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.
Notice: The Gradescope-Canvas integration will be available starting Tuesday, May 20th. In the meantime, instructors who wish to get started early can visit gradescope.com to create an account and begin exploring the platform.
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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.