Crowdmark in A&S

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Crowdmark is a collaborative online grading platform available at the Faculty of Arts & Science. The University has a vendor agreement in place with Crowdmark, but units are responsible for covering the cost of using the tool. If you cannot locate the Crowdmark LTI add-in in your course as described below, it may mean that your unit has not enabled the tool. Please inquire with your unit's Associate Chair or business officer to confirm if this is the case. If you have an agreement, but cannot find the add-in, please contact us at teachinglearning.artsci@utoronto.ca.

How does it work?

Crowdmark facilitates grading paper-based assessments online. Completed exams are scanned by the instructional team and made available on a cloud-based platform for grading by one or more graders. Group grading, comment libraries, annotations and anonymous grading are key features of this system.

Crowdmark adds unique QR codes to your uploaded exam scripts which enable scanning of the completed exams papers in any order. Upon scanning, the exams are arranged into the correct order based on the QR codes.

Crowdmark refers to QR-coded, paper-based assessments as Administered Assessments Links to an external site..

Crowdmark can also be used with non-QR-coded assessments Links to an external site., but these must be scanned in order.

Bubble Sheets

Crowdmark also allows generating bubble sheets for multiple choice assessments. You may be familiar with these under the Scantron brand name. These can be appended to assessments or used as the sole method of responding to a 'multiple choice-only' assessment. Using multiple choice questions in Crowdmark booklets Links to an external site..

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Access

As of September 3rd 2025 access to Crowdmark is accomplished via a link to an external tool added to a module in your course. 

From the Modules section, and in any module, click the + icon (1).

Select External Tool from the dropdown menu (2), choose Crowdmark LTI (3), ensure that Load in a new tab is selected (4) (Crowdmark will not open if this option is not selected), and press Add Item (5).

Ensure you publish the module and the LTI link (6). Students will not be able to access Crowdmark without this step.

Accessing Previous Courses

To access courses and material created prior to the new LTI login method, click "All courses" (1) in the top left of the Crowdmark interface then use the dropdown menu to select 'Quercus @ University of Toronto' (2), which will display all courses linked to Crowdmark prior to the LTI integration being activated on September 3rd 2025.

Support

Crowdmark provides their own user support and help resources at Crowdmark's User Support Page. 

Students can find support on Crowdmark's student support page

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How does it work?

• The Crowdmark integration with Quercus is limited to importing the class list and grading team, and then exporting scores to the Quercus gradebook.  

• Students can submit assignments and also review grades and feedback for all of their courses in one place.

• For the student submissions and grades, it is intended that instructors manage all of this within Crowdmark. Students cannot submit Crowdmark assessments via a regular Quercus Assignment.

How do students access Crowdmark?

• Students access Crowdmark via an LTI link placed in a module by the teaching team.
• Students are taken to their Crowdmark portfolio where they can view any upcoming due dates for Crowdmark assignments for all of their courses.
• Crowdmark sends emails with links for students to access their assignments and grades.

How do I get technical help?

• Instructors are advised to email support@crowdmark.com if they run into any technical issues.

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