Gradescope
Gradescope is an online grading system that supports collaborative grading within a teaching team. This platform enables the evaluation of both online and paper-based assignments using personalized rubrics. Deliver comprehensive feedback and grades directly to students, ensuring efficient and effective assessment processes. Gradescope allows multiple graders to simultaneously assess assignment submission and prevents conflict issues.
Key Features
- Multiple graders: allows multiple graders to simultaneously assess submissions without overwrite or conflict issues
- Customized rubrics: create customized rubrics for grading. Any rubric changes made to an assignment are automatically applied to assignments already graded
- Various assignment and submission types: collect and grade online assignments (e.g. code-based) and paper-based assignments. Photos of student work can also be submitted to Gradescope as PDF format
- Grade analytics: statistical measures for each assignment question
- Answer groups & AI-assisted grading features: form groups of similar student answers, allowing for quick, efficient grading
Getting Started
Gradescope is supported at UBC but has an associated cost and is granted per-department. The cost is charged per student per course. Instructors wishing to use Gradescope should confirm with their respective departments if funding is available.
After funding is confirmed, please email Science LT at LT.support@science.ubc.ca to request Gradescope to be initialized in your course with the following information:
- Course number and section
- Financial contact (for billing)
Instructions
- Create assessments to collect and grade student work
- Create question-level custom rubrics
- Grade student submissions
- Review and publish grades
- Link Gradescope grades to Canvas
- Note: Gradescope does not send assignment grades to Canvas automatically.
Additional Resources
FAQs
2. From the class roster in my Gradescope course, there are no issues for the Canvas links for students. However, in my assignment, under "Canvas" in the "Review Grades" area, there are broken links for student accounts. What can I do to solve this issue?
Broken links with Canvas look like the following:
To solve this issue, we will need to re-sync the Canvas Roster. As a instructor, you will see the Sync Canvas Roster button in the Roster, but please do not click on because it actually doesn't work for instructors. The reason for this is explained in further detail in the Gradescope Instructor Guide, but essentially, instructors do not have the necessary administrative access to sync student enrolment between Canvas and Gradescope due to privacy concerns.
To re-sync the Canvas Roster in your Gradescope course, please contact us at LT.support@science.ubc.ca. Once this is done, you should no longer see broken links and the links should look like the following:
Additional FAQs
Last updated on: October 4, 2024