When setting up a Canvas assignment, you can opt to anonymise the assessment, hiding the students' names from the graders. You can also opt to hide grader's annotations from each other, and from the student, but the overall comments are not anonymised and visible to graders and the student.

Make your assignment fully anonymous so the graders can't see the students names.

Step 1

Set up an assignment as shown on the How to set up an Assignment page.

Step 2

Scroll down to the section that deals with Anonymous grading.

Screenshot of anonymous grading section on the assignment setup page.

Tick the first option 'Graders cannot view student names' to anonymise student names in Speedgrader.

Tick the second option to anonymise annotations made by instructors within the document. N.B. Overall feedback is not anonymised to graders or students, only the in-document annotations.

Note

If the Anonymous instructor annotations option is not available, it needs to be enabled in Course Settings.

Click Settings in the navigation, then select the Feature Previews tab. Check that the Anonymous Instructor annotations option is enabled.

Enabling anonymous instructor annotations