Types of Grading

Student names are hidden while you grade and are only revealed after you post grades. Use this when you want to reduce the potential for bias from knowing whose work you're grading. Anonymous grading works with a single grader. It doesn't distribute or duplicate grading work.

Assign specific users (instructors, teaching assistants, or graders) to grade different sets of student submissions. Each delegated grader only sees the submissions assigned to them, and they grade independently; they don't see what other graders assigned. A designated final grader (usually the instructor) reviews the provisional grades and reconciles them into a final grade. Use this to split up grading work across a team, especially for large classes or merged courses where you might assign each grader a section.

Assign multiple graders to grade the same student submissions independently, without seeing each other's grades, feedback, rubrics, or file annotations. A reconciler then reviews all the independent grades and determines the final one. Use this when you want more than one perspective on the same piece of work to catch inconsistency or bias. Some institutions call this "blind grading." You can combine parallel grading with anonymous grading so graders also don't see student identities.

Delegated and parallel grading both involve assigning multiple people to grade. The difference is whether graders grade for the same students or different students.