What is Gradescope?
Gradescope is a versatile grading tool that can efficiently handle a variety of assignments, including quizzes, exams, and homework that involve handwritten work such as equations, diagrams, or even musical notation. Gradescope uses flexible and robust rubrics and can be used for any modality and assignment type: student-submitted homework, in-person exams, or an alternative to scantron. Through the use of rubrics in Gradescope, instructors and teaching teams report greater consistency in grading.
Gradescope is integrated with Canvas and supports full pass-back of grades to the Canvas Gradebook.
This Gradescope video provides a brief overview in under 2 minutes.
What is Gradescope good for?
- Transparent and consistent grading: All graders use the same rubric, resulting in increased consistency for each problem. Students know exactly where they earn or lost points with applied rubric items.
- Seamless grading for the teaching team: Multiple instructors, TAs, or readers simultaneously with no overlap. Divide grading labor in your teaching team easily and equitably.
- In-depth analytics: provided for the overall assignment and each problem.
Key Resources
- Recorded Webinars (each of these include a basic overview of Gradescope and themed slightly different depending on your intended use):
- Gradescope Overview: an introduction to Gradescope, showcases grading and rubric creation and integration with Canvas
- Handwritten Exams: covers assignment creation, uploading and managing scans, matching names, building rubrics and grading
- Bubble Sheets: covers creating assignment, marking answer key, uploading scans, matching names and grading submissions
- Gradescope Guide: Get Started
- How to link to Gradescope in Canvas
- Gradescope ITS page
Technical Support
Visit our daily office hours or email tlc@ucsc.edu to schedule a consultation.
- UCSC ITS Support: open an ITS Support Ticket, call 459-HELP (4357), or email help@ucsc.edu
- Gradescope Support: email help@gradescope.com (responds within 2 days)