Gradescope FAQs

You can duplicate/copy/reuse a previous course in Gradescope AND then link that new copy in Gradescope to your Bb Learn course section.

See this link on copying your Gradescope course for reuse:

• Duplicating a Course - Gradescope Help Center

Then see next section to link your new copied course.

NOTE: We use LTI 1.3 for the Gradescope LTI in Bb Learn.

We HIGHLY, HIGHLY, HIGHLY, HIGHLY recommend instructors, TA's. and students access Gradescope through a Course Link the instructor can create in their Bb Learn course section. It will help with account creation, and avoid duplicate courses and assignments and even duplicate users. Duplicate user accounts can be merged. More on that below.

We've had instructors just go their own way, and end up with half their assignments in a Gradescope course not connected to Bb Learn and half their assignment in a completely different Gradescope course connected to Bb Learn, and students submitting to both, and not realizing any of this until week 8 of the quarter.

To begin, see the "Linking your Courses" section and video at:

• https://guides.gradescope.com/hc/en-us/articles/23583385497741-Using-Gradescope-LTI-1-3-with-Blackboard-as-an-Instructor

You would make such a link in a "Week" content area or other content area that has the "Build Content" and "Assessment" and "Tools" and "Partner Content" drop-down menus on the page.

Again, everyone should access Gradescope through the Course Link you create in Bb Learn.

For help with creating/linking assignments,see the more general link for "Using Gradescope with Blackboard as an Instructor - Gradescope Help Center" at:

• https://help.gradescope.com/article/0yis65v1vt-blackboard-instructor

Just like with Course Link, everyone should access GradeScope through the Assignment Links you create in Bb Learn.

For syncing your roster, see:

• https://help.gradescope.com/article/0yis65v1vt-blackboard-instructor#syncing_rosters

Recommend to sync your roster once in week 1 and once in week 2.

And after that, just when students you know students add/drop.

Students' long form Drexel email address will be their login userid for Gradescope.

For Posting Your Grades, see:

• https://help.gradescope.com/article/0yis65v1vt-blackboard-instructor#posting_grades

See the detailed instructions here.

 It seems to just open GS in an iframe on BB. Do students need this, or can they just go to gradescope.com directly? Do I have to visit GS from this link?

• You and your students should use the GS LTI too link in Bb Learn. Because the GS LTI Tool Link lets embed GS in your BB Learn section within an iframe, Bb Learn userid and email information, as well as course information, is instantly and automatically transferred to GS as well. Having students use Bb Learn rather than GS directly will also avoid duplicate account issues in the future. Overall, it just avoids confusion with accidental creation of assignments and courses and accounts not linked to the Bb Learn course section.

1. Download the Gradescope Roster
   1. From BBL, click a Gradescope Assignment link to access the course.
   2. From the Gradescope navigation menu, select Roster
   3. At the bottom, click Download Roster
      Note: If this is not visible, it may be under a “More” menu
2. Enter Section Identifiers
   1. In the Section column, enter identifiers for each student’s section Ex: “Lab 060”
      If you are working with a large course, you may wish to use spreadsheet VLOOKUPs or write a small script to speed this up
   2. Export the result as a CSV
3. Upload the Gradescope Roster
   1. On the Gradescope Roster screen, click “+Add Students or Staff”
   2. Choose the CSV File option
   3. Select the CSV File with section info and click Next
   4. Confirm that the preview looks right
   5. Uncheck the “Let new users know…” box
   6. Click Import

Do I have to click "Sync Drexel Learn Roster" in GS? Will I have to click this again if students add/drop the course to keep the GS roster up to date?

You do need to click "Sync Drexel Learn Roster." 
And yes, if users are added or dropped within Blackboard, you'll need to click the link above to re-sync again.
WE recommend syncing once early next week (Tues or Weds).
Then syncing once more early week 2 (Mon or Tues), after students' add/drop period is over.
After that, you won't need to sync again unless someone drops.
Any existing submissions and grades assigned to dropped students will be preserved in GS. 

• "Yes, Gradescope allows multiple graders to grade at once. The easiest way is to have each person grading their own question, but multiple people can also grade the same question without a problem, as long as they use the Next Ungraded button to navigate. This will ensure that graders never see something that someone else is looking at or has already graded."
• (Response from https://help.gradescope.com/article/2pmbm6k1z7-can-multiple-people-grade-at-once#:~:text=Yes%2C%20Gradescope%20allows%20multiple%20graders%20to%20grade%20at,they%20use%20the%20Next%20Ungraded%20button%20to%20navigate )

There is no relationship between the due dates in Gradescope and Blackboard. You can choose to remove the due dates in Blackboard. Students will not be able to submit their work after the due date in Gradescope has passed.

If you created the Bb Learn Gradescope Assignment and it made a column in the Grade Center, posting grades from Gradescope to Blackboard would upload the grades in the Grade Center.

Students who have not submitted an assignment will have no grades synced. Their grades will show as blank (--/100).

"Yes! Multiple graders can grade the same assignment and even the same question on Gradescope in parallel without overlapping. We’ll automatically split up the work among the graders for you. When multiple people are grading the same question (by clicking on it from the Grade Submissions page), all graders will need to use the Next Ungraded button (or ‘z’ keyboard shortcut) to move from submission to submission. As long as all graders are using the Next Ungraded button, each submission will ‘lock’ for the grader who is currently on it, and no two graders will ever see or grade the same student’s submission. All graders will also always be using the same rubric for each question. If any grader changes the rubric, all other graders on that question will see a notification message which will tell them what has changed on the rubric."

(Response from  https://help.gradescope.com/article/0t7497swka-remote-faq-team-grading )

If you submit your GS assignments to test and there is no row in the BB Grade Center, student grades will not be skipped - as long as they have submissions in the Gradescope assignment and are enrolled on the course roster.

Yes, That's all you need to do. We'd prefer you create the GS Assignment in Bb Learn, but what you did will work as well.

Yes, manually set grades will be overwritten when grades are posted from Gradescope. 

Yes, that will post/upload grades to Bb Learn. Again, recommend doing this in GS within Bb Learn, of course. But I think that's what you are asking anyway. From GS instructions: "Keep in mind that posting grades to Blackboard will only post the students' final assignment scores from Gradescope to the corresponding Blackboard grade column or gradebook item. Only grades for fully graded submissions (which have a checkmark in the Graded column on the Review Grades page) will be posted."