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Gradescope - Instructor - Link your Canvas course and Sync Rosters [UW-Madison]

This document explains how to link your Canvas course to Gradescope, and how to sync rosters. 

   

Link Gradescope to your Canvas Course

Note: If you create several courses on Gradescope to correspond with a single Canvas course, do not link your Canvas course to Gradescope. This would allow students to enroll in any of the Gradescope courses associated with that Canvas course.

  1. Select Assignments from the Canvas navigation sidebar. 

  2. Select the vertical elipsis (⋮), and select Gradescope from the menu that appears.
    Select the vertical elipsis, and choose Gradescope from the list that appears
  3. Once Gradescope launches, you'll see a message titled Link to Canvas Course.

  4. Choose whether to link to a new or existing Gradescope course.

  5. Select Link Course 
    Link With: either a new Gradescope course or an existing one.

  6. The Course Settings page will open

    1. If this is the first time using Gradescope, a new Gradescope account will be automatically created for you with your NetID.

  7. On the Course Settings page, you can update:

    1. The course title

    2. Course description
      Course name and description on course settings page

    3. Whether to allow regrades
      Choose whether to allow regrades
    4. Rubric settings

    5. Score bounds
      Rubric settings and score bounds

  8. Select the Update Course button. Your course is now linked and your students can access this Gradescope course.
    Select "Update Course"

  9. Next, sync your roster and link your assignment.

    1. Students are automatically added to the Gradescope roster once they select a Gradescope course or assignment link within Canvas.

Sync your roster

  1. On your Gradescope Course Dashboard, select Roster on the left sidebar
    Select Roster from sidebar

  2. On your Roster page in Gradescope, select Sync Roster 
    Select Sync Roster

  3. A dialog box will appear explaining how accounts will be synced from Canvas this will include the following information:

    1. Names

    2. Emails

    3. Student IDs 

    4. User roles

    5. Sections

  4. By default, Gradescope will email users to say that they've been added to the course. If you don't want to send the email, uncheck Let new users know that they were added to the course

  5. Select Sync Roster.
    "Sync With Canvas Roster" window, as described in steps 3-5

Note: If students add/drop in Canvas, be sure to re-sync the roster. Existing submissions/grades for dropped students will be preserved. 

Changing Section Names

To add or change section names after syncing: 

  1. Select More (bottom of Gradescope Roster page) and then Download Roster.
    Select the "more" button at the end of the page and then "download roster"

  2. Add or update section values on the CSV file

  3. Select Add Members
    Select Add Members

  4. Select CSV on the next page
    Select "CSV File" on Add Students and Staff page

  5. Beside Please Select A File, click Select CSV button and choose your file.

  6. Select Next to upload the roster back to Gradescope.
    Choose your CSV file and select Next

Canvas linking and any existing submissions and grades will be preserved as long as emails stay the same. If sections were synced from Canvas and you re-sync your roster, you will lose any customized section names that were manually added.

Other considerations:

  • If you have any problems while syncing your roster, contact the DoIT Help Desk: Get Help from DoIT

  • Course title and description changes made here will only appear in Gradescope, not in Canvas.



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Doc ID:
153857
Owned by:
Learn@UW Madison in Learn@UW
Created:
2025-07-29
Updated:
2025-08-04
Sites:
DoIT Help Desk, Learn@UW