eLearning

Turnitin Gradescope Pilot and Deployment

July 2021–December 2023

What is Turnitin Gradescope?

Turnitin Gradescope is a tool for marking handwritten assessments such as math, chemistry, physics, engineering, accounting, finance, languages and music. Gradescope allows grouping of similar student responses together for simultaneous marking and feedback, greatly improving the efficiency of the marking process. Course coordinators can set GradeScope up for either student or staff submissions of scanned documents.

Turnitin Gradescope also includes functionality for the submission of software coding assignments by students. Code assignments can be both automatically or manually marked.

Additional functionality available in Gradescope includes the ability to mark MCQ papers scanned on standard UQ printer-scanners by teaching staff.

What is happening?

Semester 2 2023

Priority support is being provided to School of Maths and Physics staff transitioning to using Gradescope for assignment submission and marking. Support includes UQ staff and student guides, Teaching and Learning seminarwith presentations for school staff who have used Gradescope on 31 May 2023, hands on workshops 7 June and 23 June and consultations.

Semester 1 2023

An early adopters program is being run to provide dedicated support to teaching staff using Gradescope to mark MCQ papers. Staff interested in joining this program should complete the expression of interest form. Alternatively staff can self-serve by following the Create a Gradescope Bubble sheet assignment guide.

Gradescope is being trialled by four School and Maths and Physics courses as an alternative to their current marking process that uses the Assignment File Upload tool. Note, the Assignment File Upload tool will not be available from 1 December 2023.

Summer Semester 2022

Gradescope was trialled by MATH1051 as an alternative to School of Maths and Physics marking process that uses the Assignment File Upload tool.

The Assignment File Upload tool is based on Blackboard Building Block technology. The vendor will be decommissioning this technology at the end of 2023, so the tool will no longer work at that point. As a result, the current tool will be unavailable for use from the beginning of 2024.

Semester 2 2022

An addition small trial was conducted on using the bubble sheet functionality in Gradescope to mark MCQ question papers scanned on standard UQ printer-scanners by teaching staff. Six courses in the trial used the functionality to mark End-of-semester exams.

Semester 1 2022

Turnitin Gradescope was made available to all UQ courses.

A small trial was conducted on using the bubble sheet functionality in Gradescope to mark MCQ question papers scanned on standard UQ printer-scanners by teaching staff. Four courses in the trial used the functionality to mark Deferred/Supplementary exams.

Semester 2 2021

Turnitin GradeScope was piloted for the submission and automated marking of coding assignments in ITEE.

How was the pilot initiated?

The Digital Learning Sub-committee (DLSC) requested a pilot of Turnitin GradeScope for Semester 2, 2021 for the automated marking of code assignments in ITEE courses. Based on a successful pilot the Digital Learning sub-committee endorsed the inclusion of GradeScope in UQ's Turnitin licence for 2022 and that its availablity be brought to the attention of all other disciplines that might benefit from its use, i.e. Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, Accounting and Finance. 

What resources are being produced?

Produced

Planned

  • Turnitin GradeScope self-paced online workshop (Handwritten assessment)
  • Video case studies from users

How is the availablity of Turnitin GradeScope being communicated?