Crowdmark
Crowdmark is a collaborative online grading and analytics platform that makes grading quick and efficient.
Crowdmark allows a team of graders to create paper or remote assessments, simultaneously grade assessments online, and share feedback with students in a completely digital format. Grading of paper-based assessments can also be translated into online grading through bulk scanning and a clever identification system.
How does Crowdmark Work?
Crowdmark is an online system for the distribution, collection, grading and return of paper assignments and tests. A typical Crowdmark process looks like this: first, compose an assessment and upload it onto Crowdmark. Then download the PDF template with unique QR codes and print the exams to distribute to students. Scan the completed exams, upload a class list matching the exams to the correct student and invite your TAs to join the assessment and grade. Finally, send the exams back to students instantly and review the data visually in Crowdmark. This web application turns manual marking of paper assessments into efficient, digitized grading through bulk scanning and a clever identification data system. It works best for paper-based tests and exams with short answers, drawing, and math questions. With recent updates, Crowdmark now also supports inline text responses from students and multiple-choice questions. Crowdmark is free for courses until the end of term 2021W2 (April 2022). If you require access after this period, please contact Arts ISIT by sending an email to arts.helpdesk@ubc.ca. Find out more at Crowdmark or simply read on.
Create an exam and enroll students into the course.
Download and print exams with QR codes and distribute to students.
Scan and upload completed exams.
Return exams and grades to students instantly!
How can Crowdmark help me?
- Save Time: Research has shown that Crowdmark cuts exam grading time by 75%. Save time by digitally returning assessments to students instantly with the click of a button.
- Increase efficiency through collaborative grading on Crowdmark. Grade assessments with TAs online, saving time from manually circulating papers and scheduling meetings.
- Designed with the User in Mind: The Crowdmark tool was built by instructors, for instructors, with efficient solutions to their paper grading challenges in mind.
- Improved Student Outcomes: Crowdmark provides data visualization for each question, allowing instructors to easily analyze gaps in learning and improve student learning outcomes.
Key Features
- Digital Grading: Grade anywhere, anytime on a mobile-friendly app or on your laptop. Annotations, comments and points in Crowdmark allow rich, diverse and efficient feedback.
- Two options for assessments for online or in-class assessments: Administered and Assigned. Administered assessments are downloaded and printed by the instructor while Assigned assessments are downloaded and printed by the student.
- Invite markers with a click of a button. Assign assessments to TAs to more efficiently manage the grading workload. Crowdmark also allows you to easily review other graders work online.
- Set due dates and customized percentage deductions for late assessments.
- A redesigned grading interface that will include grading statistics and a progress indicator.
- Can add points to comments, allowing easier, faster calculation of score totals.
- Option of multiple choice questions on exams that ca be automatically graded with Crowdmark’s Optical Marks Recognition (OMR) system.
Tips
- Autofill feature/ comments library: Reuse comments from multiple student assessments to save marking time.
- Grade from your mobile device with the mobile Crowdmark Application.
- Any scanning errors can be fixed within Crowdmark by entering the unique code printed on the exam.
Getting Started
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Drop by the Arts Learning Centre for a chat in Buchanan C105A |
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Contact ArtsISIT arts.helpdesk@ubc.ca for assistance or a demonstration! |
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