Table of Contents

• What is Gradescope?
• Using Gradescope Integrated in Brightspace
  • For Instructors: Get Started with Gradescope
  • Gradescope for Remote Assessment
  • Getting Help with Gradescope

What is Gradescope?

Gradescope is a feedback and assessment tool that dramatically reduces the pain and time associated with grading exams, homework, and other assignments. Gradescope is widely used for delivering assessments remotely. It enables instructors and graders to give better and more timely feedback, resulting in improved learning outcomes. Dynamic rubrics help streamline the tedious parts of grading while increasing grading consistency. AI-assisted Grading allows instructors to automatically group similar answers and grade all the answers in each group at once. Gradescope also helps with grading programming assignments at scale and can automatically grade printed bubble sheets. 

A few highlights include:

• More quality and timely feedback, resulting in improved learning outcomes
• Dynamic rubrics that help streamline the tedious parts of grading while increasing grading consistency and decreasing bias
• Various assignment types ranging from fully online with many question types to handwritten, or a combination of the two
• AI-assisted grading which allows instructors to automatically group similar answers and grade all the answers in each group at once

Using Gradescope Integrated in Brightspace:

Gradescope is found under the "Course Tools" menu within a course in Brightspace. 

For Instructors: Get Started with Gradescope

Step 1: Access Gradescope from Brightspace

1. Enter your course. 
2. Click on Course Tools in the course navigation.
3. Click on “Gradescope”

Step 2: Create your Gradescope course

• Your course is automatically already set up on Gradescope.
• Creating, editing, and deleting a course

Step 3: Create an assignment

• Exams & Quizzes: documentation and a short video
• Homework & Problem Set: documentation and a short video
• Online Assignment: documentation and a short video
• Programming Assignment: documentation and a short video
• Bubble Sheets: documentation and a short video

Step 4: Grade your assignment

• Grading a simple question
• Grading even faster with keyboard shortcuts
• Advanced grading options
• Annotation and advanced navigation
• AI-assisted grading

Step 5: Return work to students

• Review and publish grades
• View assignment statistics
• Manage regrade requests

Gradescope for Remote Assessment

• How do I get started moving my assessments online?
• How do I set up a paper-based assignment for remote assessment?
• What Gradescope workflow will let my students handwrite or draw answers?
• What are my options if students don’t have access to a printer?
• How should students convert their paper-based or handwritten work into high-quality PDFs?
• What Gradescope workflow will let my students type in answers online?
• Is there a way to set up a timed assignment on Gradescope?

Getting Help with Gradescope

• For commonly asked questions, see our FAQ Page.
• Register for a weekly Gradescope Workshop hosted every Thursday @ 12pm ET
• Here is a recording of a Gradescope demo with chapters for easy navigation.

You can email help@gradescope.com with any questions you have.