What is Crowdmark?
Crowdmark is a Canadian company founded by a professor of the University of Toronto. Crowdmark offers software to facilitate the examination and grading process.
Aim of Crowdmark
Similar to Gradescope, Crowdmark aims to digitize the grading process, improve efficieny and enable more consistent grading and richer feedback.
Features
The Crowdmark Software offers different features related to the grading of open-ended questions which are listed below.
| Feature | Comment |
|---|---|
| Digitization of Exercises and Exams | Online and paper-based (must be created in Crowdmark) possible |
| Collaborative Grading | Currently graded answers are blocked for others |
| Grading Workflow | Grading split up by exercise |
| Manual Feedback | Comments be reused and be assigned a point-value such that they can be used similarly to rubrics |
| Free Form Annotation | - |
| Tags | - |
| Statistics | - |
| Exam Review | - |
Quotes
- “Independent studies have shown that educators experience up to a 75% productivity gain using Crowdmark” (see webpage and paper, no “scientific” methodology)
- “Our experiences with Crowdmark have been highly favourable. We have been able to objectively demonstrate a reduction in grading time of 30%, which is consistent with graders subjective estimate of marking time reduction averaging 37%.” (see independent paper from Ostafichuk and Jaeger, 2016).
Pricing
As of April 11, 2022
Either:
- 3.75$ per student/course
- 7$ per user/academic year
- Possibility for custom pricing when scale is high
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