Crowdmark

Importing Team Members from Moodle to Crowdmark

1. To add members such as graders or facilitators to your Crowdmark Team, Click “Team.”

2. Click “Customize team”

3. You can sync your Moodle course’s teaching assistants and lab coordinators to your grading team in Crowdmark.

Click “course.”

4. Click “Sync with Moodle”

5. Choose what their roles will be in Crowdmark.

6. Once you have assigned roles to your team members, click “Update team.”

7. Sometimes, your graders are not part of your Moodle roster. In that case, you will want to add those users to your team using the steps below.

Tip: Instructors can use a secondary email to add themselves as graders. Taking this action can help with troubleshooting issues for the graders.

8. In the Team window, Click “Add by email

9. Click the “Type (or paste) your team members’ email addresses in the field on the page. Put one address on each line.

10. Once you have entered the email addresses, Click “Continue.”

11. Click “Add 1 team member.”

12. You will now see your team member added to the roster.

Create text answer questions in Crowdmark for exams

1. Once you add questions to your assessment, note that you can have students complete a text entry assessment.

2. Choose “Text answer question” from the drop-down menu to switch to a text answer question.

You have the same editing options as other types of questions.

2. Click the “Question” field and enter your text.

That’s all there is to creating a text entry question

Creating Multiple-choice Questions in Moodle with Crowdmark

1. Crowdmark allows you to choose extra settings for your multiple-choice questions. Click “Settings.”

2. Two options are available in the drop-down menu. Students can select ONE or ALL correct answers.

A) You can set up a question where students must select ALL that apply to the question or statement or;

B) the question can have multiple correct answers, but the student only needs to select ONE of the correct answers, NOT ALL;

Alternatively, you can have the students choose ONE correct answer, and you will only have ONE correct answer identified.

5. Click this icon.

6. Choose how many(If any) points the student will lose for choosing one of the wrong answers.

Remember to click “Save” to confirm and lock in your changes.

Making Image/PDF Questions in Crowdmark

1. Click “add a question” and enter a label for the question if you wish for something different than the default.

2. Choose “Image/PDF question” from the question type drop-down menu.

3. Choose how many points your question will be worth.

4. Click in the question field and enter your question or prompt. You can attach files, link websites, and use other formatting options. Click on the formatting tips below the Question field.

Adding a Crowdmark Activity in Moodle

1. Go to the topic you wish to add the activity to.

2. Click “Add an activity or resource.”

3. Choose External Tool from the menu of choices.

4. Click the “Activity name” field, and enter a name for the activity.

5. Click the Preconfigured tool dropdown menu.

6. Choose Crowdmark Assessment from the menu.

7. Click “Grade,” then modify the Maximum Grade so it is equivalent to the grade that will come from Crowdmark.

8. If you grade a Crowdmark assessment out of 15 but forget to change the maximum grade to 15 in Moodle, you must do so before syncing all the grades to Moodle. You may run into errors when syncing your grades if you do not.

9. If you have different categories in Moodle’s grade area, you can choose the category to which the assessment belongs.

10. You are all finished the Moodle portion of the Crowdmark assessment setup

Tip: This tutorial set up the connection between Crowdmark and Moodle. You will still need to add questions to the assessment. This can be done when you click the Crowdmark assessment on the main course page.

A new Crowdmark window opens up. You can add questions and set the distribution factors in that window.

Creating a Crowdmark Assessment

The following tutorials will teach you how to set up and assessment using Crowdmark.

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Matching Grade Maximums with Crowdmark and Moodle

Making sure the grade maximum in Moodle is the same as the grade maximum in Crowdmark. 

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Administered or Assigned Assessments

 There are two types of assessments available in Crowdmark. Administered and Assigned. 

There are two types of assessments available in Crowdmark. Administered and Assigned. You will want to choose an Assigned assessment. The link below describes the difference between the two.

Syncing your Crowdmark and Moodle Rosters

This tutorial will walk you through the steps you need to take to sync the Crowdmark and Moodle Rosters.

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