This guide will walk you through the process of setting up a Gradescope Assignment (Homework / Problem Set) for the submission of students' scanned handwritten assessment. 

Note: Gradescope uses US naming conventions for academic terms and will default to the current North American term time. Requests have been made with the vendor to provide Australian terms but in the meantime, staff and students can simply ignore the term name and refer only to the course name.

5. Rubric options

There are three main rubric options:

Note: It is possible to use different scoring options for individual questions.

Negative scoring

Use Negative scoring and take marks off from the total based on errors.. 

Example question: What is the integral of x?
Answer: ½ x² + C

Rubric example

negative scoring rubric

Marking example

negative marking example

Positive scoring single mark

Use Positive scoring and select a single mark for a question or subquestion.

Example question: What is the integral of x?
Answer: ½ x² + C

Rubric example

positive scoring select one

Marking example

positive scoring one mark example

Positive scoring multiple marks

Use Positive scoring  and added select marks for each corrent step / component.

Example question: What is the integral of x?
Answer: ½ x² + C

 Rubric example

Positive scoring single mark

Marking example

positive scoring exam