How to Create an Assignment for Gradescope

To create an assignment to use with Gradescope Bubble Sheet, you would start by creating an assignment as you typically would, apart from:

  1. Choose External Tool as the Submission Type.
  2. Click Find to open the Configure External Tool window.
  3. Scroll through the list to find Gradescope and click on it.
  4. Click on Select.
    1. You may choose to select Load this Tool In A New Tab if your assignment is particularly long or complex.
  5. Finish creating your assignment as you normally would.
  6. Click Save.

It’s best not to publish the assignment until after you also create it in Gradescope so that students get all the needed information. You will need to return to publish your assignment later before you can post grades to Canvas from Gradescope. It is best practice to publish your assignment in Canvas.

You will now be taken to Gradescope where you can create the details of the assignment.

Create the Assignment in Gradescope

It is important to create the assignment in Canvas as well as in Gradescope. If you do not do that, you will not be able to link the assignment between the two systems for grades to appear in the student grade book within Canvas. As noted above, most aspects of the assignment are completely separate between the two systems.

 

Detailed directions for the use of Gradescope itself are beyond the scope of this single document. If you want to learn more about Gradescope in general:

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