Quick start - your first graded assignment
From blank course to graded submissions, end to end.
This guide walks the full loop once: create an assignment, build a rubric, upload submissions, grade, and get grades out. Each step links to a deeper guide.
1. Create the assignment
From your course, create a new assignment and upload the blank assignment PDF (the template your students filled out). If you have an existing rubric PDF from Gradescope or elsewhere, attach it here too and InteGrade will rebuild the rubric for you automatically. See Creating an assignment and Importing an existing rubric.
2. Build the outline
The outline is the structure of your assignment: questions, subquestions, and point values. For each question, draw a region on the template PDF marking where students write their answer. Those regions power auto-zoom during grading and automatic student matching during upload. See Questions and subquestions and Drawing question regions.
3. Add rubric items
Each question gets rubric items: reusable deductions or credits you apply with one click while grading. Math renders in LaTeX, and you can paste images directly into items. See Writing rubric items.
4. Upload submissions
Drop in whatever you have: a single scanned stack, individual PDFs, photos from phones, even spreadsheets or Word documents. InteGrade normalizes every format, cleans up crooked or faded scans, reads the name on each submission, and matches it to your roster. See Uploading submissions and Bulk scans and automatic matching.
5. Grade
Grade one question at a time across every student. Apply rubric items, leave comments, group identical answers and grade them in one pass. See The grading view.
6. Get grades out
Send finalized grades to the Canvas gradebook, or export a CSV. See Sending grades to Canvas and Exporting grades to CSV.
Keep an eye on the sync status indicator as you work. When it shows everything is saved, you can close your laptop with confidence.