Crowdmark is a platform that facilitates online collaborative grading and provides feedback to students. It offers two types of assessments: Administered and Assigned. Administered Assessments are printed and distributed to students. Once completed, the assessments are scanned and uploaded for online grading. Assigned Assessments are emailed to students to complete and then uploaded by the student for online grading.
UBC offers support for Crowdmark, however funding for the service is granted on a per-department basis. Instructors wishing to use Crowdmark should first check with their respective departments to determine if funding is available. Once they have received this confirmation, instructors can submit a request to set up their assessment(s) before getting started.
To get started with setting up your Crowdmark course, please fill in the LT Hub Contact Form.
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Select Crowdmark under “Support Requested”, select Yes under “New Crowdmark Course”, and include the name and email of your department’s financial contact under “Crowdmark Finance Contact”.
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Under the “How can we help you?” section, include:
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Course name(s)
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Course number(s)
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Section number(s)
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Which term(s) the course(s) is being offered
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The name and email address of the financial contact who approved the request for Crowdmark funding
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You will be notified via email once setup is complete for your course(s). Information on how to access, set up, print, and grade your assessment(s) can be found in the Crowdmark Help Center.
Crowdmark allows you to create two different types of assessments – Assigned and Administered. An Assigned Assessment is a fully online assignment whereas an Administered Assessment is a paper-based assignment that can be graded using Crowdmark.
Assigned Assessment
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Go to app.crowdmark.com/sign-in/ubc, select Sign in with Canvas, and log in using your CWL.
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Open your course, click Create assessment, then select New assessment.
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Set up your assessment by entering a name for it, selecting the students who it will be assigned to, and selecting the instructors/TAs who will have access to it. If your course has multiple sections, remember to assign it to the desired ones.
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Click Save.
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Select Assigned (Remote) as the assessment type and then click on Next.
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Enter the assessment due date and late penalty if desired.
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You can also make this a Timed assessment to set a window of time for students to complete the work, or a Group assessment to enable group submissions.
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Click Next.
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Create and add questions to the assessment.
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Click Preview Assessment to see a student’s view of the assessment.
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Once you are done, click on Save and go to Dashboard!.
Administered Assessment
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Go to app.crowdmark.com/sign-in/ubc, select Sign in with Canvas, and log in using your CWL.
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Open your course, click Create assessment, then select New assessment.
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Set up your assessment by entering a name for it, selecting the students who it will be assigned to, and selecting the instructors/TAs who will have access to it. If your course has multiple sections, remember to assign it to the desired ones.
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Click Save.
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Select Administered as the assessment type and then click on Next.
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You will need to create an assessment template that Crowdmark will use to build paper copies and a grading outline.
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If you prefer, enable double-sided printing, add a cover page that students will use to identify themselves (for automated matching), or include a 100-question bubble sheet for auto-grading multiple-choice questions.
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Upload your PDF assessment template. Download an example template from Crowdmark if you would like help with the formatting.
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Review the images generated with the QR code to preview your assessment. Click Next or Try Again to upload a different file.
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To grade the assessment, Crowdmark will ask you to define each question’s location, label, and points. You can add more questions to the page by selecting Add question.
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Click Save and Continue.
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Enter the number of paper copies you would like Crowdmark to create and then click on Generate PDF.
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Once you are done click on Finished! Go to Dashboard.
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Go to app.crowdmark.com/sign-in/ubc, select Sign in with Canvas, and log in using your CWL.
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Open your course and click on the assessment you would like to grade.
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Click on a question to begin grading. If another instructor or TA has started grading, you will be taken to the next student who has yet to be graded.
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Enter points for the student’s submission and click OK to save.
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You can also use the tools in the grading toolbar to mark student work.
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Once you finish grading the assessment, click on Next Ungraded at the bottom of the page to go to the next student submission that has not been graded for this question.
- Go to app.crowdmark.com/sign-in/ubc, select Sign in with Canvas, and log in using your CWL.
- Open your course and click on the assessment you would like to review.
- Click on the Students tab from the options on the left. You will see a list of students with their grades in the right-most column.
- To view an individual student’s grades, locate their name, then click on Score under the "View" column.
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For paper-based assessments, you will need to identify booklets:
- Click the assessment name in the left sidebar, then click Match booklets from the options on the right.
- Locate the student’s information on the cover page and begin typing it in the search field on the right side. Once the correct student has been identified, click on their email address to match them.
- Repeat this process on the next unmatched cover, until all the cover pages are matched to a student.
- Click on Results when you are ready to release grades.
- Under "Send and export grades", click Send grades to students.
- Go to app.crowdmark.com/sign-in/ubc, select Sign in with Canvas, and log in using your CWL.
- Open your course and click on the assessment you would like to export grades from.
- Click on Results in the left sidebar.
- Under "Send and export grades", click Export grades to Canvas.
- If there are any issues with exporting, you will see a summary of the issues pop-up. To continue, and click on Export Grades. The assessment grades will be posted to Canvas as a new assignment column in your Canvas Gradebook.
