Watermark - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

Watermark is a cloud-based software designed to help higher education institutions manage assessments, accreditations, curriculum, course evaluations, and faculty activity. By automating tedious tasks and simplifying data collection, Watermark’s solutions give faculty and staff more time to focus on what matters most: student success. Watermark has seven different products to provide institutions with the insights they need to support their students.

Designed specifically to support assessment and accreditation requirements, the Planning & Self-Study product simplifies strategy development, data collection, and reporting. Institutions can gather assessment data in an integrated hub and use pre-built, customizable templates to simplify self-study and program review.

Watermark’s Course Evaluation & Surveys product translates course survey responses into actionable insights that improve teaching, learning outcomes, and the overall student experience. The product has deep LMS integration capabilities and language compatibility to boost response rates and provide seamless implementation.

The Faculty Success product creates a hub of faculty activity data that can be easily maintained and used for annual review, promotion, and tenure. Data stays current by pulling from CV Imports, publication databases, and API-powered connections. It also supports integration with various third-party LMS and SIS applications including Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, Brightspace, and more.

Watermark’s Student Learning & Licensure product provides ePortfolio tools for instructors to set up learning guidelines, provide feedback, define objectives, and embed assessments into courses. Student Learning & Licensure offers a host of features such as scoring rubrics, offline access, role-based permissions, self-learning, rich-text editor, multimedia support, interactive content, text analytics, and more. Students can track their progress through their ePortfolio to view goals and display achievements via customizable timelines and social media posts.

With Outcomes Assessment Projects, it’s easy to use rubric-based assessments to measure achievement. Swiftly analyze learning outcomes, pinpoint successes, and identify areas of improvement using interactive reports that include visualizations and drill-ins on key attributes.

Curriculum Strategy is an all-in-one curriculum management solution that reduces duplicate data entry of curricular changes and ensures data consistency for content such as course descriptions, requisites, credit information, policies, and outcomes. Through seamless SIS integration with Ellucian Ethos API for Banner® and Colleague®, faculty is guaranteed to be working with the latest information about program and course offerings.

Watermark Student Success & Engagement is an artificial intelligence (AI) equity and student success solution that helps colleges and universities keep underserved students engaged, increase retention, and optimize the chances of degree and certificate completion.

Purpose built for higher education, Watermark’s suite of products reflects our commitment to providing insights that inspire progress and fuel student success.