Anonymous Instructor Annotations
Anonymous instructor annotations hide instructor names from students in comments added directly to student submissions in SpeedGrader DocViewer. This can be useful when more than one teacher or grader reviews an assignment and students should not see who wrote each comment. Note that general comments in the SpeedGrader sidebar will not be anonymous.
It is best to enable this setting in the assignment before students begin submitting. If comments have already been added before the setting is enabled, they will remain named; existing comments cannot be anonymized afterwards.
How to enable anonymous annotations in the course
Anonymous annotations must first be enabled in the course settings.
Click Settings at the bottom of the course navigation menu.
Select the Feature Options tab near the top of the page.
Scroll down and find the Anonymous Instructor Annotations setting.
Click the red X icon on the right and select Enabled. You do not need to save. After the setting has been enabled, the option will appear in the assignment settings.
Anonymous annotations enabled in an assignment
Open the assignment and click Edit.
Find the Anonymous Instructor Annotations setting and select it.
Save the assignment.
After this, instructor names will not appear with annotations in the student’s document when the student views the reviewed submission.