This guide will outline the steps you must go through to enable Gradescope within your Moodle course page. Within the guide you will also find links to relevant the Gradescope’s Help Centre pages.
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Step 1: Create a Gradescope assignment in your Moodle course
Log into LSE Moodle and go to the Moodle course where you would like to add a Gradescope assignment. Select ‘Turn editing on’.
Go to the area where you want to add the assignment and click‘Add an activity or resource’.From the popup windowthat appears, choose Gradescope.
Within the window that opens, add the Activity name. Click ‘Save and return to course’.
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After naming the Gradescope activity DO NOT click ‘Save and Display’. Otherwise, Gradescope will load in a small frame within the same browser page instead of opening in a new browser window. If this has occurred by accident, please return to the Moodle course homepage and click on the Gradescope activity to load it in a new browser window. |
Once Gradescope launches, you’ll see a dialog box with two course-linking options.
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IMPORTANT: For a Moodle course which was previously linked to a Gradescope course, you must first ‘unlink’ the old course before creating a new Gradescope course. Alternatively, to re-use the same assignments from the old course you can simply duplicate it and link this version instead for the new term. |
Choose either to link with:
A new Gradescope Course
An existing Gradescope Course
Please Note: If this is the first Gradescope assignment you have created for a Moodle course, then please select ‘A new Gradescope Course’ instead.
You’ll see another dialog box with two assignment-linking options.
Choice either to link with:
A new Gradescope Assignment
An existing Gradescope Assignment
If selecting to link with ‘A new Gradescope Assignment’ then the ‘Create Assignment’ window will appear. You will come back to this in Step 3: Setup your Gradescope Assignment.
From within the Gradescope Dashboard, you will then need to expand Gradescope’s left sidebar (if it has not been already) and click ‘Course Settings’ to update the course details (e.g. course number, course name and course description etc.).
Please Note: The course title and description changes made in Gradescope within the course settings area will only appear in Gradescope, and will not be reflected within the Moodle course.
Step 2: Synchronise Your Roster - Moodle enrolments to Gradescope
When a course is linked, your students can access the Gradescope assignments from within Moodle.
At this stage, it is recommended that you sync your roster by using the following steps:
From within the Gradescope Dashboard, expand Gradescope’s left sidebar (if it has not been already) and click ‘Roster’ to access your Roster page.
At the bottom of the Roster page click on the ‘Sync LSE GradeScope Roster’ button. (It might be available via the ‘More’ menu if web browser screen is minimised).
A pop-up window will then appear with instructions explaining how accounts will be synced. All student enrolments details (names, emails etc.) will be automatically synced from Moodle.
Please Note: Group information setup in Moodle will not be synced, but once the enrolments are synced you can then manually add ‘sections’ of students in Gradescope which are the same as groups. See Gradescope’s Help Centre for Adding sections to the roster.
By default, Gradescope will email users to notify them that they’ve been added to the course. If you don’t want users to be notified, uncheck ‘Let new users know that they were added to the course’.
Click ‘Sync Roster’.
Please Note: If you have had students added/dropped in Moodle, always remember to re-sync the roster. Any existing submissions/grades for dropped students will be preserved. See Gradescope’s Help Centre on Adding Students and Staff.
Step 3: Set up your Gradescope assignment
You can now start creating your new assignment in Gradescope.
Select ‘A new Gradescope Assignment’ and select ‘Link Assignment’.
The assignment types menu will appear in the left area of the Create Assignment screen.
Depending on the type of assignment you chose, you will then be presented with the various settings where you can add your assignment questions, create your outline, upload your autograder file, etc.
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Visit Creating, editing and deleting assignments for more information. Also check out the guides on assignment types and the various Assignment Workflows. |
Remember to click on ‘Create Assignment’ when you are done and save any changes made after this.
Please Note: For student-uploaded assignments, once the release date passes in Gradescope, students will be able to submit work via the Gradescope course link in their Moodle course.
Step 4: Create a test student
You may wish to create a test account to submit/test your assignment as student. In this case please go through the following steps:
Navigate to your Roster page in Gradescope by going to your course dashboard in Gradescope and selecting ‘Roster’ in the left sidebar.
Click ‘Add Students or Staff’ in the bottom right corner.
Choose ‘Single User’, and create a test account for Gradescope.
On the Add user screen that appears, enter the test user details and click ‘Submit’. An email will be sent to this address with details of how to log on.
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DO NOT enter your LSE email address for this test user. A personal, valid email address should be used if you are intending to log in to access Gradescope as a test user. |
Step 5: Grade and provide feedback for Gradescope assignment submissions
From within Moodle click and open the Gradescope assignment you would like to grade, by clicking on the relevant link.
Within the Gradescope dashboard access the assignment settings for the assignment you wish to grade submissions for.
Within the assignment settings, expand Gradescope’s left sidebar (if this is not already the case), and click ‘Grade Submissions’.
You will then see the grading interface, see these detailed instructions on Grading Submissions within Gradescope.
Step 6: Posting grades and feedback from Gradescope to Moodle
Ensure that the roster is synced by clicking on the ‘Sync LSE GradeScope Roster’ button.
From within Gradescope, navigate to the Gradescope assignment you would like to release the grades and feedback for within Moodle.
Within the assignment settings, expand Gradescope’s left sidebar (if this is not already the case), and click ‘Review Grades’.
On the Review Grades page in Gradescope, click the ‘Post Grades to LSE GradeScope’ button in the bottom right-hand corner.
When the dialog box appears, click ‘Post Grades’. The grades for fully graded submissions (which have a checkmark in the Graded column on the Review Grades page) will be posted.
Please Note: Posting grades to Moodle will only post the students’ final assignment scores from Gradescope to the corresponding Moodle Gradebook column.
If you would like your students to be able to see their graded, annotated submissions, rubrics, and feedback on Gradescope, click on the ‘Publish Grades’button.
If you’d like to, click the ‘Compose Email to Students’button at the bottom of the Review Grades page in Gradescope to alert students via. email that their grades are now visible.
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To see what your students will see when they view their grades, check out the Using Gradescope with Moodle as a Student guide. |