Quick links:
- Step 0: Before Starting
- Step 1: Enable Gradescope in Canvas
- Step 2: Create/Link/Access Gradescope Course
- Step 3: Roster Sync
- Step 4: Link Assignments
- Step 5: Grades Export
- More Details
Quick links:
If you have an existing Gradescope Account, please compare the JHU email address you used for that account with the email address that Canvas has for you. Here are convenient links to check for each system:
If they don't match...
In order to prevent Gradescope from making a second account for you, you will need to add the email address that Canvas has for you to your Gradescope account. This is needed because Canvas typically utilizes your jhedid@jh.edu email address and Gradescope likely uses whatever you set as your “Preferred Hopkins” email (which is the result of logging in with the JH Single Sign-on).
(You would only need to do this once.)
Here are the steps to fix this:
If they do match...
You can continue to below with Setup.
To set up a Gradescope course in your Canvas course, you will need to enable the Gradescope tool.
Once the Gradescope has been enabled in your Canvas course, you should now see the “Gradescope” link in the Course Navigation Menu on the left. When you click that link, a Gradescope account will be created for you (if you don't have one) and it will prompt you with the option to either create a new course (and have it linked) or select an existing Gradescope course to have it linked. Either option will bring you to the Course Settings page so that you can verify things are set up the way you want.
NOTE: It is recommended that the instructor initially uses that link to create the Gradescope course.
The next step after the Gradescope course is integrated with your Canvas course, is to do a Roster Sync to update the student and staff list in your Gradescope course. This feature does not create a live feed for populating your Roster. If students get added to your course after you perform a Roster Sync, you should resync the roster since it doesn’t happen automatically.
When the Roster is updated, you will notice the students will have a green link symbol signifying that they are linked to the Canvas Gradebook, so when you export grades from Gradescope, it will add the grades for each of those students.
NOTE: Any students, TAs, or Instructors added manually to the Roster would remain in Gradescope after the sync. If you want to remove them, you would have to do it manually in Gradescope.
In order to use the Grades Export feature of the integration, you will need to create Assignments in Canvas and link them to Assignments you've created in Gradescope.
NOTE: It is recommended that if you are creating “Instructor-Submitted” assignments in Gradescope (such as an in-person exam), you should wait until you are ready to publish the grades to create it. This is to reduce confusion for the students who would likely not see anything anyway for an instructor-submitted assignment until the grades were published. You also have the option to set the assignment as “unpublished” in Canvas until you are ready to post the grades.
This is a feature that allows you to post the grades from a single Gradescope Assignment to the Canvas Gradebook Assignment that is linked.
NOTE: If the assignment in Canvas has an "Automatic" Grade Posting Policy, Canvas will notify the students when you export grades from Gradescope.
For more details about the steps above, Gradescope has a great help page on Canvas integration with Gradescope. Keep in mind that Canvas uses the “LTI v1.3” which is the latest version of the integration tool.
https://help.gradescope.com/article/y10z941fqs-instructor-canvas