Get Started with Gradescope Essentials
Advanced paper-based, digital, and code assessments
Are you looking to save time on grading while providing more consistent, high-quality feedback to your students? As announced by DoIT, UMBC is launching a Gradescope pilot for the 2026-2027 academic year. Gradescope is available in Blackboard via the course Content Market.
Join our Gradescope Essentials Training to discover how this powerful assessment platform can streamline your entire workflow—whether your assignments are paper-based, digital, or code.
Designed for instructors, scholars, and teaching assistants, this session will give you the tools you need to modernize your assessments, eliminate grading bottlenecks, and reclaim your time.
What We Will Cover
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The Gradescope Advantage: What Gradescope is, how it works, and why it’s a game-changer for academic evaluation.
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Assignment Flexibility: Explore the wide variety of supported assignments, from handwritten problem sets and traditional exams to bubble sheets and digital uploads.
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Seamless Setup: Step-by-step guidance on how to build, format, and deploy your first Gradescope assignment.
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Next-Level Grading Tools: Master dynamic rubrics, built-in annotation tools, and AI-assisted grading to evaluate work faster, reduce bias, and maintain perfect consistency across multiple graders.
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Closing the Loop: Learn the simple workflow for publishing student feedback and posting grades directly to your LMS gradebook.
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Actionable Analytics: Discover how to leverage per-question and rubric-level statistics to identify student learning gaps and make data-driven decisions for your classroom.
RSVP
To RSVP for the event, please click “Sign Up” in the event post and be sure to add the event to your calendar! Registered participants will also receive a calendar invitation from the event host at least one week before the event.
JOINING THE SESSION
This session is hosted by Gradescope for UMBC instructors and will take place in a Zoom virtual meeting room. Visit the myUMBC Event post and select the "Join Online Event" button to join or use the Zoom meeting link in your calendar invitation.