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| Rationale |
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| Numerous studies that have proven that instructor bias can influence the evaluation of a student’s work. We already have the ability to hide names in Speedgrader, but this feature will allow Admins to set this control at the account, sub-account, or course level. |
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As an Admin, I can ensure teachers in my account or sub-account grade assignments anonymously. I will also be able to audit how assignments were graded if needed. |
| Timeline |
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| End of Year |
Will this feature also make it possible for the grader (as opposed to the student) to be anonymous? The use case we have in mind is for student graders/TAs -- we don't want the students who know who has graded their work for privacy concerns. I saw a similar Feature Idea (https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/1142) had been archived, but I cannot tell if it's possible that this functionality will be rolled into this feature.
Thank you John Thomson for a very thoughtful feature idea: Anonymous Graders
Hi Nina Fox -- I THINK that the option for graders to be anonymous will also be rolled into this feature: Anonymous Graders, which proposes that idea, is also marked as "In Development."
Anonymous grading will remove the students name from the drop down in speedgrader. Is a student puts his or her name in the document content, the name will still be viewable by the teacher during grading. for the initial release, there will not be a way to hide the name of the individual who graded the assignment, but we are considering this feature for future development.
Hi I am just wondering if there is an ETA on the development of this feature? We need this functionality for our medical exams to ensure there is no bias in marking - its actually really important to us for auditing as we need to prove the marker is unable to see the students names. Our only alternative is to export all student submissions and de-identify them and grade offline.
Bump - anyone?
Yes, we need this for our law school!
Thank you all for the great questions and feedback. Hopefully I can help:
- The Anonymous Grading will only be available in SpeedGrader initially. We are happy to talk to customers to understand other ways we can help remove bias from grading.
- Upon initial release, only the student name will be hidden. I have talked to one or two schools who have expressed some interest in the double-blind grading, but I have not seen interest from most of our customers for this enhancement. There is already a feature request addressing this idea: Anonymous Graders
- This feature will be available in the production environment by the December 12th release.
-Cosme
Hi Cosme Salazar: Thank you for this update. Can you clarify some details? You state that in the initial release only the student name will be hidden. Your last line indicates that this feature will be available in the production environment by the December 12th release -- which feature do you mean? Hiding student names? Or hiding the grader's names (the Anonymous Graders feature idea in the line above)?
A faculty member just asked about this, so I'd love to be able to pass along some news.
Thanks in advance for the clarification!
Cosme Salazar, I'd like to ask for more clarification as well.
Will the grader name be hidden/removed/replaced from all instances of where it might show up? I believe it can show in the speedgrader, in notifications, linked from the class main page (Recent Feedback), the user's Grades page and the submission details page.
It seems that if something is graded anonymously (grader can't see the student name), then there should at least be an option so that the student can't see the grader name.
Thanks in advance.
Ed
Find more information about this feature in the following release notes:
It's mentioned that this is auditable--can you show me how you can see that an instructor has muted, edited grade in gradebook next to exposed name, and unmuted? If not, I've put in a feature request:When Anonymous Grading is on, hide Student Name in Gradebook
Second, I think the following is an overlooked bug, but I added as feature request:
When Anonymous Grading is on, don't add student name to filename in bulk downloaded files
on Jul 6, 2015
Will this feature only work in speed grader? That is to ask... If as an instructor, one downloads a file will they be able to identify the student in any way?