Two New Workshops on Crowdmark

In February and March, Teaching & Learning Technologies will be offering several opportunities for instructors to learn more about Crowdmark, a collaborative grading software in use at Northwestern.

Crowdmark Basics

Crowdmark is a collaborative online grading software optimal for medium and large classes with exams that require work by hand and/or multiple graders. Some favorite instructor features include:

• Easily grade all of the student responses to any specific question without shuffling through papers.
• Create comment libraries that multiple graders can access. When a grader notices patterns of mistakes in student work they can create detailed and helpful comments for all graders to insert, thus providing valuable feedback to students.
• Grading comments can have associated point values, which, when edited dynamically update across all graded questions and automatically update scores.
• During the grading process, lead instructors can check in real time to see if your graders are using the rubric and providing adequate feedback, which is especially helpful for developing the skills of first-time teaching assistants.

Crowdmark is available to all Northwestern faculty during the 2020-2021 academic year. Instructors can access Crowdmark with Canvas integration using this link: https://app.crowdmark.com/sign-in/northwestern.

New Features Update Workshop

Like many educational technology programs, Crowdmark has been working to address the remote and online challenges of remote instruction. A number of improvements and features have been introduced over the last few months that may be helpful for your assessment practices. Whether you are an experienced Crowdmark user or curious about exploring this assessment platform, join us on February 16 to hear about new features for remote assessments.

At this one-time event, we will summarize major improvements and new features that Crowdmark has added in recent months, including:

• Timed assessments, with accommodations
• New question types (multiple choice, text box)
• Customizing assignments for sections or individual students

Join the conversation and share your knowledge and experiences with fellow graduate instructors and faculty using Crowdmark at Northwestern on February 16th at 3:30 pm.

REGISTER HERE for the Crowdmark Update Workshop

Crowdmark 101 Workshops

Whether you are a new Crowdmark user or need a refresher on the platform, join us at March 5, 10:30 am OR March 16, 3 pm to learn how Crowdmark can help you administer and grade assessments.

This session will give faculty and graduate student instructors the skills necessary to administer and grade an assessment in Crowdmark. Specifically, we will discuss:

• How Crowdmark connects to Canvas
• How to create an assessment
• How to administer the assessment and how students submit their responses
• The robust grading tools available in Crowdmark and how to return results to students

These workshops will focus on the ways that Crowdmark can be used in remote learning. Crowdmark can also be used for in-person assessments so learning about the platform now may help instructors improve their assessment procedures when we return to primarily on-campus instruction.

If you would like a Canvas prep site created for you to follow along and practice in Crowdmark during the  workshop, contact TLT before the workshop.

REGISTER HERE for the March 5 Crowdmark 101 Workshop

REGISTER HERE for the March 16 Crowdmark 101 Workshop

Curious about Crowdmark?

Get more details about Crowdmark on the Canvas Learning Center and the Digital Learning website.

Watch this short video overview of using Crowdmark at Northwestern University.