Crowdmark
About Crowdmark
Crowdmark is an online platform that helps instructors manage and grade both digital and paper assignments and tests quickly and efficiently. Crowdmark works especially well with large classes or classes with distributed grading (marking assistants or multiple instructors).
Assessing and Grading
The benefits of using Crowdmark include:
- Grades are automatically totaled and combined with analytics
- Comment library supports Markdown and LaTeX
- Marking quality and consistency is easier to monitor.
- Markers within the grading team can each be assigned specific questions and this grading can all occur simultaneously without the need to exchange paper based assessments.
- Multiple choice questions are auto graded.
- Up to 200 bubble-sheet questions
Key characteristics of Crowdmark
Assessments and exams that are created in Crowdmark can be delivered in person or remotely online . In person exams are scanned and uploaded into the platform. Remote and online assessments are uploaded by the students. Both are then graded in a similar way.
To watch a demo on Crowdmark, click HERE.
Getting Started with Crowdmark
How to Pair your Brightspace Course with Crowdmark
- Go to your course page on Brightspace.
- Go to Content. Follow the following steps based on the Content version you are using:
- New Content experience:
- Click into a Module (or create a new one)
- Click Existing Activity
- Select External Learning Tools
- Select Crowdmark LTI 1.3
- A link will be added to your Content page.
- Legacy (original) Content experience:
- Click into a Module (or create a new one)
- Click on Add Exiting
- Click on External Tool Activity
- Select Crowdmark LTI 1.3
- A link will be added to your Content page.
- Click on the link that was added to Content. This will redirect you to Crowdmark where you should be brought right into your new course page. From here you can enrol students and create assessments. You Crowdmark experience should be mostly the same as before!
Notes:
If you don’t want students to access the link that is on the Content page, you can 'hide it from users'.
If this is your first time using Crowdmark, you will need to create an account with Crowdmark.
Enrolling Students into your Crowdmark course
- In your Crowdmark course, click on Enroll students from Brightspace - LTI3.
- Crowdmark will sync with the Brightspace course and access some of your students' details. You will be asked to confirm the students Name, Email, student ID#. The student role does not need to be mapped so select Nothing (ignore) for that data. Once you have confirmed the different categories click Continue.
- Review your classlist and click Complete Import.
- Students are now enrolled on Crowdmark
Links to Crowdmark Help pages
- Getting Started with Crowdmark : Crowdmark webpage with links to information about setting up your course, setting up assesments and FAQs
- Choosing an assessment type
- Creating Asssessments
- Creating a Crowdmark booklet template
- Crowdmark Help
Using Crowdmark for Multiple Choice / Bubblesheet Exams
To learn more about using Crowdmark for multiple choice exams and for step-by-step instructions, please refer to this documentation or visit the Crowdmark Module in the Brightspace Beyond Basics course located in Brightspace.
