Crowdmark Quick Start Guide

Crowdmark is a tool that has been integrated into Brightspace to add a digital workflow to hand-written assignments.

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.

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
Let your students know you are using Crowdmark
Import your published Sakai course
Sync your students
Create your first practice assessment
Distribute to students

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

Please Note: Instructors will require to update the crowdmark class list and grading team as adds and drops occur

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).

Inform students that Crowdmark is Required Assesment Tool

Considering 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 with your School account.

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

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