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Crowdmark is a online tool integrated into Brock’s Brightspace to facilitate administering, collecting, and grading handwritten assessments. Instructors can create and link Crowdmark course to an existing Brightspace course site, Then may use the Crowdmark site to create assignments that require scientific, mathematical or musical notation in the response, or provide an artifact to be labelled. Crowdmark allows for easy distribution and collection of student work, offers tools for the assembly and management of grading teams, and provides an online workflow that streamlines grading and the delivery of rich feedback to students.

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What is Crowdmark?

Crowdmark is an online tool focused on making the grading process more effective and and time efficient. This tool is geared towards administering and grading assessments that are easier for students to write by hand than to type in a textbox, (i.e. drawing a diagram, or completing an equation etc.).

Crowdmark carefully considers logistical concerns of grading assessments that rely on multiple team members offering a variety of skills and expertise. It aims to make the process of divvying up grading work between team members less cumbersome, and offers the best of both worlds for instructors and students to give and receive feedback on handwritten submissions. Courses like Math and Science are disciplines that may benefit immensely from this tool.

Quick Start For Instructors

Crowdmark has an excellent Getting Started Guide. Brock instructors can follow this guide, simply replacing the first "Create a course" step with "Import a Course".

In Summary:

  1. Create your Crowdmark account that is linked to Brock University's Brightspace LMS

  2. Let your students know you are using Crowdmark

  3. Import your published Brightspace course

  4. Sync your students

  5. Create your first practice assessment

  6. Distribute to students

Things to Consider

  • The student enrollment in Crowdmark is only updated through Instructor actions manual addition or by syncing with Brightspace.

    • Please see Update Crowdmark Classlist for details on the Sync with Brightspace process

  • Students will not see the course in Crowdmark until an assessment has been distributed.

  • Instructors can add themselves as a student to better understand the current site configuration settings. If you have two roles in a site you can toggle from being part of the Instruction Team or a Student in the context selector found at the top right near your avatar and name.

  • Co-Instructors, TAs, Marker & Graders must be added to the Grading Team on Crowdmark manually by an Instructor and then assigned as ‘Instructor’ or ‘Grader’.

Crowdmark Resources

Accessing Crowdmark

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Brock University community members can now access Crowdmark at https://app.crowdmark.com/sign-in/brock-university or by visiting the main Crowdmark web page and selecting "Sign In" (top right) and then select "Sign In through your school" "Brock University (bottom), and follow the prompts.

What to Include on the Course Syllabus

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Students must be informed that they will be asked to submit work through Crowdmark in the course Syllabus. It is also recommended that information concerning Crowdmark be listed elsewhere, where relevant in the Brightspace site (i.e. In announcements).

Instructors should include a statement similar to the following, along with their contact information:

  • The Personal Information requested through Crowdmark assignments is collected under the authority of The Brock University Act, 1964, Collection of Personal Information Procedure Page 2 of 2 and in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (“FIPPA”). The information will be used as part of the assessment of this course.

Instructors may also choose to include some practical information similar to the following:

  • You will be asked to submit hand-written work to Crowdmark. Crowdmark allows students to use familiar devices like smartphones to take pictures of written work and submit them digitally. You will receive an E-Mail when the first practice assignment is available with instructions on how to access it. You can also access https://app.crowdmark.com/ at any time and Sigin with your School account.

Please feel free to copy and paste these statements directly into the course syllabus.

Crowdmark Help Resources

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Resources for Instructors

For more support on Crowdmark please visit:

Accessing Crowdmark

Members of the Brock University community can now access Crowdmark at https://app.crowdmark.com/sign-in/brock-university or by visiting the main Crowdmark web page and selecting "Sign In" (top right) and then select "Sign In through your school" "Brock University (bottom), and follow the prompts.

Resources for Students

For more support on Crowdmark please vist:

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