Your Gradescope questions answered: 

How does Gradescope increase grading efficiency and save instructors time?

Gradescope empowers instructors through digitized workflows that reduce repetitive grading tasks and accelerate quality student feedback. Answer grouping lets you form and grade groups of similar answers rather than grading student answers individually. AI-assisted answer grouping can automatically form suggested groups of short-answer and multiple-choice questions for your review, along with automatic grading of bubble sheets once student submissions are uploaded. Keyboard shortcuts help instructors cut grading time even further, while dynamic rubrics make collaborative grading efficient and enable fast correction of grading errors retroactively. Recover valuable time that faculty can channel into teaching and lesson planning.

Does Gradescope support paper-based assessment, including students’ hand-written or drawn answers?

Yes! Gradescope makes it simple for educators to digitize grading for all paper-based assessments and student submissions, including handwritten answers and diagrams. The online grading platform offers easy bulk scanning for instructor-uploaded, paper-based assessments in addition to supporting student uploads of their work. Annotation tools allow for feedback flexibility and depth to aid student understanding. Once submissions have been graded, send grades to students or export them to your own grade book. With Gradescope, you can eliminate paper shuffling and easily capture assessment data for accreditation purposes and continuous improvement.

What is involved in setting up Gradescope, and what is the learning curve?

You’d be surprised by how quickly you can get up and running with Gradescope. Instructors can instantly create a Gradescope account, sync with their LMS, and upload assignments in various formats to grade their way. Access our training resources, including tutorials and live support, to ensure a smooth experience for educators and students. An institutional license unlocks the full power of Gradescope, with flexible integration options to fit different teaching environments. You’ll also gain access to a dedicated team to support a tailored rollout and adoption growth over time, including training for administrators and instructors. Thanks to an intuitive interface and automation in our grading platform, customers report a minimal learning curve.

How does the Gradescope workflow promote equity in student assessment?

The Gradescope grading platform eliminates unintended bias during grading, supporting instructors to improve grading consistency and provide better feedback to all students. In grading by question rather than grading by user, Gradescope hides student names, email addresses, and other identifiers in the grading workflow to prevent unintentional viewing of identifying student information. Harness its time-saving capabilities to combat grading fatigue that can lead to inconsistent grading, and utilise the Dynamic Rubric feature during collaborative grading to create a reliable, real-time standard for all students.

How can Gradescope’s data analytics highlight and drive student learning?

Gradescope gives educators immediate and actionable insight into student progress while surfacing data that can guide long-term curricular improvements. Understand student learning trends with Gradescope’s per-question and per-rubric item analytics to pinpoint which concepts were mastered by individual students and across cohorts and which were misunderstood. Use these insights to inform more targeted feedback and refine instruction and assessment methods to align with key learning objectives. Meanwhile, dashboard access in our grading software enables administrators to track courses and instructors in Gradescope and see up-to-date data on enrollments, courses, submissions, and more.