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What is Gradescope?
Gradescope is an assessment and feedback platform that may be used to administer and grade exams, homework, and other assignments. Gradescope integrates seamlessly with your Blackboard course site, so you can click through to review submissions and sync grades with your course's Grade Center. A variety of assessment types is available, and Gradescope may used to deliver assessments remotely or in-person. The the grading process features powerful question recognition and indexing tools that enable instructors to provide better and more timely feedback, resulting in improved learning outcomes.
A few highlights include:
- Various assignment types ranging from fully online with many question types to handwritten, or a combination of the two
- Dynamic rubrics that help streamline the tedious parts of grading while increasing grading consistency and decreasing bias
- AI-assisted grading which allows instructors to automatically group questions by number (rather than by student) and grade all the answers for any given question sequentially
- More timely, quality feedback, resulting in improved learning outcomes
Set Up Gradescope in Your Bb Course
If you haven't used Gradescope in your Blackboard course before, you will need to complete two steps to link it to your course site. The steps in this section only need to be followed once per class (or if there have been changes to the roster).
- The first step is to Link your Course.
- Next, Sync your Roster.
- If students add/drop the course in Blackboard/Campus Connection, be sure to re-sync the roster in Gradescope – it will not update to match automatically.
- f you make changes to your roster, existing submissions and grades for dropped students will be preserved in Gradescope.
- See the Adding Students and Staff article more information. If you have any roster-syncing issues, please see Gradescope's Troubleshooting information.
- Optional Customization: To add section names, IDs, etc: After syncing, click Download Roster (on the Gradescope Roster page) to get a roster CSV file > Add your new column of info with a header to the roster CSV > If you want to be able to grade by section, make sure the column header contains the word "section" or "sections" > Click Add Students or Staff (Gradescope Roster page) > Upload the CSV back to Gradescope > Click the + sign on the roster import screen > Select the new column's header name from the drop-down > Click Import. The link with Blackboard and any existing submissions and grades will be preserved as long as emails stayed the same.
- Now, you are ready to Set up your Assignments.
Create a Gradescope Assessment
After you have linked your course and synced your roster, you can get started with Gradescope assignments and exams. No matter which type you will be using, you will get started the same way. Please visit Gradescope's support page on setting up assignments and exams.
Review the different types of assignments and their features on Gradescope's assignment types support page.
Types of Gradescope Assessments
Exam / Quiz Overview
Homework / Problem Set Overview
Bubble-Sheet Assignment / Exam
Programming Assignment
Online Assignment (Beta)
Additional overall information to help you decide which type of assessment to use:
Grade Submissions
After your students have completed the assessment, you can grade their submissions in Gradescope. Scores can then be sent to Blackboard using the instructions under Review Results & Post Grades to Blackboard, below.
- In your Blackboard course, find the assessment link you created and click it to be taken directly to the assignment/test in Gradescope.
- When your assessment is open, expand Gradescope's left sidebar (if it isn't already), and select Grade Submissions.
- At this point, the process depends on the type of assessment.
Review Results & Post Grades to Blackboard
After you grade the submissions, you can view the results, export data, post grades to Blackboard, and more using the tools on the Review Grades page.
- On the Grading Dashboard, once you have finished grading submissions, click the Review Grades link to open the next page.
- On the Review Grades page, you can view results for each student (or the whole class), download data, and more.
- After you have finished reviewing students submissions and grading, select Post Grades to University of North Dakota to send the assessment grades to your course's Blackboard Gradebook.
Gradescope Resources for Instructors
To view the complete guide including troubleshooting guidance, please view the Using Gradescope with Blackboard as an Instructor help document. UND uses the LTI 1.3 integration.
Frequently Asked Questions
Getting Help with Gradescope
Gradescope Resources for Students
To view the complete guide including troubleshooting guidance, please view the Using Gradescope with Blackboard as a Student help document.