--- title: Watermark Faculty Success Reviews meta\_title: 'Watermark Faculty Success Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 80 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Watermark Faculty Success works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.0 review\_count: 80 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-07' parent\_category: name: Education ERP url: https://www.g2.com/categories/education-erp --- # Watermark Faculty Success Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Watermark Faculty Success but has limited features. Are you part of the Watermark Faculty Success team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Watermark gives higher education institutions the tools they need to easily track, manage, and examine their data. Watermark Faculty Success centralizes faculty information and processes to help faculty and administrators understand, foster, and demonstrate faculty achievement. Faculty Success is part of Watermark's Educational Impact Suite (EIS) – a suite of tools that 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. * * * Seller [Watermark](https://www.g2.com/sellers/watermark-24dc9358-eb9b-4bff-a05c-ff4802bcd3b7) Discussions [Watermark Faculty Success Community](https://www.g2.com/products/watermark-watermark-faculty-success/discuss) Languages Supported English Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Veronica Chung (Digital Marketing Manager) Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 6 months ### Return on Investment 31 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/watermark-watermark-faculty-success/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![SchoolStatus](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "SchoolStatus") SchoolStatus 4.8/5(842) ](https://www.g2.com/products/schoolstatus/reviews) [ ![PowerSchool SIS](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "PowerSchool SIS") PowerSchool SIS 4.2/5(742) ](https://www.g2.com/products/powerschool-sis/reviews) [ ![Follett Destiny Library Manager](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Follett Destiny Library Manager") Follett Destiny Library Manager 4.3/5(432) ](https://www.g2.com/products/follett-software-follett-destiny-library-manager/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/watermark-watermark-faculty-success/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 80 real user reviews. Implementation Time 6 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## Watermark Faculty Success Integrations (3) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. [ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Scopus ](https://www.g2.com/products/scopus/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Watermark Course Evaluations & Surveys ](https://www.g2.com/products/watermark-watermark-course-evaluations-surveys/reviews)[ ![Product Avatar Image](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Product Avatar Image") Web of Science ](https://www.g2.com/products/web-of-science/reviews) Show More ![Verified User in Education Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Education Management") EE Verified User in Education Management Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/14/2025 "TK20" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Watermark Faculty Success? Easy to order. The students have the ability to use it for 7 years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Watermark Faculty Success? This is a great product and don't have any issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Watermark Faculty Success solving and how is that benefiting you? Allowing the students to have 7 years access to the modules is a great feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") UH Verified User in Higher Education Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/14/2024 "Easy to navigate, easy to 'duplicate'" 4/5 What do you like best about Watermark Faculty Success? 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 waint until 'the reminder email' comes out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Watermark Faculty Success? I think all faculty hate reviews becuase 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 protech 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. What problems is Watermark Faculty Success solving and how is that benefiting you? faculty reports/ knowing what faculty are doing for the higher-ups. It has also been suggested that our annual reviews are used for merit based raises, but faculty have all but dismissed this since it has not been the case on our end Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") UH Verified User in Higher Education Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/8/2024 "A swing and a miss" 1/5 What do you like best about Watermark Faculty Success? 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 mcuh 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. What do you dislike about Watermark Faculty Success? 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. What problems is Watermark Faculty Success solving and how is that benefiting you? I am honestly not aware of any problems it is solving, it's more of a nightmare for me than anything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Response from Veronica Chung of Watermark [Editedit](https://www.g2.com/survey_responses/watermark-faculty-success-review-9626864/official_response/edit) Thank you for your feedback. We are working to improve our products daily to provide the best user experience. We're sorry that Faculty Success did not meet your expectations! If you would like to make the most of our tool, we would be happy to meet with you to address some of your concerns. Thank you again for sharing your thoughts! Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") UH Verified User in Higher Education Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/7/2024 "Great way to track progress" 4/5 What do you like best about Watermark Faculty Success? 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. What do you dislike about Watermark Faculty Success? 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. What problems is Watermark Faculty Success solving and how is that benefiting you? It helps us keep track of growth in terms of publications, grant funding and number of proposals submitted and won, presentations, faculty involvement in professional and community service, and honors and awards earned by faculty. It houses these activities for overall institutional evaluation and for dept chairs' evaluation of faculty in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") II Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/6/2019 "Faculty activity tracking made simple" 5/5 What do you like best about Watermark Faculty Success? 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. What do you dislike about Watermark Faculty Success? 