Audience:

Program leads and contributors for annual program assessment in Watermark Planning and Self Study. 

Logging into Watermark Planning and Self Study

You must have Ithaca College login credentials and be added to a user in Watermark PSS.

1. Go to https;//apps.ithaca.edu
2. Click on the Watermark tile.
3. Click on Planning & Self Study button.

If you cannot log in, contact one of the local Watermark system administrators.

User Manual

Watermark Planning and Self Study: User Guide for Program Leads [IC login required]

This user manual contains step-by-step instructions for the following.

• Managing missions statement, student learning objectives, and curriculum map.
• Entering an annual assessment plan for your program or programs.
• Creating measures and targets for key assessment activities.
• Adding results and actions.

Video Tutorials

The following video tutorials are for Ithaca College users of Planning and Self-Study.

 Watermark PSS: Curriculum mapping [IC login required]

This video covers: Logging into PSS, managing outcomes, curriculum map and adding measures.

 Watermark PSS:Create an annual assessment plan [IC login required]

This video covers: Entering a plan, adding measures, results, and actions.

 Watermark PSS: Adding Results, Findings, and Actions

This video covers: Adding Results, analyzing results, and adding actions.

Watermark Documentation

For general documentation click on the knowledge base articles for Watermark Planning and Self-Study

Troubleshooting for Program Leads

• I can't log into Watermark.
  • Make sure you go to apps.ithaca.edu.
  • Make sure you add your IC credentials.
  • If you still can't log in, contact an IC Watermark system administrator to check on your account.
• I can log in but don't see the Planning and Self-Study button
  • Contact IC Watermark System administrator.
• I can log in but i don't see any programs.
  • Contact IC Watermark System administrator.
• I can see my program but need help don't see the annual assessment plan.
  • Contact IC Watermark System administrator to add your program to the plan.
• I don't see all the courses in my curriculum map that are needed or I want to combine electives into one option.
  • Unhide hidden courses. (Click the pencil icon by courses in the curriculum map)
  • Contact IC Watermark System administrator with list of courses.
• I need to combine multiple programs..
  • There are cases where programs have the same or nearly the same SLOs.   IC Watermark System administrators can combine multiple programs into one.

Getting help

Click on the Watermark Tools Overview article for contacting the IC Watermark System administrators.