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Something about faculty wanting to return to in-class, on-paper assignments as means to combat genAI use. GradeScope helps streamline and expedite the grading process for written assignments.

Benefits for Paper Exams

Quickly go from paper to digital – You can teach GradeScope where to look for Student names and answers on uploaded paper exams. When you upload an exam, GradeScope can then link it to an enrolled student and locate their answers to each question. You now have a digital version of a student’s paper exam ready to grade.

Double-check identities - When linked to Canvas, GradeScope can know student ID numbers. If students include their number on exams, GradeScope can use those to match uploads to students.

Batch Uploading – Once you upload a blank copy of your exam to GradeScope, it learns what the start and end of your exam looks like. If you upload a scan of 30 student exams in one PDF, it will separate them for you into 30 individual exams to grade - you do not need to upload 30 individual PDFs. Just drop a stack of student exams into your department’s copier, scan them as one pdf, and upload the whole file into GradeScope.

Even better, GradeScope can also identify if something went wrong in the upload. It will flag for you if there are too many or too few pages for individual exam. You only need to fix that exam or approve the inconsistency (for example, if a student attached an extra paper to their exam so that their submission had one extra page then GradeScope was expected). The other exams in the uploaded batch are still ready to grade.

Process scoring easily – Since grading is done digitally, GradeScope can sum student scores for the whole exam and even import the final grade directly into Canvas.

No papers to return – since everything gets digitized and uploaded into GradeScope, when students want to review their exam after grading, they can look at your feedback and their work directly in GradeScope. 

Benefits for Homework

No papers to juggle – Would you normally have students turn in paper assignments? Instead, you can have students upload a scan or picture of their work directly into GradeScope. 

Easy Photo Submissions - GradeScope has an app that allows students to take pictures of their work to submit. They do not need to find a scanner, combine images into a single file, or upload multiple files at once. If an assignment have multiple questions, students label sections of their uploads to identify where each question is answered in their work!

Benefits for Essays, Papers, Projects

Reuse Comments - GradeScope can save each comment you leave on a question and let you re-use that comment for future students. Unlike Canvas's SpeedGrader, each assignment (or section of an assignment) has its own comment bank. You won't have to filter through your comments from week 1's reflection assignment when grading a student's final paper.

In-Depth Rubrics – GradeScope has a lot of flexibility in how you score – allowing for more in depth and elaborate rubric or scoring guides than Canvas’s SpeedGrader.

Link Feedback to Scoring - You can link a comment to a rubric item or to scoring to ensure each time you give that comment, students are graded the same. If later you want to change the grade impact for that comment – just do it once and everyone with that comment has their score updated. Students

Easy Group Submissions - If students work in groups for an assignment, they can all be added to one submission. After you grading that submission, all students earn the score for it and can see your feedback. Because students are able to add classmates to their assignments, there is no need for you to manually create groups or to copy scores for multiple students in your Canvas Gradebook.

No paper to juggle – Students can upload their work directly into GradeScope for you to grade. 

Benefits for In-class Worksheets, Reflections, etc.

Quickly go from paper to digital – Scan and upload work that students turn in during class. You can teach GradeScope where to look for student names to link each submission to a student. If GradeScope cannot identify a student on a submission, it gives you a warning and an opportunity for you to manually assign the assignment to a student. You now have a digital record of a student’s work! Give feedback and grade it, then both you and they student have a record of their in-class work without the need to return it to students.

Student Submissions - You can have students upload their own work to GradeScope during or after class. GradeScope has an app that students can use to take a picture of their work and submit it.

Easy Group Submissions - When uploading student work, you easily assign multiple students to one submission or, if students upload their own work, they can add their group members to a submission. When you grade the submission, all students earn credit and can see your feedback. 

Batch Uploading – You don't need to upload each student's work individually. Instead, if you give GradeScope a blank copy of the assignment, it learns what the start and end of the assignment looks like. If you upload a scan of 30 student submissions in one PDF, it will separate them for you into 30 individual assignments - each one tagged with students' name. 

Benefits when Grading Short Answer Questions

Reuse comments - GradeScope can save each comment you leave on a question and let you re-use that comment for future students. Unlike Canvas’s Comment Library, comments are stored only for specific questions – but you can copy existing grading rules from one question to another.

Link feedback to scoring - You can link your comment to scoring to ensure each time you give that comment, students are scored the same. If later you want to change the scoring for that comment – just do it once and everyone with that comment has their score updated.

Group Like-Student Answers - GradeScope can interpret student responses and form groups of student responses that are similar. You can just grade one response in that group, and then all students in that group get that feedback and score.

Truly Grade Question-by-Question - You can setup assignments so that you are shown only responses to each question. Want to grade question 4? GradeScope will show you only the answer to question 4 for student 1, then student 2, then student 3, then student 4, and so on.

Benefits when Grading Multiple Choice Questions

Range of response options – GradeScope can work with Scantrons, bubble sheets, circled answers, written letters and more. You don't need to fight a Scantron machine - just upload a picture or scan of the filled in Scantrons for GradeScope to analyze.

Quickly identify and grade written answers - Teach GradeScope where to look for student answers on a blank copy of the response pages. Then GradeScope can identify what each student answered.

• If students fill in scantrons or bubble sheets, GradeScope can identify which bubble is filled in.
• If students circle an answer, GradeScope can identify by where students marked on the scan.
• If students write a letter choice, GradeScope can interpreting which letter students wrote.

If you also tell GradeScope the correct answer for each question, it can then score the questions and provide any feedback you’ve linked to each answer option. 

Quickly fix any mistakes - Concerned about GradeScope misidentifying when a student chose answer B? It can show you a gallery of every student’s work that it identified as answer B. You can just click on a picture in the gallery to overwrite GradeScope’s decision and reclassify what the answer the student chose.

Benefits to Teaching Teams

Shared Grading Guidelines - For an entire assignment or individual questions in an assignment, you can build grading rules within GradeScope. When members of your team grade, they select from these rules to help keep grading consistent. If a new rule gets added, everyone on the team sees it and can use it.

Grade Students in Groups - You can arrange your students into groups in GradeScope and then assignment graders to only grade students from each group. For example, if you have discussion or recitation sections, this allows team members to review and grade work from just students in their sections. 

Grade Question-by-Question - If an assignment has multiple individual questions, you can view and grade only student answers to specific questions. For example, you can have one team member grade question 1 for all students and another member grade question 2 for all students. This helps keep grading consistent across students.

Benefits to Students

Faster Turn Around Time - Graders often report much faster grading with GradeScope than paper-grading or grading within Canvas's SpeedGrader. This faster turn around time with your feedback helps students as they may be more likely to act on your feedback for their next assignment.

Clearer relationship between feedback and grade implications - In GradeScope you can link your comments to "rules" for how you've scored an assignment. Students can see directly that specific comments added to, or penalized, their score for a question.

Less juggling paper - Just like can be done in Canvas's SpeedGrader, students can upload pictures, scans, or digital versions of assignments and see your feedback right in GradeScope. With GradeScope, though, the same can be done with paper exams - return digital versions of their on-paper work along with your feedback.

Easy to request regrades - Students can request you regrade a portion of an assignment with a simple click of a button (if you enable regrading requests when setting up an assignment). You reply to their request directly in GradeScope, updating their score along side your regrade if warranted.

Creating a Course Within GradeScope

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Connecting GradeScope and Canvas

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Making the Assignment in Canvas

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Making the Assignment in GradeScope

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Am I required to use GradeScope?

No.