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. Recommendations to others considering Watermark Faculty Success: Get buy in from key stakeholders early in the implementation process. Work with vendor support to customize pages to work best with your institution's existing standards. Explore the potential of automating integrations using the API - while it's possible to import data using CSVs, using the API is much more efficient and is also less prone to errors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Watermark Faculty Success solving and how is that benefiting you? Faculty Success has helped standardize various processes across our institution. Data collection is much more thorough, while also taking less time. The custom reporting options are useful for helping leadership to make more informed decisions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 5/7/2024 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Education Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Education Management") UE Verified User in Education Management Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/7/2024 "My experience" 4/5 What do you like best about Watermark Faculty Success? 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. What do you dislike about Watermark Faculty Success? I dont have any dislike about watermark for now Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Watermark Faculty Success solving and how is that benefiting you? Having all documents in one place for easy future access. At Governors State University, Watermark/Faculty Success is a tool used by faculty to record teaching, research, publication, presentations, awards, creative and service activities as part of the annual Review for reappointment, promotion, and tenure processes. Its user friendly and intuitive workflow simplifies and streamlines my institution's annual review, promotion, and tenure processes by providing a single place to keep current information about professional accomplishment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 5/9/2024 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Rick O.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rick O.") RO Rick O. Faculty Member Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/15/2024 "Definitely helpful for campus wide data gathering." 4/5 What do you like best about Watermark Faculty Success? 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. What do you dislike about Watermark Faculty Success? 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. What problems is Watermark Faculty Success solving and how is that benefiting you? Formal reviews and workload reporting. Annual reviews, reviews for promotion. We also use it to record faculty productivity for data aggregation at the campus level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") UH Verified User in Higher Education Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/7/2024 "Use it to map field experiences, time, and track different labels" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Watermark Faculty Success? 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. What do you dislike about Watermark Faculty Success? It's a bit complicated and hard to figure out problems or creat 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. What problems is Watermark Faculty Success solving and how is that benefiting you? Being able to implement consistent evaluations and processing the data all together. It also tracks and gives me a place to store time and levels of students in a classroom and grade. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") TH Verified User in Higher Education Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/7/2024 "Watermark Faculty Success: Empowering Educators with Streamlined Solutions" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Watermark Faculty Success? 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. What do you dislike about Watermark Faculty Success? 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. What problems is Watermark Faculty Success solving and how is that benefiting you? Watermark has helped alleviate some of the administrative burden on faculty and staff, allowing them to focus more on their core responsibilities of teaching, research, and service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Higher Education](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Higher Education") AH Verified User in Higher Education Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 5/7/2024 "Great for Performance Review" 4/5 What do you like best about Watermark Faculty Success? 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. What do you dislike about Watermark Faculty Success? 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. What problems is Watermark Faculty Success solving and how is that benefiting you? The primary problem Watermark solves on our campus is standardization of performance review CVs. As an example, in one college we previously had 23 different sets of instructions for performance review CVs, but using watermark, we now have 1 template that works for everyone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ## Pricing Insights Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 6 months ### Return on Investment 31 months ### Average Discount 6% [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/watermark-watermark-faculty-success/pricing) ##### ##### Watermark Faculty Success Features Personnel Employee Data Storage Document Management Employee Self-Service Portal Reporting and Integrations Custom Reports Integrations [ View More Features ](https://www.g2.com/products/watermark-watermark-faculty-success/features) ##### Categories on G2 [School Management](https://www.g2.com/categories/school-management-software)[Education HR](https://www.g2.com/categories/education-hr) ##### Explore More [What are the best owned media platforms for independent creators building audiences without losing ownership?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-best-owned-media-platforms-for-independent-creators-building-audiences-without-losing-ownership)[What are the best managed IoT services platforms for teams beginning digital transformation?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-best-managed-iot-services-platforms-for-teams-beginning-digital-transformation)[Which website privacy auditing tools provide ongoing monitoring and continuous compliance assessment for privacy regulations?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-website-privacy-auditing-tools-provide-ongoing-monitoring-and-continuous-compliance-assessment-for-privacy-regulations) [What is the easiest statistical analysis software for someone who is not a data scientist but needs to run meaningful analysis on business data without learning R or Python?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-easiest-statistical-analysis-software-for-someone-who-is-not-a-data-scientist-but-needs-to-run-meaningful-analysis-on-business-data-without-learning-r-or-python)[What PR analytics tools track when competitors are getting press coverage so your team knows when to push harder or when to sit tight?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-pr-analytics-tools-track-when-competitors-are-getting-press-coverage-so-your-team-knows-when-to-push-harder-or-when-to-sit-tight)[Pros and Cons Details](https://www.g2.com/products/watermark-watermark-faculty-success/reviews?qs=pros-and-cons) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);)