Crowdmark

Crowdmark is a platform for grading handwritten student submission. These can be either regular assignments or exams. Crowdmark is especially well suited to distributed marking in teams.

Creating a course on CrowdMark

To create a Crowdmark class from Learn, you must sign into Crowdmark with your Learn credentials by selecting University of Waterloo from Crowdmark's institutional sign-in page.

Then, you can import a course from "My Courses", and select the appropriate Learn course.

For more information, read about how Crowdmark works with Brightspace (Learn).

Syncing class roster

Go to Students, then Sync with LMS.

You should verify the data entry fields Crowdmark is using matches the ones from Learn, then continue on to update your student list to match the student list in your Learn course.

For more information, read about importing students from Learn.

Creating an assignment

To create an assessment, you can use the "Create Assessment" button from your course page.

For more information, read about creating an assessment.

You can create two different types of assessments, assigned and administered.

Assigned assessments are used for homework or assignments, where students upload answers themselves.

Administered assessments are used for paper exams or tests, where instructors would upload the scans.

For more information, read about choosing an assessment type.

Setting due dates and late submission penalties

"During the assessment setup, you’ll be prompted to enter a due date and (optionally) a penalty for late submissions."

https://crowdmark.com/help/how-are-due-dates-and-penalties-enforced/

Waiving submission penalties for individuals

Go to the Students tab for the assessment.

Find the student using the search bar and click on the link beside their email under the Submitted at column.

A window should show student submissions. Scroll down to the submission settings.

You can customize the penalty, which is given regardless of how late the assignment is handed in.

Click anywhere in the window or hit enter to save the customized penalty for this student. You will see a gear icon in the Submitted at column for this student if the adjustment is successful.

You can read this here.

Distributing assignments to students

Have the student read about how to fix student UWaterloo email. Once their UWaterloo email is working again the course instructor will have to resend the Crowdmark online assignment URL to the student.

Also, the following Crowdmark pages may be of use:

Distributing an Assignment At a Scheduled Time

What Will Students See After I Distribute the Assessment

Creating a comment library and sharing it with others

1. Press the book icon in the grading toolbar

2. Add or edit comments using the "Add comment" and pencil icon, respectively

3. Save

Of note:

You can drag to change the order of the comments

You can assign point values to the comments, which can be dragged onto student work to add that number of points to their mark.

Importing and exporting comment libraries can be handled from the Dashboard's Administration panel. Read more at the link below for specific details.

Read more:

How to add comments to student work

How to create and edit comments in the comment library

How to use a rubric (comments with point values)

How to import and export a comment library

Grading

You must have a Crowdmark account to grade assignments.

"Click into a question to begin grading. Once you’re on the grading screen, you’ll see toolbars on the left and right hand sides of your screen. On the left hand side, you’ll see your grading tools."

You can leave comments, input points, and scroll through different questions to grade.

You can read more about how to begin grading the assessment, or also general navigation, and to read more about the specific tools you can use and what they do, click here.

Grading using a rubric

Grading using a rubric can be as simple as dragging and dropping comment with point values onto student work, which will add the point value of the comment to the students points.

To read more, click here.

Grading a subset of questions

You have the option of grading student work by question.

If you wish to review the grading done by graders, you can filter the graded questions as follows:

"While grading, click Filter evaluations in the top right corner.

Click on a tag, enter a score, or click a grader to select filter(s).

Click Apply filters."

This way, you can see who marked what and a host of other information depending on tags the graders applied, which you can learn about here.

To learn about filtering evaluations, click here.

Adding/removing students

You can add students manually and individually by following these instructions.

If enrolling en masse from Learn, then follow these instructions.

Handling inquiries from students not receiving CrowdMark emails

https://crowdmark.com/help/resending-assessment-submission-emails-to-students/

Viewing student submissions

https://crowdmark.com/help/verifying-a-students-submission-attempt/

Adding graders

https://crowdmark.com/help/managing-team-members-in-a-course/

Posting grading results to students

https://crowdmark.com/help/sending-a-message-to-students-after-grading/

https://crowdmark.com/help/returning-graded-assessments/

https://crowdmark.com/help/exporting-a-list-of-assessment-grades/

Pushing grades to Learn

N.B. : LEARN is D2L software, and D2L is a product of Brightspace.

You must initially import students from D2L/Learn to the Crowdmark class.

https://crowdmark.com/help/how-does-crowdmark-work-with-brightspace/

After you have done that, you can visit Results > Export grades to Brightspace (under Send and export grades) in order to send the grades to Learn.

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