Gradescope Essentials: Programming Assignments & Bubble Sheets

Do you teach courses that require rigorous code evaluation, large-scale multiple-choice exams, or a mix of both? Join our Gradescope training to learn how to streamline your most time-intensive grading tasks.

Designed for instructors, scholars, and teaching assistants managing diverse assessment types, this dual-focus session covers two of Gradescope’s most powerful workflows. You will learn how to automate scoring, maintain academic integrity, and generate deep analytics across both coding projects and traditional bubble sheet exams.

What We Will Cover

Part 1: Programming Assignments

• Autograder Automation: Learn the basics of setting up custom, Docker-based autograders to automatically run student code against your scripts and test cases.

• Advanced Code Review: Blend automation with a human touch using dynamic rubrics and inline annotations to grade code for style, logic, and efficiency.

• Academic Integrity: Utilize the built-in Code Similarity tool to quickly detect plagiarism and visualize copied structures across student submissions.

Part 2: Bubble Sheets

• The Modern Bubble Sheets: Discover how to ditch the legacy department scanning machine and process multiple-choice exams using any standard PDF scanner or camera.

• Flexible Keys & Smart Review: Learn how to build (and easily alter) answer keys post-exam, and let Gradescope automatically flag uncertain student marks for your quick review.

Unified Insights

• Actionable Analytics: Move beyond basic scores. Discover how to use Gradescope’s item analysis and test-case statistics to measure question difficulty, identify failed concepts, and improve the reliability of your future assessments.