Anonymous Grading in Canvas

Anonymous grading is currently a course opt-in feature, and you can enable it at the course level and create assignments that use this feature. If anonymous grading is not enabled as a course-level feature option, you can still enable anonymous grading in SpeedGrader on a per-assignment basis at any time. 

Notes:

• Anonymous grading is not available for graded discussions.

• Go to Settings in your course navigation bar.

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• Navigate to Feature Options tab.

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• Enable anonymous grading in In the Feature Options tab.

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• Navigate to Assignments [1] in your course navigation bar.

• Click + Assignment [2] to create an assignment.

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• Enter the assignment name, description, and other relevant information. Then scroll down to the Anonymous grading section and check the box.

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• Save and Publish the assignment.

If anonymous grading is not enabled as a feature option in your course, you still can enable anonymous grading in SpeedGrader on a per-assignment basis at any time.

Note: Hiding names in SpeedGrader does not affect names in the Gradebook.

However, student IDs still display in the SpeedGrader URL unless you enable anonymous grading using the approach above. Additionally, students can still see their grades. To hide assignment grades, you may need to hide them manually in SpeedGrader.

• Open SpeedGrader from any assignment, graded discussion, or quiz.

• Click the Settings icon [1]. In the settings drop-down menu, click the Options link [2].

• To hide the student names, click the Hide student names in the SpeedGrader checkbox.

  Note: If the checkbox to hide student names is not visible in SpeedGrader settings, anonymous grading has been enabled for the assignment.

• Click the Save Settings button.

• View the student drop-down menu and verify that all student names are hidden. Student names display as generic names such as Student 1, Student 2, etc.

You can add annotations and comments in DocViewer when Anonymous Grading is enabled. If you want to use DocViewer tools and create anonymous comments in the submission, you can enable Anonymous Instructor Annotations in your assignment instead.

• Navigate to the assignment.

• In the Assignment settings, click Anonymous instructor annotations checkbox.