Gradescope Instructor Information
UO is adopting Gradescope, a web platform to help instructors give better feedback and grade more efficiently!
Gradescope should be ready to launch Fall 2026!
Until then, explore this (in development) site to learn about Gradescope.
Please return when Gradescope launches!
What is Gradescope?
GradeScope is a web platform for grading student work, hopefully more efficiently than grading by hand or with Canvas's SpeedGrader. Both students and instructors can submit work to Gradescope for grading. For example,
- students can upload problem sets (homework) to Gradescope as a single PDF or taking pictures of individual problems,
- instructors can upload scans of students' paper exams to grade digitally,
- students can take a picture of their daily in-class worksheet to submit in Gradescope,
- instructors can replace Scantrons with Gradescope's bubble-sheet template for in class exams,
- students can create self-formed groups and submit group work just by adding group members' names to one submission, and
- many other uses. Check out how your assignments might work with Gradescope.
Once you have an assignments in Gradescope, you can use Gradescope's grading tools to evaluate students. Stop carrying around a towering stack of paper exams—digitize them and grade them online from your couch!
Gradescope and Canvas
Gradescope does not replace Canvas for your course. It is just an alternative platform for grading student work instead of using Canvas's SpeedGrader. Its grading tools offer much more flexibility and control for feedback and scoring student work than SpeedGrader has. The rest of your course - announcements, files, webpages, syllabus, etc. - will continue to exist in Canvas.
When you connect a Canvas assignment to Gradescope, Canvas shows students a link to go to Gradescope to submit the assignment. After you grade student submissions in Gradescope, you can easily export scores directly into your Canvas Gradebook for that assignment. When students want to see your feedback, they follow the assignment's Gradescope link to find your comments and scoring details.
What Do UO Faculty Say About Gradescope?
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This is a third quote about wanting to leave UO if gradescope ever goes away or other overly dramatic reaction. Oh no.
Learn about other benefits Gradescope can offer to you, your teaching team, and your students.
Getting Help with Gradescope
This site has a lot of information to help you.
- We have details about how Gradescope can support many different assignment types you might use.
- We outline six steps for how to use Gradescope, which including direct links to instructions from Gradescope's instructor guides to get you started.
- We suggest methods (and templates!) for giving instructions to your students about using Gradescope.
- We answer frequently asked questions about Gradescope and teaching pedagogy.
UO Online and TEP are here to help you with aligning Gradescope with your teaching methods. We can help you think about what sort of assignments you could use with Gradescope, brainstorm new ways to use its tools, what tweaks you can make to assignments so they are easier to grade in Gradescope, etc. Reach out to us for support your work with Gradescope.
We may be able to help you set up some things in Gradecope, but UO doesn't have dedicated technical support for Gradescope. For technical support, please see Gradescope's Instructor Guides or contact Gradescope directly.