Gradescope Bubble Sheets is an online assignment that allows instructors to create digital multiple-choice answer keys for automatic grading of student submissions. Bubble Sheets assignments can accommodate answer keys up to 200 multiple-choice questions. Creating a Bubble Sheet assignment is easy; instructors can access their Gradescope course dashboard on ICON and create their Bubble Sheets assignment directly in ICON through the Gradescope dashboard. Learn more about Gradescope Bubble Sheets through the resources below.
How-to Guides
- Learn how to create a Bubble Sheets assignments in your Gradescope dashboard.
- The Instructor Guide for Using Gradescope with Canvas simplifies the process of Gradescope's integration into your ICON course.
- Download the Bubble Sheets template to use for all your assignments. The template includes fields for students' names, ID numbers, section, date, and version of the assignment. The template can't be edited to add or remove answer fields.
Important Information
- The UCC Copy Center, located in 2500 University Capitol Centre, is available to instructors to pick up copies of the Gradescope Bubble Sheets template. Completed templates can be taken in person to the Copy Center during their operating hours. The Copy Center staff can scan your completed exams and convert them into a PDF file, which will be emailed to you via OneDrive.
- Alternatively, Bubble Sheets templates can be printed out by instructors in a manner convenient to them. Don't make photocopies of the Bubble Sheets template; directly print the number of templates required.
- Completed assignments may be scanned by instructors using a university department owned scanner or a personal scanner. Scan the completed assignments in full color, no grayscale or black and white. You can't use your personal phone to scan completed assignments as this violates FERPA.
Best Practices
- Ask students to clearly and legibly write their name on their Bubble Sheets assignment to ensure that Gradescope can accurately auto-match a student submission to the correct student in your ICON course. The student's name on the Bubble Sheets assignment must match the name listed on your ICON site for the auto-match to be successful.
- If you choose to reuse Gradescope Bubble Sheets assignments in different semesters, you can copy a previous Gradescope course into a new Gradescope course. This feature significantly simplifies the process of creating new Bubble Sheets assignments each semester.
- If a make-up Bubble Sheets assignment needs to be created, we recommend creating a new version of a Bubble Sheets assignment rather than a new assignment.
- By using Gradescope Bubble Sheets, instructors have the option to determine the visibility of feedback and grades. One option is to allow students to receive the numerical or letter grade of their assignment by releasing grades to the ICON Gradebook. A second option is to allow your students to view feedback and correct answers by publishing grades on Gradescope. To enhance transparency in a Gradescope Bubble Sheets assignment, instructors are encouraged to release grades on ICON and publish grades on Gradescope, providing students with comprehensive access to feedback.
FAQs
You can download the template and print copies on a departmental printer or a personal printer. The UCC Copy Center will also provide template copies that an instructor can pick up in person during operating hours.
You can take your completed templates to the Copy Center in 2500 UCC in person during their business hours, no appointment is needed. The Copy Center staff will scan your assignments for you and send them to you via OneDrive.
Copy Center
2500 University Capitol Centre
200 South Capitol Street
Phone: 319-335-0861
Email: printing-cc3@uiowa.edu
Website: printmail.fo.uiowa.edu
Copy Center staff are onsite Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from noon to 4 p.m. Please email the Copy Center if you need to pick up template copies or scan completed assignments outside of their available hours.
No, batches of submissions can be scanned and uploaded at once to a Gradescope Bubble Sheets assignment. Gradescope will automatically break the batch PDF into individual submissions.
Gradescope can automatically regrade student submissions after an instructors edits the answer key for a Bubble Sheets assignment.
At the beginning of the semester, an instructor will need to sync their Gradescope course to the ICON roster in their ICON site. After this complete, all submissions uploaded to a Bubble Sheets assignment will auto-match to the appropriate student in the roster.
There is not a benchmark number of students or number of submissions that are needed for results to become statistically significant. The more data that is entered, the more that Gradescope will compare against the assigned values.
Yes, TAs can have all the same permissions and access to Gradescope Bubble Sheets as instructors do.
Currently, Gradescope does not provide an option to view assignment statistics and item analysis at an overall assignment level. Instructors can view assignments statistics and item analysis for each individual version of a Bubble Sheets assignment. To learn more about statistics and item analysis provided within a Bubble Sheets assignment, view this Gradescope resource.
The Gradescope knowledge base is full of answers to your questions. It is available at help.gradescope.com.