Remote Assessment with Crowdmark

Richard Li, Engineering Faculty CTE Liaison

Paul Kates, Mathematics Faculty CTE Liaison

University of Waterloo, March 1, 2021

Today's Message

• online marking has management benefits
• students find CM easy to use
• instructors also like CM, especially for large classes

   year  courses assessments
   2016      148         833
   2017      307        1741
   2018      465        2716
   2019      614        3467
   2020      730        6228
  

• simple to try: make {account, course, assessment}, submit-as-student, grade

• note: Crowdmark is not a quiz system (but does have MC automatic grading)

Benefits

• timed assessments
• can mark a-question-at-a-time or a-student-at-a-time
• can monitor the quality of grading
• markers can't see who they are grading
• can grade group work
• grading 24/7 and no class time used returning papers
• automatic sum and summary of grades
• can reuse marking comments, LaTeX math comments, comments as rubric
• complete set of graded papers is available for review and corrections
• free for use by UWaterloo instructors and students
• connected to UW LEARN for roster and grade transfer

How to use Crowdmark in Six Steps

1. Create a course

2. Enroll students

3. Create an assigned assessment

4. Distribute to students

5. Grade

6. Return student work

Questions and Answers

Help

• UW Crowdmark login page: https://crowdmark.com and click Sign-in button.
• Crowdmark help pages: https://crowdmark.com/help/
• UWaterloo Crowdmark help page: https://uwaterloo.ca/crowdmark/
• UWaterloo Contact help email: cmadmin@uwaterloo.ca