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 Gradescope

Web application for electronic submission and online grading of assessment

Gradescope can help cut grading times and provide valuable insight into student learning.

• Our Get Started page for other helpful short videos.
• Howto step-by-step directions to integrate your Blackboard site with Gradescope: Add your course to Gradescope via Blackboard
• A video with scanning tips and best practices.
• If you use a bubble sheet for multiple choice exams, please use the new template.
• The "AI-assisted" grouping and grading feature.
• A video and an image map of keyboard shortcuts.
• Our help center for written documentation and frequently asked questions.

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Frequently Asked Questions from Instructors:

1. I created a course in Gradescope and now the Blackboard Roster cannot sync. What should I do?

   Answer:  There may be a couple things going wrong. First, Do NOT login directly to Gradescope.com! Instead, always use your Blackboard course site as a "port of entry" to first create a new Gradescope Course site associated with your Blackboard course site. This can be done by adding a new Gradescope Assignment link (can be added anywhere in the course site), Find: Content area and click on the (+). Choose Content Market.
   
   On the Content Market, select Gradescope Course. When you do this the first time, you'll be asked to either create a new course or link to an existing one. Generally you only need to do this once, the very first time you're creating a new Gradescope course for a new semester. Once this link to Gradescope and Bb is made, you can sync the roster, or create new assignments. Full step-by-step directions are here: Add Gradescope course site to Bb Ultra
   
   Second reason why sync may not work is you may have a mismatch between your Blackboard email of record and your URAD email of record. The email IDs can vary if you have a "vanity email address" assigned to you by your dept. affiliation. Hajim School and some Science depts. have this frequently. When you have two different email addresses, you effectively have created a duplicate Gradescope ID as well. You will need to merge the email IDs on Gradescope before you can proceed further. Gradescope has written up these directions for: Merging Accounts on Gradescope.

2. Can you tell me about the student experience for Gradescope? Are there videos or resources that show what things are like for students?

   Answer:  Yes, we have a video here that goes over all student workflows on Gradescope. The video has chapters so that you can jump around to see various parts of the workflow: Gradescope Student Experience

   You may also find it helpful to read through our student help center here:  https://www.gradescope.com/help#help-center-section-student-workflow

3. When an instructor enrolls a student in a course via Blackboard import, how is that student notified?

   Answer: When the instructor syncs the roster from Blackboard to Gradescope, they'll have an option to send an email notification to all imported students.

   

   If you, the instructor, check this box, all students will receive an email with instructions for accessing Gradescope. If you don't check the box, students won't be notified, and the instructor will be able to send out the notification email later, once they're ready to publish grades for the first assignment.

4. What do students see when an item is graded? How do they see feedback?

   Answer: The student workflow is laid out step-by step including the final viewing of grades and submssions. Gradescope.com support pages clearly show this in the student help center:  https://www.gradescope.com/help#help-center-item-assignments-submissions-show

5. Do students need to create a Gradescope account or is this all linked with Blackboard?

   Answer: All linked through the link you created in Blackboard course site! Gradescope accounts are automatically created for each student when the instructor syncs the roster with Blackboard. So students do not need to individually register for accounts. Nor does the instructor need to export a roster from Bb into .csv and upload it. It's all self-contained with the Blackboard integration with Gradescope.com. As long as you provide your students access to the Gradescope Course Link tool in your Bb course site, and tell students where it is, and instruct them to click on it, everything will work smoothly.