Allow Assignment Grades To Be Hidden After Submissions But Before Grading Begins
Canvas allows an assignment's grades to be hidden only if this option is selected before the assignment has any submissions. Otherwise, a clumsy and counter-productive workaround is required.
It makes sense, perhaps, to discourage the hiding of grades after grades have been submitted. Canvas automatically notifies students when they have a new grade, and confusion may ensue if the student cannot then see the grade.
But if none of the submissions have been graded yet, the situation is effectively the same as it was before submissions began. There does not seem to be any good reason why the instructor, having received the submissions, should not be able to hide the grades before commencing the grading.
The only option the instructor has at this point is to grade one of the submissions first, as this then makes it possible to hide that grade and all subsequent grades for that assignment. This makes no sense, though, as it actually REQUIRES the instructor to do the very thing we are trying to avoid.
Canvas should allow instructors to hide all grades for an assignment AT ANY TIME. If and when it is actually wise to use this functionality is something the instructors themselves should be left to determine. Efforts by Canvas to make these (and other) decisions on the instructors behalf just create obstructions to our work while actually worsening the problems they seek to avoid.
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