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Crowdmark is a an online tool that has been integrated into Brock’s Brightspace to add a digital workflow to hand-written assignmentsfor the Faculty of Math and Science 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 to Crowdmark site to create assignments that require scientific, mathematical or musical notation in the response, or provide an artifact to be labelled. 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 as a first stop for instructors, below you will find more details on the Brock and Brightspace context.

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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:

  • Create your Crowdmark account that is linked to Brock University's Sakai system

    • Recommended steps:

    1. Let your students know you are using Crowdmark

  • Import your published Sakai course

  • Sync your students

  • Create your first practice assessment

  • Distribute to students

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    Things to Consider

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

    • 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.

    • The student enrollment in Crowdmark is only updated through Instructor actions: The Sync with Sakai process or manually enrolling or disenrolling students.

    • 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 Sakai.

    Adding Participants to Crowdmark Site

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    Resources Crowdmark for Instructors

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    For more support on Crowdmark please visit:

  • Crowdmark’s General Help Page

    • For Crowdmark hosted training sessions please review their schedule here to sign up: 2023 Training Webinars With Jessie and Martin | Crowdmark
    (TIP: Instructors from Brock should sign up for Existing User sessions, even if they have not previously used Crowdmark).

    1. Add the Crowdmark integration to your Brightspace site

    2. Sync your students

    3. Set up and distribute assessments

    4. Grade on Crowdmark

    Inform students that Crowdmark is a Required

    Assesment

    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 sign in with your School BrockU account.

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

    Syncing Brightspace Classlist to Crowdmark

    After adding the Crowdmark integration to your Brightspace course site (Content > Add Existing > External Tool Activity > Crowdmark), you can sync your roster to ensure the students are appearing in the

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    The student enrollment to the Crowdmark platform is only updated through Instructor actions. Select the Enroll students from Brightspace LTI 1.3 button on the home screen during set up.

    Please note that Co-Instructors, TAs, Marker & Graders need to be added to the Team as an Instructor or Grader by an existing instructor. These role types are not synced from Brightspace, so the procedure requires manual addition of faculty or staff email addresses.

    Links to Crowdmark Instructions are below:

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    Adding the Student View

    • Instructors can add themselves as a student to review assessments and feedback from the student perspective.

      • Having two roles in a site allows you to toggle between Instructor or Student views in the Crowdmark site. Select the chevron beside your username in the top right to switch between views.

    Create and Distribute Assessments

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

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

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    Delivery Methods

    Advanced features

    Reuse assessments

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    Please note that once an assessment is distributed to the class, assessment settings and questions cannot be edited.

    Grade Assessments on Crowdmark

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    titleSteps for grading assessments on Crowdmark

    On Crowdmark grading is a straightforward process. 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. After the due date the grading team can begin assessing 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 can access their grades in the “Results” tab.

    Importing Assignment Grades to Brightspace

    1. Crowdmark supports an automatic gradebook syncing from Crowdmark to Brightspace. 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 is required. This option can be adopted, however it is advised that faculty and teaching staff contact CPI (cpi@brocku.ca) for assistance to complete this action.

    Need more information on Crowdmark?

    Visit our Crowdmark Homepage which also lists additional resources for instructors under Crowdmark Help Resources near the bottom. Still have questions? Reach out to cpi@brocku.ca