Student reference numbers problem in Speedgrader

[MICHAELSLANCAS]

Dear Canvas community,

Could you help us with the following issue please:?

When anonymous marking in Speedgrader, the students have reference numbers, e.g. 'Student 1', 'Student 2' etc.
On two occasions now, in different modules, we have had these reference numbers change for no apparent reason, e.g. 'Student 2' might become 'Student 64'. We don't know why this occurs, but it is confusing our staff.
No one is sorting the data or changing anything. We don't know when it happens, e.g. if this is linked to the student being in multiple groups, or following late submissions by other students, or is someone changing something in a database that we don't have access to?.

We have noticed that the anonymous ID contained in the URL remains the same, e.g.: &anonymous_id=1ZD3K Please could you let us know why this might be happening and how to prevent it?

Thank you
Mike

[Mose986]

I have exactly the same issue. Anyone got a thought?

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[nwilson7 · Accepted solution]

@MICHAELSLANCAS  and @Mose986 I may be misreading your question but I believe this is by design to further remove any bias, for example you can't decide you always like student 1's work.  See this line in the documentation: When a grader accesses a SpeedGrader link, the first student displayed in the student list is always randomly generated for every assignment.

How do I hide student names in SpeedGrader? - Instructure Community

Hope this helps!

Nick

[MICHAELSLANCAS]

Thanks Nick,

Update: I contacted the Infrastructure team and they have advised that "This was an issue just several weeks ago but has since been resolved and your description is very similar to the issue." Hopefully the fix they've put in place will solve the issue I was having too.

They can check this if we have another occurance, so fingers crossed for now that it doesn't happen again.