Watermark Activities Page

watermark logoThe W&L instance of Watermark software offers faculty and administrators an "Activities" page, which streamlines the organization and reporting of teaching, research, and service activities. By entering your activity information once, you can generate various outputs, including annual activity reports, promotion and tenure documents, accreditation reports, your CV, your campus website profile, and more.

Please refer to the summary below to get acquainted with the Activities page in Watermark.

Academic Affiliations and Achievements:

  • Professional Positions: Used mostly for PEA faculty, but could be useful to all faculty to build out an auto-generated CV.
  • Yearly Data: Imported screen that houses department and core/affiliated programs and minors. This screen also is used to populate any course release (this must be entered manually) and sabbatical information.
  • Academic Highlights: Used to highlight annual accomplishments as described on the FAR.

Instructional Activities and Student Advising:

  • Scheduled Teaching:  Imported screen that holds all courses taught for the calendar year. Faculty should review this screen annually and upload any relevant documents (syllabi, course materials, and/or course evaluations) that could be used to build a tenure and/or promotion file.
  • Teaching Innovation and Curriculum Development:  Directly related to FAR to note any new or modified courses. Also used to collect information on supporting programs and strategic initiatives.
  • Evaluating and Improving Courses:  Used to collect FAR information on course evaluations and responses. Also used for information on improving student learning and reflections on student perceptions of teaching.
  • Student Advising:  Imported screen to calculate number of student advisees.
  • Other instructional activities:  Used to produce information on guest lectures, seminars, and workshops. Also used to produce any additional information not collected elsewhere on FAR.
  • Supervised Student Work/Mentoring:  Used to produce information on any supervised student work (career advice, honors theses, advising student groups, mentoring conference presentations, etc.)
  • Camps and Clinics:  Used for PEA faculty only to note participation in camps and/or clinics either at W&L or elsewhere or any work done, at W&L, in support of teams other than your own.

University, Professional, and Community Service:

  • University Service:  University service on committees, cohorts, departmental service, etc.
  • Professional Service:  Information about service to the profession or discipline (e.g., election to office in professional organization, appointment to committees of a professional organization, including editorial advisory board membership for a society's journal, etc.).
  • Community Service:  Any community or public service (schools, state-wide agencies, community agencies, etc.)
  • Consulting:  Any consulting work - paid or unpaid.
  • Professional Mentoring:  Any information about any advice or guidance offered to colleagues during the year.
  • Inclusion and Equity:  Information on any support of diversity and inclusion activities (attending speakers addressing inclusion and equity, attending inclusion and equity talks, assisting with the DIVE weekends sponsored by admissions, committee work that serves to further inclusion and equity).

Professional Recognition:

  • Awards and Honors:  List any awards or honors received throughout the year (Fellow of the Virginia Academy of Science, Teaching awards, community service awards, election to office in a professional organization, ODK).

Other:

  • Five-Year Plan Progress:  For tenured faculty only to provide an update on their five-year plans.
  • Additional Activities and Accomplishments:  Optional section to include any additional information not covered within the other screens. This information populates at the end of the FAR.

Professional Credentials/Recognitions:

This entire section is optional. It does not populate on the FAR but will help faculty build out CVs or other reports needed.

  • Degrees:  Self-explanatory
  • Administrative Assignments:  Self-explanatory
  • Professional memberships:  Self-explanatory, but this could be used for tenure and promotion files where a list of professional memberships is requested.
  • Personal and Contact information:  Self-explanatory
  • Licensures and Certifications:  Self-explanatory

Research, Creative Work, Scholarship

  • Forthcoming and Published Work
    • This section is only for work that has been published or has a forthcoming published date.
    • Books, Book Chapter, Book Reviews, Cases, Conference Proceedings, Journal Articles, Magazines, Newspaper Articles, Op-eds, etc.
    • Dates are extremely important for this section, so only entries with a valid date within the reporting time frame will populate on the FAR.
  • Submissions and Work in Progress
    • This section is for any research creative work, or scholarship that is currently in progress-submissions, revise and resubmit, working papers, works-in-progress, and planning.
    • Artist in Residence, Books, Book Chapter, Book Reviews, Cases, Conference Proceedings, Dance Performance, Exhibitions, Film, Film Screening, Journal Articles, Magazines, Music Performance, Newspaper Articles, Op-eds, etc.
    • Dates are extremely important for this section, so only entries with a start date or planned submission date within the reporting time frame will populate on the FAR.
  • Exhibitions and Performances
    • This section is only for work that has been completed or has a contracted date.
    • Artist in Residence, Dance Performance, Exhibitions, Exhibition Catalogs, Film, Film Screening, Music Performance, Production, Theatre Performance, etc.
    • Dates are extremely important for this section, so only entries with a valid date within the reporting time frame will populate on the FAR.
  • Presentations
    • This section is for any presentation given at a conference, roundtable, panel, seminar, session, or workshop.
  • Fellowships, Grants, and Sponsored Research
    • This section is for all fellowships, grants, and sponsored research both internally and externally.
  • Media Appearances and Interviews
    • This section is for media appearances and interviews (given to non-academic audiences).
  • Conference and Workshop Attendance (where you did not present)
    • This is for any conference or workshop attendance where no presentation was given. This includes continuing education, conference, panel, or seminar.
  • Intellectual Property
    • This is to list any patent or copyrighted work.