Crowdmark
Crowdmark is an online collaborative grading and analytics platform that supports individual or team evaluation of student work.
- Integrated with D2L Brightspace
- Ease of collaboration; comments and results are visible among graders.
- Online grading of handwritten assessments easily distributes completed work to the intended grading team.
- Efficiency gains in grading, data recording, and analysis.
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
Administered assessments: Upload existing test booklets to automatically assign them QR codes, allowing for easy printing, scanning, and uploading of assignments to Crowdmark’s online collaborative marking system.
Recommended use: In-person assessments (exams, midterms, etc.).
Assigned assessments: Distribute and grade online assessments in Crowdmark.
Recommended use: Only for online assessments that are not compatible with Brightspace Quizzes or Brightspace Assignments. Please consult courses@torontomu.ca prior to use.
Crowdmark’s collaborative grading tool allows multiple members of your teaching team to mark students' work simultaneously, while keeping the student's identity anonymous during the grading process. Crowdmark enables you to directly upload your grades to D2L Brightspace.
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.