Gradescope, the grading assistant, can now integrate with Blackboard to make grading even easier. Did you know that you can also sync your roster in Blackboard ?

Connecting your Course

  1. Navigate to your Blackboard Ultra course.
  2. Click Books and Tools.
    Click on View course & institution tools
  3. Click Gradescope.
  4. This will either create a new course in Gradescope or allow you to connect to an existing one.
    Example of the form for creating or linking a course.

 

Syncing your roster

  1. Navigate to your Blackboard Learn Ultra course.
  2. Click Books and Tools.
    Click on View course & institution tools
  3. Click Gradescope.
  4. Expand Gradescope’s left sidebar (if it isn’t already) and click Roster.
  5. Click Sync Blackboard Learn Roster at the bottom of the page.
  6. A modal will appear explaining how user accounts will be synced. All names, emails, and student IDs will be auto-synced from Blackboard. Decide whether to allow Gradescope to automatically email users to notify them they have been added to the course.
    student email example from gradescope

    • Note: Sync Group Set to Sections – Decide whether to sync a group set from Blackboard to the Sections field in the Gradescope roster. The Sections field on the Gradescope roster is used for grading questions by section and is an added column in all data exports.
  7. Click Sync Roster.

Note: Remember to re-sync if users are added or dropped within Blackboard. Any existing submissions and grades assigned to dropped students will be preserved in Gradescope.

For more help and details, visit Gradescope’s help page or their Getting Started page and look at the 1.3 integration instructions!