If you want to grade assignments without viewing student submission details, you can hide student names in SpeedGrader for anonymous grading. This option can be enabled on a per-user basis.

When you open SpeedGrader, you can hide names for your purposes only using the SpeedGrader options. The first student displayed in the SpeedGrader is always randomly generated for every assignment.

When you hide student names, no student submission details display in the SpeedGrader submission sidebar. However, student IDs still display in the SpeedGrader URL unless you enable anonymous grading. Additionally, students can still see their grades. To hide assignment grades, you may need to hide them manually.

Anonymous Grading

This feature does not require the Anonymous Grading feature option to be enabled. However, assignments that have enabled Anonymous Grading display the following SpeedGrader options:

• If the checkbox to hide student names is not visible in SpeedGrader settings, anonymous grading has been enabled for the assignment.
• Grades of anonymous grading assignments are automatically hidden. Anonymity can be removed from each submission by editing the assignment and changing the anonymous options to allow graders to view student names. Submission details can only be viewed when assignment grades have been posted.
• Posting grades for an anonymous assignment will remove anonymity from the assignment.

Note: Hiding names in SpeedGrader does not affect names in the Gradebook.