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Crowdmark is an online tool integrated into Brock’s Brightspace for the Faculty of Math and Science to facilitate administering, collecting, and grading handwritten assessments.

Instructors can link an existing Brightspace course site 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 to get instructors started as a first stop for instructors, below you will find more details on the Brock and Brightspace context.

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In Recommended steps:

  1. Let your students know you are using Crowdmark

  2. Import Add the Crowdmark integration to your published Brightspace coursesite

  3. Sync your students

  4. Setting up & Distributing Assessments

  5. Grading Set up and distribute assessments

  6. Grade 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 sign in with your School BrockU account.

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

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The student enrollment to the Crowdmark platform is only updated through Instructor actions. Select Sync with Brightspace the Enroll students from Brightspace LTI 1.3 button on the home screen during start up. Or select Course Students to update the classlist. Instructions on this procedure is listed belowset up.

Please note that Co-Instructors, TAs, Marker & Graders need to be added to the Team as an Instructor or Grader by an exisiting 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.

    • If you have Having two roles in a site allows you can toggle from being part of the Instruction Team or a Student in the option menu in to toggle between Instructor or Student views in the Crowdmark site. Select the chevron beside your user name username in at the top right to switch between views.

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.Get started with an assessment in Crowdmark

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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Advanced features

Reuse assessments

Distribute Assessments
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Please note that once an assessment is distributed to the class, assessment settings and questions cannot be edited. Before distributing be sure your classlist is up to date, and assessment configurations are as they should be.

Grade Assessments on Crowdmark

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titleSteps for grading assessments on Crowdmark

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 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 Notificationemail 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 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. Contact the CPI for a consultation at edtech@brocku. ca

Crowdmark Resources for Instructors

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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