Digital Desk has been decommissioned, and the Exam Scoring service has been replaced with Gradescope Bubble Sheets.
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.
How it works:
- 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 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 by instructors. 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.
For more information, visit teach.its.uiowa.edu/gradescope/gradescope-bubble-sheets.
Current Status
Maintenance
Past 90 Days
Alert History
The issue has been resolved.
There is currently a problem with the Instructor Tools platform. Users who visit the site will be met with an error and will be unable to access exams within the platform. ITS staff are working with the vendor to resolve the problem.
This issue has been resolved.
Some users may be unable to log into the Instructor Tools platform resulting in a loop at the HawkID login page. ITS Staff are currently working with the vendor to resolve this problem.
Instructor Tools Scheduled Maintenance
Instructor Tools (instructortools.uiowa.edu) will be undergoing maintenance for server updates. This should only impact users while the site is down for 1 to 3 hours. All features in Instructor Tools will be inaccessible during this time.
To ensure service stability, maintenance will be performed on the Instructor Tools website (https://instructortools.uiowa.edu/). The website will be down for about 5 minutes and results or reports will be unavailable during this window.
ITS will be performing maintenance on the Instructor Tools platform to upgrade the servers that power the service.
During the downtime, users will not be able to review/modify exam results or generate reports. Additionally, any exams submitted for scanning in this window will be processed the following day (3/16/2022). Any attempts to connect to Instructor Tools will result in an error message until the maintenance is complete. If you need to review exam results in this window, we ask you to export reports on those exams prior to this window.
To ensure service stability, maintenance will be performed on Instructor Tools. The website will be down for about 5 minutes and any results or reports will be unavailable during this window.
The site instructortools.uiowa.edu and the other exam scoring services will be updated during this time. The service may be momentarily unavailable for short periods as the change is applied.
instructortools.uiowa.edu will be upgraded. Services will be unavailable during this time.