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 rich 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
About
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.
Getting Started
To get started, check out our Crowdmark guide for instructors.
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.
Tool |
Crowdmark Paper Assessment | Scantron | |
|---|---|---|---|
Recommended Use |
On-paper and hybrid bubble sheet assessments |
Multiple question type assessments, including multiple choice questions | No longer available; previously used for bubble sheet assessments |
Printing Sheets |
Regular A4 letter size sheets |
Regular A4 letter size sheets | Proprietary Scantron sheets |
Printing and Scanning |
Any consumer printer/scanner; can be done by Bond Street Printshop or independently |
Any consumer printer/scanner; can be done by RICOH or independently |
|
Pre-filled student information on sheets |
✓ |
No | ✓ |
Question types |
Multiple Choice and Multi-Answer, T/F Max. of 50 or 150 questions Answer options: A-E or A-J |
Multiple Choice, Handwritten Response Max. of 100 or 200 MC questions Answer options: A-E |
Multiple Choice, T/F; no multi-answer Max. of 215 questions Answer options: A-E |
Results |
Available online in the Akindi Dashboard, including the scanned bubblesheets |
Available online in Crowdmark, including the scanned response sheets | .CSV file emailed to you |
Advanced marking |
Partial marks Varied point values Exact selection only Multiple answer selection Either/or (multiple correct choices) |
Auto-marking for bubble sheet responses, including: Select one correct answer Select all correct answers |
No |
Answer Key Creation |
Uploaded from .docx file Manual selection (online) Upload completed bubble sheet Copy/paste |
Manual selection (online) | Use a bubblesheet and fill in the answer key. Put this at the top of the other bubblesheets for scanning. |
Can edit answer key after completion |
Yes; automatically re-grades all students |
Yes; automatically re-grades all responses | No |
Auto-export scores to Brightspace Grades |
✓ |
✓ | No (manual CSV file upload to D2L Grades) |
Automated response analysis |
✓ |
✓ | Excel files emailed to instructor |
Multiple versions of assessment |
✓ |
No | No |
Program |
Akindi Online Assessment | Crowdmark Online Assessments | |
|---|---|---|---|
Recommended Use |
Quizzes with pooled or varied question types |
Multiple choice quizzes with a fixed end time; hybrid quizzes | Remote open book assessments, with multiple question types |
Question types |
Variety, including Multiple Choice, Written Response. Learn more about Brightspace Quiz Questions. |
Multiple Choice, Multi-Answer | Variety, including Multiple Choice, File Upload, Written Response. |
Hard deadline for submissions |
✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Accommodations can be individually set |
✓ |
✓ | ✓ |
Easily import questions from .docx or PDF file |
No |
✓ | No, but documents can be distributed as questions |
One-step fix of incorrect questions |
No |
✓ | ✓ |
Automated response analysis |
No |
✓ | ✓ |
Automated Virtual Proctoring Available |
✓ |
No | No |
Randomly selected questions from pools |
✓ |
No | ✓ |
Shuffle questions |
Within sections or across entire quiz |
Across entire quiz | Within randomized pools |
Prevent backtracking |
Can be set for one question or any page break |
One question at a time | No |
Multiple versions of quiz |
Assigned based on group or section enrollment |
Randomly assigned | Manually assigned |
Support
For more information on using Crowdmark please visit the Crowdmark Help Center (external link) or email support@crowdmark.com.
If you require assistance with Crowdmark's integration with D2L Brightspace, email us at courses@torontomu.ca, call 416-979-5000 ext. 556806 or visit our contact page.