Gradescope Pilot
During the academic year of 2023/2024, Clark University is running a 1 year pilot of Gradescope.
In Spring of 2024, we will solicit and consider faculty and student feedback, and usage data, to determine if Gradescope will become a permanent part of our service inventory. If you have feedback on Gradescope that you’d like to share, please contact Joanne Dolan (jodolan@clarku.edu) or the Help Desk (helpdesk@clarku.edu, 508-793-7745).
What is Gradescope?
Gradescope is a tool designed to streamline and standardize paper-based, digital, and code assignments. With Gradescope you can:
- Create on-the-fly grading rubrics for assignments and problem sets.
- Easily adjust rubrics at any time and retroactively apply changes.
- Grade assignments anonymously.
- Standardize grades across instructors and teaching assistants.
- Get detailed analytics on an individual and class-wide level.
- Grade handwritten assignments, such as problem sets, online.
- Sync assignment grading with Canvas.
- Workshops for Faculty
- How-To’s for Faculty
- How-To’s for Students
Learn about Gradescope with John Magee & Peter Story
Explore what Gradescope can do for you, and hear from John Magee and Peter Story about how they use Gradescope. Some highlights of Professors Magee and Story’s experience include the ability to design flexible, dynamic rubrics for scanned homework/quizzes, efficient division of grading tasks among TAs, support for anonymous grading to mitigate biases, and the system’s ability to use AI to group similar answers, expediting the grading process.
- Click here to watch the recording of John Magee’s presentation
- A good place to start for those new to Gradescope
- Click here to watch the recording of Peter Story’s presentation
- Focuses on autograding coding assignments
- Click here to watch the full recording
Gradescope Workshops
Gradescope offers weekly “Getting Started” Workshops. Click here to register.
Departmental Workshops/Individual Consultations
Your ATS liaison will be happy to schedule departmental workshops, or individual consultations. Please reach out directly to your ATS liaison, or contact the Help Desk for more information.
Gradescope Videos for Clark
Gradescope recorded a wonderful training session just for Clark faculty. If you’re planning on using Gradescope, we recommend watching the full training (about 1 hour).
Alternatively, you can watch smaller sections of the training below.
- Full training (1 hour)
- What is Gradescope? (2 minutes)
- Assignment Types (6 minutes)
- Gradescope and Canvas (2 minutes)
- Linking your Course and Roster (7 minutes)
- Creating an Assignment (7 minutes)
- Outlines for Templated Assignments (4 minutes)
- Uploading Scans (5 minutes)
- Grading (13 minutes)
- AI Grouping and Grading by Groups (6 minutes)
- Reviewing and Viewing (9 minutes)
- Statistics (4 minutes)
- Tips and Tricks (4 minutes)
If you’re interested in the Coding Auto-Grader, we recommend visiting this dedicated site and watching the included webinar.
Gradescope Help Center
The Gradescope Help Center offers a wealth of videos, step-by-step guides and best practices.
If you’re interested in the Coding Auto-Grader, we recommend visiting this dedicated site and watching the included webinar.
If you have a specific question about Gradescope, you can contact your ATS Liaison or Gradescope support for assistance.
The Gradescope Student Help Center offers a wealth of videos and step-by-step guides for students.
- Gradescope App: Gradescope offer robust support for submitting paper homework/assignments on your phone or tablet.
- Submitting Gradescope Assignments
- View your Submission/Feedback
If you have a specific question about Gradescope, you can contact Gradescope support, or the ITS Help Desk (helpdesk@clarku.edu, 508-793-7745).
ITS Help Desk
1-508-793-7745
Academic Commons, Plaza Level
- Mon – Thurs: 8 am – 12 am
- Fri: 8 am – 5 pm
- Sat: 12 pm – 5 pm
- Sun: 12 pm – 12 am