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Gradescope
User Summit
The 2021 Gradescope User Summit brought members of our community together to share innovative approaches to teaching and best practices for accelerating grading and feedback.
Explore the presentations from our 2021 User Summit
When I prepared for remote teaching in Fall 2020, I mourned for the loss of eye contact and the energy that comes from being with a group of students. In addition, as I came to grips with the perils of high-stakes testing in an online classroom, I had to completely revise my syllabus and build in course credit – POINTS – for a variety of non-assessment activities. I am happy to report that this transformation has produced an online environment that is rich with opportunities to make social and emotional connections with my students.
Teaching and grading large courses can be tough, and instructors are facing higher burdens than ever before with in-person/online and synchronous/asynchronous course delivery modes. One question lingers: How are we supposed to take care of this heavy load and still have anything left for grading and meaningful feedback? Join this session to hear how Gradescope has helped us manage large classes and get tips for getting newer students and course staff going in a primarily quantitative course.
This presentation will show how users can leverage class assessments through content tagging to produce accreditation competency mapping and customized content reports. Tagging assessment material is a needed step in effectively organizing student performance information, and providing students and instructors with information on each student’s strengths and weaknesses in a course. These skills will help inform teaching practices and make creating accreditation reports a breeze!
This presentation will share how Gradescope has been used in a general chemistry course to support a range of chemistry laboratory activities, both remote and in-person, as well as techniques to support student-centered active learning exercises in the general chemistry classroom and metacognitive reflection surrounding quizzes and exams.
To educators, maintaining the integrity of the test taking process is paramount. With a move to remote instruction due to the ongoing pandemic, folks have been forced to rethink the paradigm on assessments. How does one administer low and high stakes assessments alike while being certain that academic standards are being maintained? Or perhaps how one provides rich feedback to all students in a more efficient manner? Attend this talk to see how I was able to accomplish both with Gradescope.
The University of Edinburgh responded quickly to the challenges of the global pandemic by transitioning paper exams to digital. We will present our journey from several perspectives, the implementation of the technology as a rapid and responsive project, development of processes to comply with academic policy, agreement on new digital procedures for Learning Technologists and Teaching administrators, and finally how we presented the new exams processes to students and staff. Join us!
Panel Discussion with Educational Technologists.
Lyn Riverstone | Student Response System Product Manager | University IT, Academic Technology | Oregon State University
Debora Steffen | Senior Educational Technologist | Purdue Online, Instructional Innovations | Purdue University
Hayley Whitefoot | Blended Learning Enhancement Officer | Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences | University of Leeds
Hear from instructional technology specialists, instructional designers, and like-minded colleagues who evaluate new technology, provide support and training, and help instructors get the most from Gradescope. Learn how they build meaningful use cases, help onboard instructional and marking staff new to Gradescope, build user communities on campus, and share assessment best practices for Gradescope.