TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Gradescope
• How to Add to Your Canvas Course
• Adding an Assignment or Exam
• Students submitting assignments
• Grading with Gradescope
• Additional Questions/Help

Gradescope

Gradescope is a tool that instructors with large classes can use to assist in grading coursework quickly and efficiently. Students upload PDFs of the assignment directly into the Gradescope tool and the instructor can apply a custom rubric that allows for uniform grading and feedback. Instructors also receive analytics concerning their assignments to better understand what students are struggling with.

How to Add to Your Canvas Course

If you are interested in using Gradescope in your canvas site, please reach out to online-learning-help@sas.upenn.edu first so we can help with the backend integration

For step-by-step information on how to integrate Gradescope into your course after speaking to the online learning support team, please look at this helpful Instructor Canvas LMS FAQ

Adding an Assignment or Exam

To grade exams or quizzes you will start by creating a new assignment on Gradescope. From the assignments page, click on the Create Assignment button in the bottom right. This will bring up a dialog box with various assignment-type options. Selecting the Exam / Quiz option will give a brief overview of the assignment type. Click Next to choose the settings for the assignment.

You will need to give the assignment a title and upload a blank copy of the exam (see Creating, editing, and deleting an assignment for more information) to help you create the assignment outline you’ll use for grading. By default, the Exam / Quiz assignment type is set up so that instructors can scan and submit their students’ work. If you’d rather have students scan or upload and submit their work, change the "Who will upload submissions?" setting to “Students” and follow the instructions for setting up a Homework/Problem Set assignment. 

Once the assignment is created, you’ll:

• Mark the question regions on a template PDF (Creating an outline)
• Upload and process scans*  (Managing scans)
• Match student names to submissions*  (Managing submissions)
• Grade student work with flexible, dynamic rubrics (Grading)

*you will not need to do these steps if students are submitting the assignments.

When grading is finished you can:

• Publish grades and email students (Reviewing grades)
• Export grades (Exporting Grades)
• Manage regrade requests (Managing regrade requests)
• See question and rubric-level statistics to better understand what your students have learned (Assignment Statistics)

The video below will show you a quick example of how to create a quiz in Gradescope.

Students submitting assignments

The instructions laid out in Using Gradescope with Canvas as a Student show you screen captures that students will see once they access your assignment.

Students can also follow instructions detailed in Gradescope's Scanning their Work or Understanding Submission Types.

Grading with Gradescope

Grading in Gradescope utilizes a rubric that the instructors create as they are working through the assignment/exam. If you drastically change the parameters of how something is graded, past problems that you had already graded will reappear for you to update.  The video below will show you what grading a simple question looks like in Gradescope.

Additional Questions/Help

For any questions concerning Gradescope, please reach out to online-learning-help@sas.upenn.edu 

You may also reach out to help@gradescope.com for support from the vendor directly.