Connecting Crowdmark to your Moodle course allows you to seamlessly sync your student roster and push final grades directly into your Moodle Gradebook. Setting up this connection correctly from the start prevents the most common grading sync errors.
Here is how to add a Crowdmark assessment to your course page and configure the grading settings.
(more…)Note: This tutorial completes the local Moodle-specific documentation series. It should be published as the final step in the Crowdmark workflow, guiding instructors on how to push their completed evaluations back to the Moodle Gradebook.
Once your grading team has finished evaluating all submissions in Crowdmark, the final step is to push those scores directly into your Moodle Gradebook. Because you set up the connection using Moodle’s External Tool, this process requires just a few clicks.
Before you begin, ensure that grading is 100% complete in Crowdmark. Pushing grades multiple times is possible, but it is best practice to perform a final sync once all evaluations are complete.
You must initiate the grade sync from inside the Crowdmark interface, not from Moodle.
1.Navigate to the Results panel:
Open your assessment in Crowdmark. In the left-hand sidebar menu, click on Results.
2.Click Export to LMS:LTI 1.3 Integration feature.
In the upper right corner of the Results page, click the Export to LMS button. (If your roster was not synced properly initially, this button might prompt you to sync your roster first).
3.Confirm the Export:
A confirmation window will appear showing how many grades are about to be sent to Moodle. Click Export grades to confirm. Crowdmark will display a success message once the transmission is complete.
[Screenshot placeholder: The Crowdmark Results page with a highlighted box around the ‘Export to LMS’ button]
Troubleshooting Tip: If a student’s grade fails to export, verify that they have an active account in your Moodle course and that their Moodle email matches their Crowdmark email exactly. If they were manually added to Crowdmark with a personal email, their grade will not sync.
After Crowdmark confirms the export, you should immediately check your Moodle Gradebook to ensure the numbers transferred correctly.
1.Open the Moodle Gradebook:
Return to your Moodle course page. In the main course navigation menu, click on Grades to open the Grader report.
2.Locate the Assessment Column:
Find the column matching the name of your Crowdmark activity.
3.Verify the Scores:The Maximum Grade check.
Check that the student scores appear correctly and that the column total matches your expectations.
[Screenshot placeholder: The Moodle Grader report showing the populated Crowdmark grade column]
If you notice that a student who scored 30/40 in Crowdmark appears as 30/100 (or 75/100) in Moodle, there is a mismatch between the assessment totals.
How to fix it:
Once you have successfully added your Crowdmark activity to Moodle and synced your student roster, the heavy lifting is done! From this point forward, you will be working directly inside the Crowdmark platform to build, deliver, and grade your assessments.
Crowdmark’s interface is designed to be intuitive and flexible. To help you get the most out of their tools, we have curated the most helpful guides directly from the official Crowdmark Help Center. Whether you are running an in-person paper exam or an online assignment, the resources below will walk you through exactly what you need to know.
When you first launch your assessment, Crowdmark will ask you to choose a format.
Crowdmark makes it easy to build your assessments, offering multiple-choice questions, text entries, and file uploads. You can also format your text with bolding, lists, and even mathematical equations.
If you are running an Administered paper exam, Crowdmark uses a unique QR-code system to keep everyone’s pages perfectly organized.
This is where Crowdmark really shines. The grading dashboard is built for speed and consistency, especially if you are working with a team of TAs.
It is always helpful to know what your students are seeing. When an assessment is ready, direct your students to click the Crowdmark link located inside your Moodle course.
Need help with the Moodle side of things? If you are having trouble syncing your students or pushing your final grades back into your Moodle Gradebook, head back to our local Moodle Answers tutorials:
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.
https://crowdmark.com/help/choosing-an-assessment-type/ (more…)
Crowdmark introduced a new interface back in the summer of 2023, but they have updated it again in October of 2025. All the same functions and features, but to give you more canvas space when grading, some features have been combined or appear in different menus.
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.
(more…)1. Crowdmark allows you to choose extra settings for your multiple-choice questions. Click “Settings.”
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.
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.
