What is Gradescope?
Gradescope is an innovative feedback and assessment platform designed to simplify and accelerate the grading process for exams, homework, coding assignments, and more. By enabling remote assessment delivery, Gradescope helps instructors and graders provide timely, detailed feedback that enhances student learning outcomes.
Gradescope centralizes student submissions, grading rubrics, individualized comments, and statistical analytics into one streamlined system. Whether you’re grading handwritten exams, coding projects, or multiple-choice quizzes, Gradescope supports a wide range of assignment types to suit diverse teaching needs.
Who can use Gradescope?
Gradescope is available to all current Boston University faculty and the students enrolled in their courses. Students can view and interact with their own submissions in courses where instructors have enabled Gradescope.
Features
- Grade Written Exams
- Auto-Grade Online Multiple Choice
- Coded Assignment Auto-Grader
- Class Grade Insights
- Direct Connection to Blackboard Learn Grades
- More quality and timely feedback.
- Collaborative grading rubrics that help streamline the tedious parts of grading while increasing grading consistency and decreasing bias
- Various assignment types ranging from fully online with many question types to handwritten, or a combination of the two
- AI-assisted grading which allows instructors to automatically group similar answers and grade all the answers in each group at once
Using Gradescope with Blackboard
- Are you using Blackboard Original or Ultra? To figure out if you’re using Blackboard Original or Blackboard Ultra course view, check out Blackboard’s article on determining your course view.
Overview
Below is the general process you should follow to be able to use Gradescope with Blackboard.
- Instructor Guides:Using Gradescope with Blackboard as an instructor
- Student Guides: Using Gradescope with Blackboard as a Student.
How do I access Gradescope?
- Faculty can set up a Gradescope course through Blackboard Learn.
- Faculty and students can log in with their Kerbos credentials at Gradescope.com.