Blackboard

Managing Groups in Blackboard

There are a number of methods to add groups to your Blackboard space depending on the number of groups required. The short videos below show how to create single groups and group sets, and edit existing groups. How to create single groups in Blackboard Please visit the Create Groups webpage for more information on creating […]

Gradescope: Get Started

Step-by-step instructions with videos for setting up Gradescope for your Blackboard course space. In this page, you’ll find specific details for completing each of these steps and links to other pertinent Gradescope Help Centre articles.

Gradescope: Homework assignment

Once you have created a Gradescope course, next you can create your assignment. This information will provide an overview of the Gradescope dashboard, menu options, staff roles/permissions and guidance for each stage of the workflow for a Homework assignment:

Gradescope

Gradescope enables electronic submission and marking of handwritten responses, typed responses, formulae and diagrams, programming/code and multiple choice. Gradescope can be added to any Blackboard course area. All Gradescope assignments and exams – both for students submitting and markers – are accessed through the Gradescope dashboard, the grades are pushed out to an associated column in the Blackboard Grade Centre.

How can you use formative feedback to help your students?

Giving our students feedback can have a profound impact on how they learn and how they feel about their studies. It is arguably one of the most important things we can do to help our students improve their performance in summative assessment (Broadfoot & Black 2004). Yet it is easy to brush past the practical […]