Overview
Beginning Summer 2025, UTSA will transition from ParScore to Gradescope for bubble sheet scanning and grading. Gradescope offers advanced automation, item analysis, and a Canvas integration that streamlines your multiple-choice assessments.
Key Features of Gradescope Bubble Sheets
- Auto-Grading: Scan, upload, and let Gradescope automatically grade submissions based on the answer key.
- Flexible Scoring Rules: Adjust scoring to add partial credit, multiple answer keys, or change points for specific questions.
- Detailed Analytics: Gain insights into question-level and overall exam performance, which helps identify common misconceptions.
Workflow Overview
Here’s a high-level look at the bubble sheet workflow. This visual outlines what the overall process looks like for a typical in-person exam using Gradescope.
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Create Assignment in Gradescope - When getting started with Gradescope, you will first need to complete the following steps:
- Link your Canvas course to Gradescope (one-time only)
- Sync your Canvas roster to Gradescope (We recommend doing this several times at the start of the semester to ensure adds and drops get synced).
- Create your bubble sheet exam in Gradescope. (To be completed for each exam).
- Link your Gradescope assignment in Canvas. (To be completed for each exam).
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Administer Exam in Class
- Rather than purchasing a Scantron form, students will need to print a Gradescope bubble sheet form.
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Scan Completed Answer Sheets
- Once your exam is completed, you will need to scan your answer sheets to PDF using any standard scanner. For tips, please visit Gradescope Scanning Tips.
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Upload to Gradescope
- After your answer sheets have been scanned, you're now ready to upload them to Gradescope.
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Review Submissions
- Now that your submissions have been processed, you can review the grades or view statistics and the item analysis report.
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Publish Grades to Canvas
- Finally, when you're ready, you can post the grades to Canvas.
Resources
For more information, please review these additional resources:
Support
- Vendor Support: Please email [email protected].
- UTSA Support: Please email [email protected], call 210-458-4520, or book a consultation with our TLDT experts.