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Toronto, Ontario, Canada (March 10, 2020) At Crowdmark, we’re concerned about how COVID-19 is impacting our community of students and educators. We recognize the immense costs that school closures – even when temporary – carry for communities, ranging from interrupted learning to social isolation. In order to support our community...

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OTTAWA, Ontario — The Canadian Mathematical Society (CMS) is pleased to announce the results of the 2017 Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge, supported by the Actuarial Profession, in particular the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) and the…

TORONTO, June 12, 2017 /CNW/ – Ricoh Canada Inc. today announced the addition of Crowdmark’s advanced testing and grading solution to its Education solutions portfolio. The announcement was made today at the Canadian Association of University Business...

TORONTO, May 18, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The University of Waterloo, one of North America’s leading research universities, marked the end of its April 2017 exam period by having four million paper-based assessments—enough to reach...

Distributing, collecting, grading and returning paper-based coursework can be time-consuming and inefficient. Exams are often marked by teams of teaching assistants and instructors, but collaboration and ensuring consistency is difficult…

While much has been said about tablets in the classroom and students who can’t write cursive, education technology goes beyond those basics. It’s a rapidly growing tool in lecture halls, filling the gap left by...

Two-stage exam format may introduce a valuable alternative to traditional exams TORONTO, Oct. 21, 2015 /CNW/ – Working with five leading universities in North America during 2014-15, Crowdmark, Inc., a collaborative online grading and analytics...

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (August 5, 2015) Crowdmark, Inc., the education technology company that created the world’s first online collaborative grading and analytics platform, today announced that Department of Mathematics at Northwestern University has selected Crowdmark to...

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (July 9, 2015) Crowdmark, Inc., the education technology company that created the world’s first online collaborative grading and analytics platform, today announced that the University of Waterloo has selected Crowdmark to improve their...

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (June 4, 2015) Crowdmark, Inc., the education technology company that created the world’s first online collaborative grading and analytics platform, today announced that the University of Toronto is making Crowdmark available to select...

What started as a “logistical nightmare” – marking 5,000 exams with just 100 graders for the 2011 Canadian Open Mathematics Challenge (COMC) – has evolved into a rapidly growing start-up with global market potential. Founded...

There is something that has annoyed me about my blog for quite a while now which is the length of some of my posts. While I am aware that people are time poor and want...

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (May 22, 2014) Crowdmark, Inc., the EdTech company that created the world’s first online collaborative grading and analytics platform, today announced that the USC Viterbi School of Engineering Distance Education Network, DEN@Viterbi, has...

Toronto, Ontario, CANADA (May 21, 2014) The Education Division of the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) showcased some of the newest and most innovative products in the education technology market, and recognized the best among...

Crowdmark among 10 education technology trailblazers to be featured at the 2014 Education Industry Summit Toronto, Ontario, CANADA (April 30, 2014) Crowdmark, Inc., the EdTech company that created the world’s first online collaborative grading and analytics...

As a rule, teachers are enthusiastic about forming young minds and putting their energies toward bettering the next generation. As another rule, teachers hate marking, and they hate it with the heat of a thousand...

When Raymond Laflamme first met Howard Burton, the founding executive director of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, he was sure he was being set up by the FBI. The year was 1999, and in...

Where content was arguably once king, in 2014 content is ubiquitous. Sitting in a Beijing Starbucks at on a winter morning in 2007, borderline delirious from lack of sleep, I had a vision of the...

Despite A Limited Sample Size UTEST Insists on Building Great Startups The students, faculty and recent grads at the University of Toronto sure do have it nice. After all, they’re eligible to apply for the...

Toronto, Ontario (January 20, 2014) – Crowdmark Inc., a software company that delivers an ultra-scalable collaborative assessment platform to educators worldwide, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Ricoh Canada Inc., to...

Dr. Abdul Waheed Khan, an internationally recognized leader in the application of information and communications technology for education and development, has joined the Crowdmark Board of Advisors. Dr. Khan will advise Crowdmark on strategy and...

Crowdmark announces the hiring of three new employees to our team: Jamie Gilgen, Murray Marven and Sandra O’Reilly. Feedback from early users improved our online collaborative grading platform and allowed Crowdmark to recently graduate from beta deployment....

We are excited to announce that Crowdmark has moved out of beta today. Crowdmark helps educators, working alone or in teams, to evaluate and respond to student work better. Crowdmarking provides a cloud-based workflow...

A new online grading tool is now available to simplify the process of marking paper assignments at the university level. The idea for the tool, named Crowdmark, came to founder James Colliander in 2011 in...

U of T mathematics professor James Colliander’s startup, Crowdmark, is poised to revolutionize exam marking and eliminate hours of inefficiency through a new tool developed with the help of several of U of T’s entrepreneurship...

A mathematics professor has 5,280 exams to mark. The exam is 16 pages long and divided into three sections – each of which must be graded by a different person. Each exam is stapled together,...

As PEHub Canada reports, there is a new EdTech entrant, this time hailing from Canada: Crowdmark. The company offers to cut the time educators spend on grading the students’ exams and grades. Founded in 2012...

It perhaps takes a university professor with tech savvy to invent an online company that helps teachers to grade students better. That description fits James Colliander, a math professor at the University of Toronto, who...

Despite the rapid changes in today’s society, education, knowledge and certification will continue to be critical conditions for everyone looking for employment in the network and knowledge society. To learn, to know and to know...

Toronto-based educational startup Crowdmark pitched at Jason Calacanis’ LaunchEdu yesterday as one of about 20 companies selected to showcase solutions. Crowdmark appeared on Techvibes two weeks ago when it was revealed that the company had…

It is the bane of every teacher’s existence: grading. Though essential, it’s also repetitive and time-consuming. It is also increasingly prone to concerns about inequity: from grade inflation to inconsistent standards across different classrooms, sometime…

Toronto-based Crowdmark Inc., an education technology startup, has raised $600,000 in seed stage financing from the University of Toronto Early-Stage Technology (UTEST) program, MaRS Innovation, the University of Toronto’s Connaught Fund, RIC Ce…

CROWDMARK: $600K seed round to Toronto, ON-based Crowdmark from a crowd of investors and programs, including University of Toronto (UT) Early-Stage Technology (UTEST), MaRS Innovation, UT’s Connaught Fund and others, reports Canada Newswire. The two-year…

Set down the heavy pile of paper and cap the red pens. Crowdmark Inc., an online Canadian education technology start-up, is on its way to revolutionizing the way teachers administer and grade exams. Based out...

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 in seed funding through...

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...

Students aren’t the only ones who fret over finals and exams. Just ask any professor or TA, or better yet: see how their their arms and wrists feel by the time they’re done grading. James...

Ever have trouble making group decisions? What if there was software that makes the process less painful by gathering preferences and facilitating data-driven decisions that maximize value for everyone? Hate job interviews? What if you...

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