Gradescope Now Added to All Courses

Gradescope is available in all registrar-booked Rice courses. In this post you will learn

  • about this tool’s functionality
  • how to turn it on for your class(es)
  • where to go if you need help or training on this tool

Deliver Remote Assessment with Gradescope

Gradescope supports fully online assignments, paper-based assignments, assignments combining online and paper-based approaches, and programming assignments. You can find more information about the support Gradescope offers in this blog post and in this FAQ Guide for delivering remote assessments.

Gradescope helps you administer and grade all of your assessments, whether online or in-class. Save time grading and get a clear picture of how your students are doing.

Gradescope is perfect for classes with multiple graders and large number of students. However, it can also assist with smaller courses by giving analytics, storing common feedback, rubric creation, and more.

You can log in with your Net Id and password, link Canvas courses and assignments to Gradescope, and sync your roster and grades. Learn more on how to leverage the Canvas integration by watching this video.

Training

The Gradescope team hosts general weekly workshops on Thursdays at 9am Pacific / 12pm Eastern. A workshop is a great way to get a quick walkthrough of the platform and learn how to get the most out of Gradescope.

Gradescope also holds workshops specifically for Rice users in August. There will be one for new users and one for those who have Gradescope experience.

We will hold two Gradescope workshops the week before the start of Fall 2022. Instructors are welcome to invite their TAs and grading staff. A recording of the session will be shared with all registrants. So please feel free to register even if you can’t make it to the live session.

New Users: August 18th @ 12pm

  • Set up assignments where students can submit freeform work (no printers or templates needed)
  • Grade your existing exams and homework on Gradescope
  • Make rubric changes as you grade – changes apply to previously graded work to maintain consistency
  • Write each comment only once – apply previously used comments with a click
  • Use ‘assignment analytics’ to gain insight into student learning

Experienced Users: August 16th @ 12pm

  • Learn about some lesser-known tips and tricks for saving even more time with grading on Gradescope
  • See a demo of some of our new features
  • Have an opportunity to ask questions and share feedback \ feature requests.

Gradescope is also hosting a workshop series (August 3rd- 17th). The topics are below, and you can register for any of these sessions.

Using Gradescope for:
  • In-Person Teaching
  • Online & Hybrid Teaching
  • Computer Science
  • Multiple Choice Assessment (Bubble Sheets)
  • Existing Users
  • Within Your LMS (Blackboard, Canvas, D2L, & Moodle)

Visit the LE Training Page for the calendar and registration.

Recordings of the sessions will be shared with all registrants. So please feel free to register even if you can’t make it to the live session.

The New User workshop will cover:

  • how to deliver assessments remotely.
  • various assessment options.
  • the grading and rubric-building workflow on Gradescope.
  • the instructor and student interface for creating and submitting assignments and viewing feedback.

In the Experienced User Workshop you will:

  • Learn about some lesser-known tips and tricks for saving even more time with grading on Gradescope
  • See a demo of some of our new features
  • Have an opportunity to ask questions and share feedback \ feature requests.

*Instructors are welcome to invite their TAs and grading staff.

Troubleshooting/Issues

If you have general issues with Gradescope, you can email teaching@rice.edu. The Gradescope team is also available, knowledgeable, and happy to help with anything, so please email them at help@gradescope.com with any questions you may have.

Getting Started with Gradescope

Set up your account and course and link Gradescope to Canvas

If you don’t yet have a Gradescope account, you can create one on their homepage. Just click Log In on the Gradescope homepage, click School Credentials, and select “Rice University”.

Turn on Gradescope in your Canvas course by going to Settings–>Navigation. Drag Gradescope to where you want it in the Course Navigation list and click Save.

  1. Create a New Course using the course number and name (Ex: COMP 613 901 F20 and Databases)
  2. Skip “Allow Student to enroll via course entry code”. You want to sync the roster through Canvas and have the control of knowing each student is enrolled in Canvas as opposed to adding themselves.
  3. Click Create Course.
  4. You can link the Gradescope course to your Canvas course and sync the roster at the same time.
    1. Select Roster (linked under Things To Do OR found in the hamburger menu)
    2. Click Sync Canvas Roster
    3. Select Edit
    4. Select Authorize
    5. Choose course.

Set up Assignments in Canvas and Gradescope:

Canvas

  1. Login to Canvas
  2. Click Assignment
  3. Add Assignment
  4. Click External Tool under Assignment Type
  5. Select Find
  6. Click Gradescope
  7. Click Select

Gradescope:

  1. Select Assignments
  2. Create new assignment
  3. Select Settings
  4. Select Link under Canvas Assignment