Digital Desk, the current solution for Scantron bubble sheets, will be decommissioned for fall 2024, and the Exam Scoring service will be replaced with Gradescope Bubble Sheets. If you are a current Digital Desk/Instructor Tools user, you can still use Digital Desk for the spring and summer 2024 semesters. The Copy Center will still be available to instructors to pick up Gradescope Bubble Sheets and scan exams.
Instructors can find upcoming training sessions on Gradescope Bubble Sheets by visiting the the Office of Teaching, Learning, and Technology's events page.
Exam Scoring offers test scoring and analysis service for objective, multiple-choice examinations. The service provides high levels of reliability, accuracy, and security.
How it works: An instructor gives an exam using the Scantron bubble sheets. Once completed, they complete the Exam Scoring Job Ticket, Exam Scoring Scramble Sheet (if any), and drop the answer key and student sheets off at the Copy Center located in 2500-B UCC. The Copy Center scans the student sheets and makes the reports available to the instructor.
For more information, please visit teach.uiowa.edu/exam-scoring.
Current Status
Maintenance
Past 90 Days
Alert History
The issue has been resolved.
There is currently a problem with the Instructor Tools platform. Users who visit the site will be met with an error and will be unable to access exams within the platform. ITS staff are working with the vendor to resolve the problem.
This issue has been resolved.
Some users may be unable to log into the Instructor Tools platform resulting in a loop at the HawkID login page. ITS Staff are currently working with the vendor to resolve this problem.
Instructor Tools Scheduled Maintenance
Instructor Tools (instructortools.uiowa.edu) will be undergoing maintenance for server updates. This should only impact users while the site is down for 1 to 3 hours. All features in Instructor Tools will be inaccessible during this time.
To ensure service stability, maintenance will be performed on the Instructor Tools website (https://instructortools.uiowa.edu/). The website will be down for about 5 minutes and results or reports will be unavailable during this window.
ITS will be performing maintenance on the Instructor Tools platform to upgrade the servers that power the service.
During the downtime, users will not be able to review/modify exam results or generate reports. Additionally, any exams submitted for scanning in this window will be processed the following day (3/16/2022). Any attempts to connect to Instructor Tools will result in an error message until the maintenance is complete. If you need to review exam results in this window, we ask you to export reports on those exams prior to this window.
To ensure service stability, maintenance will be performed on Instructor Tools. The website will be down for about 5 minutes and any results or reports will be unavailable during this window.
The site instructortools.uiowa.edu and the other exam scoring services will be updated during this time. The service may be momentarily unavailable for short periods as the change is applied.
instructortools.uiowa.edu will be upgraded. Services will be unavailable during this time.