About Our Partner
GradeCam provides the industry-leading scanning and form technology embedded directly within Performance Matters. This integration allows educators to instantly transform their phone or any web or document camera into a grading station, capturing data from paper-based assessments that appears immediately within the Performance Matters environment. For districts seeking a unified assessment experience, GradeCam also offers a seamless integration for Schoology Learning through its Gradient assessment platform, ensuring consistent, high-powered grading across your entire digital ecosystem.
Integration Description
GradeCam + Performance Matters
The GradeCam integration transforms PowerSchool Performance Matters into a high-speed data capture hub, allowing educators to bridge the gap between paper-based assessment and digital analytics. This native integration is built directly into the Performance Matters workflow, enabling teachers to use any web or document camera to scan assessments and see results appear in their reports within minutes. By eliminating manual data entry and third-party uploads, GradeCam ensures that district-level data is both accurate and immediately actionable.
Integration Highlights:
- Native Workflow Integration: GradeCam is a built-in option within Performance Matters test settings. Once enabled, teachers can print GradeCam-compatible scan sheets directly from the Proctoring or Test Center screens, maintaining a single-platform experience.
- Hardware Flexibility: Our industry-leading scanning technology works with the equipment teachers already have, whether using a mobile device, a laptop, or a document camera.
- Sustainable Assessment Options: To reduce printing costs and waste, the integration supports Reusable Scan Sheets. Districts can print and laminate a set of forms once; students use markers to bubble in responses, and teachers scan them for instant scoring before erasing them for the next period.
- Robust Question Support: The integration supports up to 40 Choice/Multi-Response questions, or 3 Short Answer/Essay questions per sheet, and custom answer sets. This flexibility allows Performance Matters users to maintain high standards for assessment design without sacrificing the speed of automated grading.
Gradient by GradeCam + Schoology
GradeCam also offers a robust assessment solution in Gradient, which allows for integration with Schoology Learning to create a unified assessment workflow. Educators can effortlessly map Schoology assignments to new or existing Gradient assessments, enabling students to access their tests directly within the Schoology interface. This linking ensures a frictionless experience for students, while teachers benefit from automated grade passback, instantly populating the Schoology gradebook as soon as an assessment is scored or a paper form is scanned, eliminating the need for manual data entry or CSV imports.
Gradient teachers can manage online access windows to ensure assessments are only visible when intended, providing a disciplined testing environment. For high-stakes evaluations, Gradient supports Lockdown Browser restrictions directly within the Schoology-mapped assignments. This combination of “any-camera” paper scanning and secure online testing makes Gradient by GradeCam the most versatile and easy-to-use assessment partner for the PowerSchool ecosystem.
Integration Highlights
- Seamless Assignment Mapping: Effortlessly link Schoology course materials to new or existing Gradient assessments, allowing for instant synchronization of content and rosters.
- Automated Grade Passback: Eliminate manual data entry with real-time scoring that automatically populates the Schoology gradebook as soon as a student submits their work online or on paper.
- Advanced Access Controls: Maintain assessment integrity by setting specific online access windows, ensuring students only access assignments exactly when intended.
- Secure Testing Environment: Deploy Lockdown Browser restrictions directly through the mapped Schoology interface to prevent digital distractions and maintain high-stakes testing standards.
The “Hybrid” Advantage: Support both digital learners and paper-based students in a single Schoology course by using GradeCam’s industry-leading scanning technology to bridge the gap.