From within Canvas:

1. Click Assignments, then +Assignment
2. Add the Assignment Name and details
3. Select Submission Type: External Tool
4. Click the Find button, scroll to and click on it
5. In the ”Link Resource from External Tool” window, click A new Gradescope assignment, then Link Assignment
6. Select Bubble Sheet and click Next
7. Name the assignment
8. For “Who will Upload Submissions?” select Instructor
9. Click Create Assignment
10. On the new screen, click Select, scroll down and click Save, which will open the Gradescope screen
11. Create your answer key, then click +Add Version at the top to create up to five different versions
12. Click Save Answer Key when finished

You can download the template and print copies on a departmental printer or a personal printer. The UCC Copy Center will also provide template copies that an instructor can pick up in person during operating hours. 

Students may use any writing utensil as long as it is dark and the bubbled cells are distinct. Pencils and blue and black pens seem to work best. We suggest avoiding light and bright colored pens.

You can take your completed templates to the Copy Center in 2500 UCC in person during their business hours, no appointment is needed. If you want the Copy Center to scan the exams, you also need to include a completed a job ticket. The Copy Center staff will scan your assignments for you and send them to you via OneDrive. 

Copy Center
2500 University Capitol Centre
200 South Capitol Street
Phone: 319-335-0861
Email: printing-cc3@uiowa.edu
Website: printmail.fo.uiowa.edu

Copy Center staff are onsite Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from noon to 4 p.m. Please email the Copy Center if you need to pick up template copies or scan completed assignments outside of their available hours. 

No, batches of submissions can be scanned and uploaded at once to a Gradescope Bubble Sheets assignment. Gradescope will automatically break the batch PDF into individual submissions.

Gradescope can automatically regrade student submissions after an instructor edits the answer key for a Bubble Sheets assignment. 

At the beginning of the semester, an instructor will need to sync their Gradescope course to the ICON roster in their ICON site. After this complete, all submissions uploaded to a Bubble Sheets assignment will auto-match to the appropriate student in the roster. 

Option 1

Instructors can release just the grades by clicking on the Post Grades to ICON button. This will post the students’ grades but will not allow students to view their completed bubble sheet in Gradescope. To release the bubble sheet to students, the instructor can click on the Publish Grades button.

To see the Post Grades to ICON button, instructors will need to make sure that the Gradescope assignment is linked to a Canvas assignment.

1. Create the assignment in Gradescope.
2. Once the Bubble Sheet assignment has been created in Gradescope, create the assignment in Canvas. You will link the Gradescope Bubble Sheet assignment to the Canvas assignment in this step.

To create the Canvas assignment:

1. Click Assignments in the course navigation.
2. Click +Assignment.
3. Add the Assignment Name and details (description, points, etc.).
4. For Submission Type select External Tool.
5. Click the Find button.
6. Scroll to Gradescope and click on it.
7. In the Link Resource from External Tool window, click An existing Gradescope assignment.

8. Find the assignment in the Search for Assignment drop down.

   
9. Click the Link Assignment button.
10. Click the yellow Select button.
11. Finish setting up the rest of the assignment and click Save.

Option 2

You can set the student visibility of the Rubric Item Visibility on the Assignment Settings page. These settings only apply to the student view of your rubric. Students will always see submission-specific comments and point adjustments, and you will always see all your rubrics. You can access the student’s view of the rubric by selecting Export Submissions in the bottom action bar.

To see the Post Grades to ICON button, the assignment must be linked to a Canvas/ICON assignment. If it is not linked to a Canvas/ICON assignment, it will not show the Post Grades to ICON button because it will not have a course assignment to Post Grades to in the course. It will only allow you to publish the grades within Gradescope. If you don't wish to link the Gradescope assignment to a Canvas/ICON assignment or you don’t see the Post Grades to ICON button, the grades will need to be downloaded for the Gradescope assignment and either manually entered into the gradebook or imported into the gradebook.

To import grades from a Gradescope assignment into the course gradebook:

1. Click on the Download Grades button in the Gradescope assignment.
2. Download the CSV.
3. Export the course gradebook. To learn more, visit the Canvas webpage on how to export course gradebooks.
4. The course gradebook CSV is sorted in alphabetical order by last name.
5. In the Gradescope assignment CSV, highlight the Last Name column.
6. In the top ribbon, click on Sort & Filter.
7. Click Sort A to Z.
8. In the Sort Warning that pops up, select Expand the Selection.
9. Click the Sort button.
10. Compare the Gradescope assignment CSV with the course gradebook CSV to confirm that the students are in the correct alphabetical order.
11. Copy the total scores from the Gradescope assignment CSV.
12. Paste them into the correct assignment column in the course gradebook CSV.
13. Spot check to confirm that the scores are correct.
14. Import the updated scores into the gradebook. To view step-by-step instructions, visit Canvas's import grades into gradebook webpage.

There is not a benchmark number of students or number of submissions that are needed for results to become statistically significant. The more data that is entered, the more that Gradescope will compare against the assigned values.

Yes, TAs can have all the same permissions and access to Gradescope Bubble Sheets as instructors do.

Set the number of points that can be awarded for answering questions correctly. For questions with multiple answers, there are three scoring styles to choose from:

• Exact: Full points are only awarded when all correct answers for the question are selected.
• Partial: Partial credit is awarded for each correct answer selected. Zero points are awarded if no correct answers are chosen or if any incorrect answers are selected.
• Either/Or: Full points are awarded when any of the correct answers are selected. Zero points are awarded if no correct answers are chosen or if any incorrect answers are selected. For example, if students are awarded full points for selecting either option A or B, Either/Or scoring should be selected.

The point value and scoring style can be changed for individual questions by selecting the settings cog beside the question number.

Currently, Gradescope does not provide an option to view assignment statistics and item analysis at an overall assignment level. Instructors can view assignments statistics and item analysis for each individual version of a Bubble Sheets assignment. To learn more about statistics and item analysis provided within a Bubble Sheets assignment, view this Gradescope resource. 

The Gradescope knowledge base is full of answers to your questions.