Crowdmark to save teacher marking time and government dollars
Ed-tech start-up completes successful EQAO and Canadian Open Math Challenge pilots TORONTO, June 11, 2013 /CNW/ – Crowdmark Inc., a Canadian education technology start-up, is positioned to save cash-strapped Departments of Education millions by making massive-scale testing more efficient. Crowdmark has raised $600,000 in seed funding through the University of Toronto Early-Stage Technology (UTEST) program, MaRS Innovation and U […]
K-6 teacher testimonials validate Crowdmark
In May, we ran a successful Crowdmark EQAO marking pilot at Golf Road Junior Public School. Joseph Romano, who led the pilot at the school, wrote that Crowdmark cut teachers’ marking time in half and provided a smooth, easy-to-use interface to facilitate both individual and group marking from home. Through the demo, we received additional feedback […]
Crowdmark completes successful EQAO demonstration
A teacher’s inside look at the Golf Road Junior Public School pilot The Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO is a Crown agency of the government of Ontario that administers province-wide standardized tests to all public school students in grades 3, 6, 9 and 10. Crowdmark was recently used by groups of teachers at Golf Road Junior […]
Sneak peeks of the marking interface
The Crowdmark software development team is cranking away, building tools to help teachers grade better with our easy-to-use marking interface. The entire workflow is compatible with touch screen devices, and the marker history view allows markers to page back through their past work. Upcoming features include
The promise of Crowdmark
Fundamental institutional transformation rarely comes from within the institutions themselves. It is generally a result of extreme external pressure or disruptive technological innovation. This is perhaps most true of universities, which are inherently among the most conservative institutions in any society. American universities, especially public universities, are under greater pressure to change than at anytime […]
Independent schools and K-12
I was an independent school teacher. In my career, I’ve taught grades 7-12, English, Economics, Political Science, American Studies, and more. I was a house director, supervising up to 80 boys in the residence, coaching a sport every term, doing campus supervisory duty, even selling hot dogs every weekend with the boys to raise money […]
Idea to prototype
Inspiration The inspiration for Crowdmark was the logistical nightmare of grading the 2011 Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge (COMC). Imagine banker boxes and banker boxes, each containing FedEx envelopes containing tens of exams, with each exam containing 14 pages of hand-written answers to mathematics contest problems. We used skilled human volunteers to assess 70,000 pages of […]