The future of exam scanning

Preparing to use Gradescope

1. To enable GradeScope in your course, go to Settings, then Navigation, and you can add it to the sidebar of Canvas for that course. For click-by-click instructions, see "Enable Navigation Links" at https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-manage-Course-Navigation-links/ta-p/1020
   The first time you click on Gradescope in your Canvas site, it will create a Gradescope course associated with that course's Canvas site..

2. Once you enable Gradescope, you will be able to follow the link from your Canvas site to the software. 

• For a traditional all-bubbles exam, Gradescope offers only 5-option multiple choice exams. Their sheet has 100 questions on the front, and 100 questions on the back. Print it single-sided if you have 100 questions or less.
• Gradescope can also process exams where you provide areas for answers including calculations, short text, marking up a graphic,etc. Gradescope's AI interface will help you group similar answers. If you want to add some bubble questions to that mix, we can give you a free font to make that easy, too.
• For exams that aren't bubble sheets, you can:
• prepare a PDF of the exam just as if students were completing it on paper, i.e., with each question having a space for the student's answer
• prepare an exam of questions, where the students will write their answers on their own paper
• No matter what type of exam you create, we strongly recommend that you have your students write their name on every piece of paper they submit, in case the pages are separated in the scanning process.

Creating the Exam in Gradescope

 You will enter your answer key for the exam in Gradescope.

• Gradescope provides clear, illustrated instructions for every step of the way. Please see https://help.gradescope.com/category/2h0648b77c-instructor-assignment-workflow

Administering the Test In-Person

Before the day of the test:

1. Print as many copies as you need of the test questions.

2. Tell students that they should bring their Penn ID cards and a pencil to the exam. They will need to enter their Penn ID number on the exam The Penn ID number is the middle 8 digits of the number listed directly below their name on the ID card. Remind them before every exam.

On the day of the test:

1. At exam time, distribute the sheets to students and remind them that their handwriting has to be legible and/or marks need to be neat and clear. Students can use pen or pencil, but we recommend pencil in order to allow erasures. Also, some pens may bleed through on 2-sided forms.

2. As students turn in their completed exams, check to ensure that they have filled in their name and Penn ID#s

Scanning the forms and processing the results

1. If you use multiple versions of the exam, make sure you have an area on the exam where students select the version they have answered. As you collect the exams, make sure that area is completed.

2. Use any high-speed copier/scanner that can send the scans to a shared drive or email them to you

• There are suitable copier/scanners in Solomon A-13, Levin 261 and Levin 461 (the kitchens on the 2nd and 4th floors, respectively). Email the scans to yourself. Note that there is a 25MB limit to email attachments, so divide the exams into stacks about 1/2-inch high
• Alternatively, you can scan the exams using your own hardware that will put the scans directly on your computer.
• The Gradescope instructions will walk you through uploading and processing the scans: https://help.gradescope.com/category/2h0648b77c-instructor-assignment-workflow

Gradescope for homework or take-home exams

Proedures are similar, but you will be ditributing the questions to the students electronically, usually via Canvas, and they will be submitting their responses to GradeScope themselves. They can take photos of the page using their phones. GradeScope can track late submissions, etc.