Crowdmark

What Can I Use It For?

Crowdmark is a collaborative online platform for exam administration, grading, data recording and analysis, returning exams and handling regrade requests, and data visualizations of student performance. Contact your divisional representative to enable Crowdmark. The Quercus integration provides features such as roster synchronization, team synchronization, and the ability to export grades from Crowdmark into the Quercus grade book.

Special Notes

Important notice for September 2025.

Crowdmark has changed starting on September 3rd 2025. Accessing Crowdmark for instructors and students is now fully through your Quercus course:

The old method was to login to Crowdmark via their website link.
The new method is to access Crowdmark via your Quercus course.

To add Crowdmark in your Quercus course (once your course has been approved):

Enter the Modules area of your Quercus course.
Select the plus [+] to add an item to a module.
Choose Add “External Tool” from the drop-down list.
Select “Crowdmark LTI” from the list.
Scroll down and ensure that “Load in a new tab” is checked / selected.
Select “Add Item”.

(please consult the instructions below titled “Accessing Crowdmark” for additional details)

Contact your divisional representative for information about licensing and funding and to enable Crowdmark in your course.

Crowdmark will enable the use of the tool in consultation with the divisional representative, not individual instructors. Any instructor who wishes to use Crowdmark should make a request to their relevant divisional representative, or they can send an email to q.help@utoronto.ca to identify their divisional contact.

As per our workflow, the Quercus Help support team will forward the instructor on to the relevant divisional representative. The instructor will discuss the policies and practices with the divisional representative. If the use of Crowdmark is approved, the divisional representative will contact Crowdmark with the course ID and Crowdmark will enable access of the tool for use in the Quercus course. Once the divisional representative receives confirmation from Crowdmark, they should send an email to the Quercus Help team to let them know at q.help@utoronto.ca that Crowdmark has been enabled.

This Academic Toolbox tool helps you...

Assess learning

Typical course activity format:

Asynchronous

Quercus integration

Integrated tool

Where can I get more support?

Crowdmark’s support documentation [vendor]

Divisional Support Contacts

Student Support

Cost

Alternative funding model

Alternative Cost Model Details

Program to cover the cost

How to Get Started

The University of Toronto currently has an agreement with Crowdmark that will make the tool interact with Quercus.

Each division of the University has its own policies and practices regarding access to, use of, and support of Crowdmark. These practices and policies may relate to the financial management of the tool (there is a per-student-per-course licensing cost borne by each division), or they may relate to policies on how exams are managed within a particular department.

Therefore, the Crowdmark tool is not universally available by default. Every request for access to the tool, on a course-by-course basis, renewed each semester, must be approved by the relevant division.

Instructions

Once Crowdmark has been approved for your course, access is through your Quercus course.
1. Enter the Modules area of your Quercus course.
2. Select the plus [+] to add an item to a module.
3. Choose Add “External Tool” from the drop-down list.
4. Select “Crowdmark LTI” from the list.
5. Scroll down and ensure that “Load in a new tab” is checked / selected.
6. Select “Add Item”.
Please note the “Load in a new tab” option may look hidden from your view. There are multiple scroll areas, you might need to scroll to the bottom of both of them to see the option:

Note, the first time you connect to Crowdmark via your Quercus course, it will cause the Crowdmark system to create the Crowdmark version of the course.
The initial instructor can add additional instructors or TAs directly from Quercus. If those users are already enrolled in the Quercus course, the can be added via “Course Team” and “Sync wit LMS” option in Crowdmark.

Otherwise, they can add anyone using the “Add by email” option in your Crowdmark course, on the Course Team page.

Crowdmark’s help documentation provides additional information – Importing team members from Canvas

Users that accessed Crowdmark (via the old API method or new LTI method) can also access Crowdmark via the email option if they use the password recovery tool.
Crowdmark Courses prior to September 3rd 2025 used an old method referenced as API. The current/new method is via LTI as referenced in these instructions.

If you want to see & access old Crowdmark courses, login using the new LTI method (which is via your Quercus course) and change your courses from the “Quercus @ University of Toronto” to “Quercus – API @ University of Toronto” in the drop-down list.

“Migration” is only needed for Fall Crowdmark courses that were created before the switch to LTI. (for example, in August you did a Quercus course copy and accessed Crowdmark using the old method before September 3rd 2025). Crowdmark is managing this migration, no action is required by instructors to migrate a course other than to access Crowdmark once via the new LTI method.

Additional details are available from the FASE ETO page – (September 2025 – Crowdmark integration update)

Guides

Crowdmark’s support documentation at crowdmark.com/help

Student support documentation is available at crowdmark.com/help/categories/support-for-students/

Important notice for September 2025.

Crowdmark will change the way you access it on Sepember 3rd 2025:
- The old method was to login to Crowdmark via their website link.
- The new method will be to access Crowdmark via your Quercus course.
Reference the Crowdmark help documentation Canvas API vs LTI 1.3 to understand the differences around what is changing. For reference, the “API” method is the old method, the “LTI 1.3” features described is the new method starting September 3 2025. (in this help document, when it refers to “Canvas”, it is referencing our Quercus system)

Also consult the resource How does Crowdmark work with LTI 1.3, for a full explanation and detailed outline of how the new Quercus integration works with Crowdmark. (in this help document, when it refers to “LMS”, it is referencing our Quercus system)

Videos

Additional Information From Local Academic Units

Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering (FASE), Education Technology Office (ETO):

Support from FASE’s Education Technology Office / Crowdmark

University of Toronto Mississauga Library (UTM):

Using Crowdmark at UTM

Faculty of Arts & Science:

Crowdmark in A&S

Last Modified:

4 December, 2025

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