Crowdmark is a online tool integrated into Brock’s Brightspace to facilitate administering, collecting and grading handwritten assessments.
Instructors can create a Crowdmark course to house course specific materials, and 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.
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.
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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 to write by hand than to type in a textbox, (i.e. drawing a diagram, or completing an equation). Courses like Math and Science are the target disciplines of this tool. Moreover, Crowdmark considers the usual logistical concerns with grading high and low stake assessments which may rely on grading teams offering a variety of skills and expertise. It aims to make the process of diving 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.
To get a quick sense of what Crowdmark can do and how it works please view this short 2 minute YouTube Crowdmark video.
For more detailed perspectives on how crowdmark might be used here at Brock, please review this 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:
Create your Crowdmark account that is linked to Brock University's Brightspace LMS
Import your published Brightspace course
Sync your students
Create your first practice assessment
Distribute to students
Things to Consider
The student enrollment in Crowdmark is only updated through Instructor actions
Please see Sync with Brightspace process or manually enrolling or disenrolling students in the classlist tool on their website.
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.
Since Co-Instructors, TAs, Marker & Graders are not members of a class roster, course team members need to be added to the Grading Team manually by an Instructor in the Instructor or Grader role.
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).
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