Getting started with Gradescope

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 window that appears, choose Gradescope.

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• Within the window that opens, add the Activity name. Click ‘Save and return to course’.

• Once Gradescope launches, you’ll see a dialog box with two course-linking options.

• Choose either to link with:

  1. A new Gradescope Course

  2. An existing Gradescope Course

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• You’ll see another dialog box with two assignment-linking options.

• Choice either to link with:

  1. A new Gradescope Assignment

  2. 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.).

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.

• 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’.

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.

• Remember to click on ‘Create Assignment’ when you are done and save any changes made after this.

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.

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.

• 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.