Enabling anonymous instructor annotations in student submissions.

When creating an assignment, you can enable anonymous instructor annotations in DocViewer supported submissions. When students view a submission with anonymous instructor annotations in DocViewer, comments do not display an instructor's name.

This option only affects comments added in DocViewer in the SpeedGrader submission window. Comments added in the Speedgrader sidebar are not anonymous.

Notes:

Anonymous instructor annotations is currently a course opt-in feature. To enable this feature, learn how to manage feature options in the course features lesson.
Anonymous Instructor Annotations is not associated with the Anonymous Grading feature and displays as an option in all assignments.
If you select this checkbox after student submissions are received, any annotations already made in DocViewer will not be anonymous. Ensure this checkbox is selected before allowing students to submit assignments.

Open Assignments

In Course Navigation, click the Assignments link.

Open Assignment

To open an existing assignment, click the Assignment name [1].

To create a new assignment, click the Add Assignment button [2].

Edit Assignment

Click the Edit button.

Enable Anonymous Instructor Annotations

Select the Anonymous Instructor Annotations checkbox.

Save Assignment

If you want to notify users about any future assignment changes, click the Notify users that this content has changed checkbox [1]. Click the Save button [2].

Note: If your assignment has not yet been published, the assignment will show the Save & Publish button [3]. The Save button will create a draft of your assignment so you can publish it later.

Anonymous grading

When creating an assignment, you can choose to set up an assignment with anonymous grading. Selecting the anonymous grading option hides student names from graders when they view assignment submissions in SpeedGrader.

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

Currently, enabling Anonymous Grading displays SpeedGrader submissions in a read-only state and does not allow annotations or comments in DocViewer. If you want to use DocViewer tools and create anonymous comments in the submission, you can enable Anonymous Instructor Annotations in your assignment instead.

Notes:

Anonymous grading is currently a course opt-in feature. To enable this feature, learn how to manage feature options in the course features lesson.
You or an admin can enable or disable the anonymous grading option at any time. Any edits made to the assignment will be tracked, and auditing tools will be added to help with accountability in a future release.
Anonymous grading can be enabled with moderated grading assignment options.
Anonymous assignments are automatically muted. Like with all other muted assignments, grades are not displayed to students until the assignment is unmuted.

Open Assignments

In Course Navigation, click the Assignments link.

Add Assignment

To create an assignment with all assignment details at the same time, click the Add Assignment button.

Edit Assignment

If you want to edit an existing assignment that has not yet received student submissions, click the name of the assignment.

Add Assignment Details

Add details to the assignment.

Select Anonymous Grading

Click the Graders cannot view student names checkbox.

Note: If the moderated grading assignment option is also enabled, anonymous grading includes an additional option for graders to not view each other's names.

Save Assignment

If you want to notify users about any future assignment changes, click the Notify users that this content has changed checkbox [1]. Click the Save button [2].

Note: If your assignment has not yet been published, the assignment will show the Save & Publish button. The Save button will create a draft of your assignment so you can publish it later.