Watermark Faculty Success Reviews & Product Details

Easy to order. The students have the ability to use it for 7 years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This is a great product and don't have any issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Watermark Faculty Success is easy to navigate as the categories and sections appear to be created with our institution in mind. I am also a huge fan of being able to duplicate artifacts as we often do the same things each year (same conference different city, or similar publication just a few details changed). I also like that if I a, thinking about it, I can input details any time of the year- I don't have to wait until 'the reminder email' comes out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I think all faculty hate reviews because there are too many targets to try and hit (do I focus on research or teaching? How much is too much and is it worth writing down every little thing I do?) I would love to see limits set on institutions, like priorities, as a way to protect faculty from going overboard. For example, I have a colleague who includes their work around the office like "cleans out fridge at end of semester". Yes, this is a sort of service, but the fact that they can get that far into the weeds is a bit of a downer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is aesthetically pleasing in design, with the purple. Allegedly it streamlines the process of submitting promotion and tenure and faculty evaluation paperwork to the appropriate parties, however I have only ever submitted, not received, so personally I don't know much about that, just what I've heard. For example, I send my materials to my supervisor, who can approve & add commentary, and send to an assistant Dean who can then send to a Dean- streamlined. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While it means well to try to be user friendly, the CV import tool is wildly inaccurate and actually wastes more time transferring in multiple of the same items, screwing up dates/titles/etc., and I waste more time manually correcting/deleting/rearranging the poor data transfer than I would spend taking the time to tediously, manually type in everything.

This next complaint is probably my organization's fault in their design/use of Watermark, but there are several layers/levels to input data (e.g. scholarly 1, scholarly 2, scholarly 3) with no additional information or guidance regarding what goes in each subsection. A constructive criticism would be to add help buttons you can hover over for descriptions of what is included in each section.

I also dislike that Watermark separates student evaluation reporting from our annual faculty self evaluation and promotion and tenure sections. As we usually have to include student evals in these sections, it would be nice to connect them to our accounts, rather than me having to download PDFs from one section of watermark, to return to the main screen and select annual faculty evaluation and then have to manually upload to watermark, the PDFs I just downloaded from watermark. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Our institution tracks our engagement with the academic and general communities by measuring research productivity and extramural service from year to year. Having a centralized portal for faculty to enter their activities as they go helps us track our growth over time and helps faculty prepare for their tenure and promotion reviews. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The system holds so much information, including items that we don't need to track. It would be helpful to eliminate extraneous fields or at least highlight the most critical ones to make sure that faculty don't get overwhelmed with all of the different screens and data fields. We also wish that it imported course information from Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Faculty Success is designed with faculty in mind - but more importantly, it is extremely customizable, which allows each institution to set up activity tracking in a way that works best for them. The Faculty Success API allows schools to create custom integrations with other tools in use on campus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Certain routine tasks, such as adding a new value to a drop down menu, can only be done by Watermark support staff. What should be fairly straightforward can sometimes end up taking two weeks for this reason. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interface is accessible and easy to navigate. As the primary system used for faculty annual review and promotion & tenure processes at GSU, it is a great repository product that allows for the leveraging of faculty information in a variety of ways, from reporting for accreditation, to tracking teaching, research and service activities on a safe and secure platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I dont have any dislike about watermark for now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Clearly for the academic context and the layers of review that come with formal reviews. With effective administrators of the platform, it is somewhat customizable for the needs of the institution. Key: the institution needs a clear sense of how things should run and how the platform will be used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It could benefit from more imbedded definitions and help screens. The reports menu is vast but not as clear as it could be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that I am able to create different areas that aren't always connected to a course. I also like that it can track time, grade level, and other markers by person and keeps track. It's a nice way to keep all evaluation data together and runs reports for me instead of having to do it manually. The customer support is always super helpful and easy to reach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a bit complicated and hard to figure out problems or create different courses sometimes. Data cannot be shared at different tiers/levels. I'd really like to be able to rearrange the activities in a specific course. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's user-friendly. Watermark Faculty Success has an intuitive interface that makes navigation and use effortless for faculty members and administrators. It has a wide range of features that we have found useful in a diverse array of applications, from performance evaluations to tenure tracking. We also appreciate being able to customize permissions by user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is a learning curve. While the interface is user-friendly, some users may still require time to familiarize themselves with all the features and functionalities of the software. We also found that setting up Watermark Faculty Success may require significant initial configuration and customization, which could be challenging for institutions with limited technical expertise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that is syncs with our other institutional data systems and with outside pulbications aggregators (Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, etc.) so we can collect data for faculty performance reviews without having to rely as much on individuals' memory and data entry. It save the faculty members time and results in higher data quality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The workflow system does not allow for weighted performance review scores by FTE or workload amount. If that enhancement was made, we could adopt the workflow system as well as the faculty activities reporting system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.