Implementation Support - ELT Canvas@utexas.edu
Technical Support: - help@gradescope.com

We upgraded the Gradescope integration at the end of the summer term.
Please follow these instructions if you are trying to duplicate a past Gradescope course for your Fa25 course:
Canvas LTI 1.3 Migration: Duplicating Courses and Assignments from LTI 1.0 for Instructors

Did you know that Gradescope offers a Scantron-like assessment option? Get additional details here, Bubble Sheet Assignments. Note: Testing & Evaluation Services can help with more complex 10 answer sheets.

Gradescope is a feedback and assessment tool that dramatically reduces the pain and time associated with grading exams, homework, and other paper-based and/or hand-written assignments. Gradescope is widely used to deliver 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.

Check off your Beginning of Semester To-Do list with these Gradescope resources

Getting Started with Gradescope

Enable Gradescope in Canvas

To activate Gradescope in your course, go to [Course] Settings > Navigation tab > locate Gradescope and click the three dots to Enable [1]. Then scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save [2].

Enable Gradescope in course

Note: If you have used Gradescope before, save time by duplicating your courses - Instructors can now save time at the start of a new term by duplicating previous courses instead of re-creating assignments. This makes an identical copy with the same assignments, rubrics, and course settings within Gradescope. Do this before you start down the 'Link to your courses(s)' steps below. When you get to the 'Link with' choice, select 'Existing Gradescope Course' instead of 'New Gradescope Course.' Navigate to the new duplicated course and select "Link Course."

Link to your course(s)

In the left sidebar of your course page, click Gradescope. This will launch Gradescope in Canvas or in a new tab, depending on your settings.

Once Gradescope launches, you'll see a dialog box with course-linking options. Choose to link to a new or existing Gradescope course, and then click Link Course to go to the Course Settings page.

Link to Canvas Course pop-up in Gradescope

New Gradescope users: At this point, a new Gradescope account will be created for you if you do not already have one associated with the email address (e.g., your school email) that you use in Canvas.
Existing Gradescope users: If you already have a Gradescope account under the email address that's associated with your Canvas account (e.g., your school email), a new Gradescope account will not be created for you, and clicking the Gradescope link in Canvas will take you to your existing account.

On the Course Settings page, you can update the course title, description, rubric types, and score bounds. Keep in mind that course title and description changes made here will only appear in Gradescope, not in Canvas.

When you're finished, click Update Course. Your course is now linked and your students can access this Gradescope course. Now, it's recommended that you sync your roster and link your assignment.

What is Gradescope?

Instructors use Gradescope in remote, hybrid, and face-to-face courses. Learn about their experience and how easy it is to get started - even in the middle of the term.

Common Assessment Workflows

Gradescope Assignment Types Overview

Fully-online assessments (no paper)

- If your assessments do not require drawing or handwriting, or you prefer your students work completely digitally, you can use an online assessment:
  - Include a mix of automatically graded and manually graded questions (with the normal Gradescope Rubric).
  - Students submit answers directly through Gradescope’s web interface.
  - Can be time limited, where students have a designated amount of time from the moment of opening the assignment to complete it.
- Learn more about Gradescope's Online Assignments (Beta).

Student-uploaded paper-based assessments

- If handwriting or drawing is important to your assessment, or you want to administer your existing paper-based exam remotely, there are two options:
  - If you can distribute paper copies or your students have printers, you can use a template-based assignment and have your students submit digitized copies.
  - If your students can’t print, you can allow them to upload freeform work on blank paper and simply designate where they responded to each question.
  - Submitting for students is easy. You can share the Submitting an Assignment page, covering various assignment types in Gradescope.
- If you have a bubble-sheet (multiple choice) assessment, you can provide paper bubble sheets that are automatically graded.

Programming Assignments, Writing Formulas and Equations (LaTeX), Formatting Text (Markdown), and more Assignment Workflow information

What's New/What's Next

What's new in 2023:

Annotation tools for Homework and Exam submission - Add text, symbols, and emojis!
Statistics > Filter Statistics by Section; Assigning multiple sections to a student
Improvements to Anonymous Grading
Online Assignments > Exporting assignment submissions
Changing your [personal] account’s language
Gradescope Autograder Documentation
- Gradescope for Programming Assignments | HD (Get an overview of the Gradescope Programming Assignment workflow and get a deep dive into the code autograder set-up.)
- Autograder Output String Formatting
Creating and Grading Multi-Version Assignments

What's Next - Gradescope Roadmap

Gradescope Help Center

FAQs - General, Instructor, and Student

Welcome to the new Gradescope Guides site – Gradescope Guides

For Instructors

Get Started | Gradescope
Using Gradescope with Canvas as an Instructor
Assignment Types
General Gradescope walkthrough video here; YouTube Channel here
A video with scanning tips and best practices
Assigning multiple sections to a student
The Help Center has written documentation, short videos, and frequently asked questions.
- Guide: Writing Formulas and Equations (LaTeX)
- Guide: Formatting Text (Markdown)
- Guide: Importing Rubrics
- Guide: Extending Time Limits
- FAQ: How do I get started moving my assessments online?
What are my Gradescope Demo Courses?
A video regarding the LMS integration (for a little more detail about linking courses and assignments to Canvas)

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For Students

Past Gradescope Webinars

Gradescope - Bubble Sheet Session [UT Austin session]

This workshop will offer guidance on using Gradescope Bubble Sheets as a scantron replacement. We will also cover the instructor workflow of using Gradescope integrated with Canvas.

In this workshop you will learn how to:

digitally create answer key and change at any time as needed
scan student submissions via any scanner on campus
easily edit bubbling mistakes electronically and systematically
provide quick scoring (including partial credit) on multiple choice and multiple select questions
supply rich targeted feedback on multiple choice
return graded work electronically with a few clicks

Session Resources

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