Crowdmark
Crowdmark is an online collaborative grading and analytics platform that helps educators, working alone or in teams, to more effectively evaluate student work. The platform 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 feedback to students.
- Integrated with D2L Brightspace
- Online collaborative marking between TAs and instructors
- Easy distribution and collection of student work
- Provides integrated grading tools
Support
- Instructor Guide
- Crowdmark Help Centre (external link)
- Email support@crowdmark.com
- If you require assistance with Crowdmark's integration with D2L Brightspace, email us at courses@torontomu.ca
Features
Crowdmark Administered Assessments allow you to upload existing custom format test booklets and automatically marks them up with QR codes, allowing for easy printing, scanning and uploading to an online collaborative marking system. This allows teaching assistants and instructors to mark assessments simultaneously.
Crowdmark also supports Assigned Assessments, which are written or online assignments that are submitted by students directly to the same online collaborative marking system.
After the booklets are uploaded, Crowdmark offers a set of intuitive grading tools for your teaching team to mark your student's work, and then allows you to directly send those grades to D2L Brightspace. The system keeps the student's identity anonymous during the grading process which enables unbiased grading. Academic integrity of assessments is improved by archiving a digital copy of student work that cannot be altered.
Update your course outline
Several key considerations must be addressed when using educational technology tools in your course. It is your responsibility to ensure that students are fully informed about the tool, its costs, and other details to align with University policy and Provincial acts.
We strongly encourage you to include all of this essential information in your course outline, to ensure students are aware of how it impacts them.
Refer to the TMU course outline template for some ways to incorporate this information into your course outline and to the Senate Course Outline Policies for guidance on what needs to be included in your course outlines.
Sample course outline content
This course utilizes Crowdmark, an external educational technology tool in addition to D2L Brightspace. This tool is used to enhance your course learning experience by enabling collaborative evaluation of student work.
Costs: The tool does not result in additional costs to you.
Other requirements: There are no additional technical requirements for its usage.
Account creation: You are required to create an account for use of this tool.
Data privacy and usage: This tool will have access to your name, TMU email address, and academic work, and it is visible to All course instructors, Academic Assistants, and Graders. This information will be retained within Crowdmark for 2 years, in case of potential appeals or FIPPA requests.
Opt-out options: This tool does not have an opt-out policy.
For technical support regarding Crowdmark, please visit the Crowdmark Student Guide (external link)
Students
Students can access Crowdmark through the link provided by their instructor in the course shell. Resources for student use can be found in Crowdmark’s Help Center (external link) .
Some tutorials that may be helpful for students include:
Additional Information
Not sure if this is the right tool?
Crowdmark's Administered (In-person) assessments support the completion of in-person handwritten exams, including the optional use of bubble sheets.
Crowdmark's Assigned (Online) assessments distribute the assessment to students to complete and submit their work online. Assigned assessments can be used in some cases as an alternative to Brightspace Quizzes, as each tool presents different features.
