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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. to Crowdmark to distribute assessments to students. 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. Crowdmark has an excellent Getting Started Guide. Brock instructors can follow to get instructors started.

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Distribute to students

In Recommended steps:

  1. Let your students know you are using Crowdmark

  2. Import your published Brightspace course

  3. Sync your students

  • Create your first practice assessment

    1. Setting up & Distributing Assessments

    2. Grading on Crowdmark

    Inform students that Crowdmark is a Required Assessment Tool

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    titleConsidering or decided to use Crowdmark for course assessments? Please review the requirements for the syllabus

    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.

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    Syncing Brightspace Classlist to Crowdmark

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    The student enrollment in Crowdmark is only updated through Instructor actions, the Sync with Brightspace button on home screen during start up and is accessible through the

    Co-Instructors, TAs, Marker & Graders need to be added to the Team as an Instructor or Grader by an Instructor. These roles are not synced from Brightspace.

    Links to Crowdmark Instructions are below:

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    Teaching Team Members

    • Instructors can add themselves as a student to help in understanding the current site configuration.

      • 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.

    Create a Practice Assessement

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    • Instructors can add themselves as a student to help in understanding the current site configuration.

      • 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.

    Advanced Features and Functions

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    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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    Create and Distribute Assessments

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    titlePlease note that students will not see the course in Crowdmark until an assessment has been distributed.

    Crowdmark assessments, are easy to create and distribute. Please see the following articles for detailed steps on each procedure.

    Delivery Methods

    Advanced features

    Reuse assessments

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    Grade Assessments on Crowdmark

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    On Crowdmark grading is a straightforward process, with optional advanced features to complete. Instructors can assign graders specific questions, or can assign specific groups of students to grade. Depending on what works best for the grading team, the course configuration, and the assessment content, instructors may prefer one method over the other.

    The Grading interface on Crowdmark is called the “Dashboard”, in which instructors, facilitators and Graders can review all questions and grade student submissions. For information on navigating the grading interface on Crowdmark please review:

    Advanced Grading options

    Releasing Grades on Crowdmark

    Once grades are released students are, by default sent an Email Notification. Students then can access their grades in the “Results” tab.

    Importing Assignment Grades to Brightspace

    1. Crowdmark supports an automatic gradebook syncing from Crowdmark to Brightspace gradebook. Details on how to complete this action can be found at Exporting grades from Crowdmark to Brightspace’s gradebook | Crowdmark.

    2. Or to import directly to the Faculty Gradebook, a manual CSV file export required. This option can be adopted however it is advised that faculty and teaching staff contact CPI for assistance to complete this action. Contact the CPI for a consultation at edtech@brocku.ca

    Crowdmark Resources for Instructors

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