Anonymous grading is an Enterprise feature that hides student identity from graders during the grading workflow, removing a source of unconscious bias. It’s a per-assignment opt-in: turn it on for assignments where blind grading matters, leave it off for the ones where it doesn’t. Student identities are automatically revealed once a submission is graded and returned to the student.

Enabling Anonymous Grading on an Assignment

1. Open the assignment editor.
2. Find the Anonymous Grading section.
3. Toggle Enable anonymous grading on.
4. Save the assignment.

From this point on, every submission to this assignment is anonymous to the grader until the submission is returned to the student.

What Graders See When It’s Enabled

Across every grading-related admin surface, including the submissions list, the grade-this queue, and the grading interface itself, student-identifying fields are replaced with the row-level submission ID:

• Student name → “Submission #142” (using the actual submission row ID)
• Student email → hidden
• Student avatar → hidden

File downloads are also masked. When a grader downloads a submission file, its name is changed to a generic name.

What Anonymous Grading Does Not Affect

It’s worth being explicit about what stays unchanged:

• Internal database records — the user_id on every submission is untouched. Anonymous grading is a viewer overlay, not a separate identity system.
• Audit log — the audit log captures the grader’s user_id on grading actions exactly as it always has. Anonymous grading doesn’t affect accountability for who graded what.
• xAPI statements — if the School add-on emits xAPI statements, those statements continue to identify students by email or account name as configured. xAPI is a different system serving a different purpose.
• Student-facing pages — students still see their own name on their submission page. Anonymous grading is about what graders see, not what students see.
• Reports — group reports, the Plagiarism Report, and other reports apply the anonymization mask for ungraded submissions but show identity for graded ones, matching the grading interface behavior.

Disabling Anonymous Grading

Toggle Enable anonymous grading off on the assignment editor. Future views of submissions to that assignment show student identity normally. Submissions already graded under the anonymous policy are unaffected — they reveal identity as they would under the normal workflow.