Syncing Assessment Data to Brightspace

This article will go through the steps to sync Assessment data into your Brightspace portal. This article assumes your Brightspace account is already connected to your PaperScorer account. If you haven't already connected your two accounts, please read our help documentation on how to connect your Brightspace account to your PaperScorer account.

Generating Import Data in PaperScorer

From the dashboard, click on the Assessments main navigation option.

After clicking on the assessment main navigation option, you will be taken to your list of available assessments within the PaperScorer platform. Identify the assessment you want to sync. Once you have identified the assessment you want to sync, click on the action menu for that assessment. From the action menu click on the Sync data option. The sync data option will only be visible if the assessment has scanned sheets associated to it.

After selecting the data sync option from the assessment action menu dropdown, you will be presented with another modal to select a method for syncing data to an assignment. Select the Brightspace sync option. (You may see additional options in the screenshot below.)

After clicking on the Brightspace sync option, a new modal will pop up asking for an assignment title. If an assignment with that title exists, it will map scores for those users into that assignment. If an assignment with that title doesn't exists, you will have an option to create a new assignment at the time of import.

After inputting an assignment title, click on the Export data button to process the assessment data. After the assessment data has been processed, you will be presented with a download button to download the CSV file. Click on the Download file button.

Uploading Scores to a Brightspace Class Grade Book

Once you log into your Brightspace account, select a class to import scores into a grade book. From the class dashboard, select the Grades sub-navigation option.

After the class grade book loads, click on the Import button.

On the next import grades screen, you will see an import/upload form to select the new created CSV file.

1. Import File (required): This is the file that was created in previous steps through the PaperScorer applications.
2. Item Creation (optional): If the assignment name you input on a previous step matches an assignment in the class, you do NOT need to activate this option. If you have NOT created the assignment yet, activate this option, and you will be able to dynamically create an assignment.
3. Click the Continue button to move on to the next step.

After clicking the continue button, you will have an opportunity to review any import errors. If there are no errors or errors can be ignored, click the Continue button.

The final data sync step is the preview import screen. This will give you an opportunity to review the imported data and how it will impact student scores. If everything looks good, click on the Import button to complete the data sync process.

After the import process is completed, you will be returned to the grade book for the class.