Assessment & Feedback

You can copy a Rubric from one question to another – in the same assignment, or in any assignment in any course where you are the Instructor. See the Gradescope guide Importing rubrics

You may wish to create your marking rubric before students have submitted. Create an Assignment When creating the Assignment under Create Your Rubric check the box Before student submission.  Set the Outline Once the Create Assignment button is clicked the Assignment Outline page will open. Set the Outline as usual. Create a Rubric When you

If you want to see how your Gradescope assignment will appear to students you can set up a test student account. Go into your Gradescope course and then to the Roster area. Click Add Students or Staff. Choose Single User. Enter the test user details on the Add User screen. You could call the user something like Test User –

Students are able to submit Regrade requests by default for all published assignments, and this cannot be disabled at the system level, so you will have to apply the settings for each assignment. To disable regrade requests, go to the assignment you need to edit, click on Regrade Requests from the left sidebar then click Regrade Request Settings.

This setting is used mostly for exams to be sure that students will not be able to view their marked papers. This is not absolutely essential: as long as you never Publish grades in Gradescope, students will not be able to see how their work has been marked. Ticking  Hide all rubric items provides added protection

For both Homework/Problem set and Online assignments, you can set a time limit. See Giving students extra time. The timer starts once a student clicks ‘Start Assignment’, and they must then submit within the allotted time limit. When the time runs out The assignment Due Date and Allow Late Submissions settings also affect this. If late

As with Blackboard tests, where students are allowed additional time for assessments, you can grant extensions to individual students in Gradescope. Typically you will do this for each assignment, but it is also possible to give a student extra time for all future assignments in a course. Give students an extension for an assignment Go

Online Assignment This is the assignment type to choose for exams which contain multiple choice questions, but also some questions where students need to write free text, or submit a scanned copy of handwritten work. Create an assignment from your Blackboard course or directly in Gradescope by clicking on Assignments on the collapsible left-hand menu

Homework / Problem Set assignment – students upload a PDF This is the assignment type to choose for assessments where students complete work on paper, then scan it and upload to Gradescope. Students can either submit a single PDF file, or one image per question. We strongly recommend that they combine all of their images

How do students access Gradescope? Full instructions for students on how to access Gradescope, scan and submit their work, can be found on the Student help site. What can students see inside Gradescope? Whatever kind of link students follow to access Gradescope, if they then click on the Gradescope logo (top left) they will be