Assessment & Feedback

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

The release of marks and feedback is managed from the Gradescope Review Grades screen. Coursework For assessments where you want students to be able to view their marks and feedback, when all marking and moderation is complete you can Publish Grades. This will enable students to see their feedback inside Gradescope. See the Gradescope guide Reviewing Grades:

When all submissions to an assignment have been marked, you can go to the Review Grades screen to see an overview of submissions and grades. See the Gradescope guide Reviewing Grades. From this screen programme administrators can manage marks – for example send them to Blackboard.

To mark work submitted to a Gradescope assignment click on the relevant assignment in the Assessment area of your course. This will take you to the grading dashboard for the selected assignment. Click on the Question number to mark submissions for that question. You can also go into the Gradescope course, then to ‘Assignments’ and

Once you have created a Gradescope assignment and set up the Outline the marking Rubric for the assignment can be defined. This will be the responsibility of the module convener, or lead marker for the exam. Design and plan your marking rubric You are responsible for deciding if there are specific point awards or penalties you want

Once you have created a Gradescope assignment you will need to set up the Outline. This allows you to define the individual questions and assign marks to each question or part of a question. For Take Home Exams, when you set up the Outline the questions and marks possible should correspond with what is shown

Gradescope is a third party tool which is integrated with Blackboard. The Gradescope tool can allow for timed assessments, scanned written work and some programming assignment options. Gradescope options in the Content market As a third party tool you can access Gradescope via the Content Market. There are two Gradescope LTI options available via the