Crowdmark Instructor Guide

Request and access a Crowdmark course

1. To use Crowdmark, you will first need to request a course from us in the LT Hub.
   • Please note that funding will need to be approved by your faculty or department. If you can include the name of a financial contact with your request, it will expedite the process.
2. Once we have created a Crowdmark course for you, you will receive a Crowdmark email invitation from no-reply@crowdmark.com. Click Go To Crowdmark in the email or paste the provided link in your browser.
3. Log in to Crowdmark using your UBC CWL (Campus-Wide Login), if prompted.
4. You may be asked to authorize Crowdmark's access to your Canvas account. Click Authorize.
5. Provide an email address and click Continue. You may also be asked to verify your email address.
6. Your Crowdmark course homepage will open and you can begin creating assessments.

Create an assessment or assignment in your Crowdmark course

All work collected in Crowdmark is called an assessment, whether you want to collect an assignment or an actual assessment (e.g., an exam). Crowdmark supports collecting two types of assessments: Assigned (online from start to finish) and Administered (paper-based that is scanned and uploaded into Crowdmark after students complete it).

With assigned assessments, you will create an assessment and add questions to it using the Crowdmark interface. With administered assessments, you will upload a PDF of your paper-based assessment before you print it. This process allows Crowdmark to add a code on each page that will be used when the finished exams are later scanned.

Grade student work in your Crowdmark course

Once available, student submissions will be organized by question in Crowdmark. You can divide up work between a team of graders to grade one specific question or student at a time. Note that for assigned assessments, you will not be able to grade submissions until the due date has passed. For administered assessments, you can grade at any time.

1. Access Crowdmark, select Sign in with Canvas, and log in using your UBC CWL.
2. Under "Courses", you will find all your Crowdmark courses. Click the course to open it.
3. Click the name of the assignment or assessment you would like to grade. You will see the grading options, provided that the assessment either is paper-based or is online and you have already distributed it.
4. Click a question to start grading it. You will see the first student’s submission or, if grading has already been started by another grader, you’ll be taken to the first student submission that has not yet been graded.
5. The grading screen shows the current student’s pages arranged vertically. You can scroll to see all of the student’s responses. On the right is the grading sidebar, where you can see the booklet number and question you are currently grading. Enter the points for the student's submission and click OK to save the points you've entered.
6. You can use any of the tools in the grading toolbar on the left side to mark the student's work:
   • Comments tool (comment icon) - lets you click the student's work and leave written feedback. You can also build and use a comment library, which allows you and your teaching team to save time by reusing common comments.
   • Freeform annotations tool (pencil icon) - lets you draw directly on the student's work with your mouse.
   • Stamp menu tool (checkmark icon) - lets you add a checkmark, X, or question mark stamp on the student's work.
   • Rectangle tool (rectangle icon) - lets you create a semi-transparent box to highlight portions of a student's work.
   • Delete tool (trash icon) - lets you delete feedback you've added, except for comments, which must be deleted by clicking in the comment box.
   • Colour menu tool (colour drop icon) - lets you add colours to annotations, stamps, and highlight boxes.
7. When you are done grading the submission, click Next ungraded at the bottom of the grading sidebar. Clicking will take you to the next student submission that has not been graded for this question. Crowdmark will alert you when there are no more submissions to grade.

Review and release Crowdmark grades to students

After grading is complete, you can review and return the graded submissions to students. To return grades for paper-based assessments, you will also need to make sure you assign identities to each student's work using the "match booklets" feature of Crowdmark.

1. Access Crowdmark, select Sign in with Canvas, and log in using your UBC CWL.
2. Under "Courses", you will find all your Crowdmark courses. Click the course to open it.
3. Click the name of the assignment or assessment you would like to review.
4. Click Students in the left sidebar. You will see a list of students, with student grades listed in the right-most column.
   • To view an individual student's score, locate the student, and then under the "View" column, click Score. A pop-up with the student’s scores and feedback will appear on the page.
5. To view an individual student's score, locate the student, then under the "View" column, click Score. A pop-up with the student’s scores and feedback will appear on the page.
6. For paper-based assessments, you will need to identify booklets:
   • Click the assessment name in the left sidebar to go back to the overview page.
   • Click Match booklets from the options on the right side.
   • Locate the student’s information on the cover page you see, and begin typing it in the search field on the right side. The list of students will be filtered as you type in identifiers. Once you’ve found the student, click their email address to match them.
   • Repeat this process on the next unmatched cover, until all the cover pages are matched to a student.
7. Once you are ready to release grades to students, click Results in the left sidebar.
8. Under "Grades", click Send grades to students. Note that for paper-based assessments this option will only appear after you've matched booklets.
9. Crowdmark will send an email to each student containing a link to their score page, which includes their work, scores, feedback, and any other information you’ve chosen to include.

Send Crowdmark grades to your Canvas course

Canvas and Crowdmark cannot share grades automatically. But you can send grades to Canvas manually from any Crowdmark assessment with the click of a button.

1. Access Crowdmark, select Sign in with Canvas, and log in using your UBC CWL.
2. Under "Courses", you will find all your Crowdmark courses. Click the course to open it.
3. Click the name of the assignment or assessment you would like to export grades from.
4. Click Results in the left sidebar.
5. Under "Grades", click Export grades to Canvas.
6. If there are any issues with the export, you will see a summary of issues before you export grades. To continue, click Export grades. Your assessment grades will be posted to Canvas as a new assignment column in your Canvas Gradebook.
7. Log in to your Canvas course, and click Grades in the Course Navigation to confirm your grades from Crowdmark.