Crowdmark Quick Start Guide For Instructors

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.

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

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

• Importing students from Brightspace | Crowdmark

• Managing students in a course | Crowdmark

• Adding team members from Brightspace | Crowdmark

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

Delivery Methods

• Creating an Assigned Assessment | Crowdmark

• Creating an Administered Assessment | Crowdmark

• Creating a timed assessment | Crowdmark

• Using multiple choice questions in an Administered assessment | Crowdmark

Advanced features

• The assessment settings page | Crowdmark

• Using a rubric | Crowdmark

• Hybrid assessment: using Assigned assessments in class | Crowdmark

• Locking an assessment | Crowdmark

Reuse assessments

• Duplicating Assigned assessments for sections or multiple versions | Crowdmark

• Duplicating Administered assessments for sections or multiple versions | 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 can review all questions and grade student submissions. For information on navigating the grading interface on Crowdmark please review:

• Grading navigation | Crowdmark

• Grading Tools | Crowdmark

Advanced Grading options

• Double-blind grading using Crowdmark | Crowdmark

• Using a rubric | Crowdmark

• Importing and exporting the comment library | Crowdmark

• Downloading student work and results | Crowdmark

• Verifying a student’s submission attempt | Crowdmark

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.

• Returning graded assessments | Crowdmark

• Sending a message to students after grading

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

• 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).

• Other helpful Documentation

  • How does Crowdmark work with Brightspace? | Crowdmark

  • Accessing Crowdmark through Brightspace | Crowdmark

  • Importing a course from Brightspace | Crowdmark

  • Exporting grades from Crowdmark to Brightspace’s gradebook | Crowdmark