View grade distribution including unposted grades (anonymous submissions)

[VPundir]

A colleague has alerted me into a peculiar issue that I haven't seen before.

What we'd like to do is get a sense of the grade distribution and, preferably, a list of students with their respective grades to that this information is available to the Moderator so they can pick out a sample which represents a wide range of scores, BEFORE we post the scores for the students to see.

On the face of it, it seems simple: I was quite confident that I'd see the scores in the gradebook, or at least the gradebook export. But I don't.

The assignment is a graded anonymous submission assignment.

We are able to access the submissions in SpeedGrader, and have scored/ graded/ marked the assignment therein. Naturally, we can see the scores there on a per student basis, as well as the average score in the top bar.

We have not posted the grades for the students to see yet, because these need to be moderated before that.

But these unposted grades are not visible in either the Gradebook or the csv export of the Gradebook. Row 2 in the export for the assignment's column says "Manual Posting (scores hidden from instructors)", which is quite strange. My initial instinct was that this might be because the assignment is anonymous, so we see the grade in Speedgrader for anonymous students (Student 5, Student 6, etc), while in Gradebook since student names appear, therefore the unposted grades are not shown. But I don't see a way of turning off student names (and removing other/graded assignments from the view) either in Gradebook.

I should add that in New Analytics I do not see a data point for this assignment. The assignment is listed on the x axis, with the note "No data".

Any hints, insights, solutions and workarounds would be greatly appreciated.

[chriscas]

Hi @VPundir,

I believe you're correct that it's the anonymous grading option that's coming in to play here.  I'm not an expert in anonymous grading, because it's rarely used at my university, but I do know that posting the grades will de-anonymize everything and likely show the stats.  With that being said, I understand that this is also a moderated assignment and you want to use stats for the moderation process.  I think that may be an edge case that's going to be difficult to account for, but I did find a snippet on the  How do I hide student names in SpeedGrader? - Instructure Community - 768  guide that says "Grades of anonymous grading assignments are automatically hidden. Anonymity can be removed from each submission by editing the assignment and changing the anonymous options to allow graders to view student names."  So, if you can give up anonymity, there might be a path forward.  If you can't give up anonymity, I don't have much of a suggestion other than keeping track of things somewhere outside of Canvas (like an excel spreadsheet), but I know that's not ideal at all.

-Chris

[Adabhael]

I had a similar issue, although without the moderated grading wrinkle. I had my TA grade anonymously, but wanted to spot check the distribution and grades before posting. The workaround I use is to set the assignment as "Anonymous Grading" until all assignments are graded, then edit the assignment to turn that off, at which point the grades are visible in the Gradebook, so I can see the statistics and check before posting them to be visible to the students. Not sure about the intersection with moderated grading.