Crowdmark

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.

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). Crowdmark carefully considers logistical concerns of grading assessments that rely on 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.

• To get a quick sense of what Crowdmark can do and how it works please view this short 2 minute YouTube Crowdmark video.

• For a more detailed perspective on how Crowdmark might be used here at Brock, please review CPI’s recording of the Friday, September 4, 2020 introductory workshop.

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 for Instructors

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).

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.