Gradescope

What Can I Use It For?

Gradescope 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 Gradescope.

Special Notes

Gradescope access is changing slightly starting on May 11th 2026. Accessing Gradescope for instructors and students will be through your Quercus course only:

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

Please consult the Arts & Science information Gradescope in A&S for a full description of changes.

Past course materials remain available, only the access method is changing. Instructors whose Gradescope account email does not match their Quercus email will need to merge accounts before they can see their existing courses. Please see additional information below regarding this change.

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

Gradescope will enable the use of the tool in consultation with the divisional representative, not individual instructors.

Any instructor who wishes to use Gradescope 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 Gradescope is approved, the divisional representative will contact Gradescope to complete the contracting and licensing process. Once a contract is in place, the divisional representative will send an email to the central Quercus Help team at q.help@utoronto.ca to enable integration with Quercus. Please note that access to Gradescope is supported via Quercus only.

This Academic Toolbox tool helps you...

Assess Learning

Typical course activity format:

Asynchronous

Quercus integration

Integrated tool

Where can I get more support?

Gradescope Guides [vendor]

Divisional Support Contacts

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 Gradescope 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 Gradescope. 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 Gradescope 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

Account Email Matching and Merging:
- Gradescope access is through Quercus using your default Quercus email.
- If you have an old Gradescope account with a different than the email address listed in Quercus, you will not see you existing courses when launching Gradescope through Quercus.
- The fix is to merge your accounts: Merging Accounts and Unmerging Accounts – Gradescope Guides
  - (this is only required if your Quercus email does not match the email used to create account in Gradescope prior to May 8 2026)
Link your Quercus course to the corresponding Gradescope course:
- When accessing Gradescope from your Quercus course, select “existing course” if you already have content in Gradescope.
NOTE: Before using Gradescope , you must connect with your local divisional support to determine if Gradescope is supported.

Gradescope assignments are now initiated from Quercus → Assignments → “…” (ellipsis) menu.

On first use in a course, instructors will be prompted to either: Connect to an existing Gradescope course, or Create a new Gradescope course.

Note that Sync direction matters. Due dates, section assignments, and assignment titles sync from Quercus to Gradescope, not the reverse. Instructors should make these changes on the Quercus side.

Guides

- Gradescope Instructor Guides
  - Creating and linking your assignments
- Gradescope Student Guides

Additional Information From Local Academic Units

Arts & Science

Gradescope in A&S

Last Modified:

7 May, 2026

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