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In addition to the anonymous annotations and grading it would make sense that the next logical step would be to also have anonymous rubric marking. anonymous assessment rubrics* anonymous marking
This is a good idea and seems to be an oversight in the anonymisation feature. If the student can see who awarded marks on the rubric, then they know who marked it. It creates difficulties if you are trying to coordinate further feedback through the coursework lead after the release of marks as they will often directly email the individual who marked it and put pressure on staff and can lead to inconsistent responses to requests.
I agree with the previous comment re:coordination of activity and feedback for grading of assignments and tests. This is an important function to add for users.
This is an issue that needs to be changed. When larger cohorts have a number of markers, the in-text comments, rubric and summative comments should be anonymous, not be dated and timed. Students who's papers are marked and want to query or discuss an issue, grade or comments then follow the process to communicate with the course coordinator / leader as the procedure to follow instead of targeting the marker.
There is a definite need for this feature in some courses/programs. To add a use case: One of the programs at our university has a large number of course assistants and graders. Some of these course assistants are also students in the program and may be in project groups (in other courses) with the students that they're grading. The lack of true anonymity, especially regarding rubrics, can make grading particularly difficult and contentious. This program has a process in place to escalate grade challenges through specific channels (in this case, to head teaching assistants and instructors). With the grader name not being anonymous for rubrics, it opens an opportunity for students to reach out to the individual grader. We considered creating separate accounts for these graders (something like "Grader 1") for use only when grading but it wasn't tenable for this program with so many users frequently changing. It would be really helpful for Anonymous Instructor Annotations to carry over to rubric grading and not be restricted only to comments made in DocViewer.
We are looking for the opposite option to anonymous marking. We have tutors who grade and provide comments using a rubric Our course leaders then review these comments and may provide feedback of their own. This obliges us to add the tutors and course leaders' initials after comments so that it's clear who is providing the feedback.
To accommodate both needs, here are some suggestions for options that could be added to rubric setup.
Show grader’s name in rubric comments?
OFF Grader’s name should not be shown (anonymous grading)
ON Grader’s name should be shown
Show date and time in rubric comments?
OFF Do not show comment date and time
ON Show comment date and time
Allow rubric comments from multiple graders?
OFF Only allow one grader to comment
ON Allow multiple graders to comment
If the display of options 1 and 2 were switched on, the grader’s name, date and time could be shown after the grader’s comments against each rubric criterion, as is currently seen for the overall comments box in SpeedGrader.
If options 1 and 3 were switched on, the comments and names of each grader providing a comment could be shown under each other against each rubric criterion.
