different files in different reports, very much like a one-stop shop.

  ### 48. Watermark Self-Study

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 23, 2024

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

It has been very helpful for me. The structured, step by step guides make the topics understandable. This method allows me to review on topics i need to focus and progress at my own pace.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Nothing to dislike about the Watermark Planning & Self-Study. Even Watermark Customer Support has been very reliable with very quick turn-around.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

When i have issues with different types of reports. Solutions are available by reading the FAQs and watching past webinars

  ### 49. Great Product, Great Service

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2024

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

The Planning and Self-Study software is very easy to use and is intuitive. Our implementation went very smooth and our product manager is very promt in their responses to questions.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

I have not run into any issues with this product or any of Watermark's products for that matter.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Planning and Self-Study is amazing at managing the information we need to maintain our institutional accreditation.

  ### 50. Seamless platform

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 27, 2024

**What do you like best about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

This platform was a wonderful tool when submitting lessons for my student teaching. It is easy to navigate.

**What do you dislike about Watermark Planning & Self-Study?**

Some of the downsides is that if a file your uploading for an assignment or even a video that is required to be a certain length is too big then the platform stuggles to upload. Also glitch's happen but affect how one can access the assignments and how others can be submitted. Can be frustrating and hard to figure out sometimes.

**What problems is Watermark Planning & Self-Study solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Just maybe making the platform more seamless and easy to use and understand


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