Random assigning of numbers in Speed Grader

BryanCarrier

I would like for Canvas to randomly assign students a number when hiding student names option is selected. After several trials, it seems that Canvas is programmed to assign these numbers alphabetically. For the primary teacher, this poses a non-random feel as these students are regularly numbered in the same alphabetic fashion. Randomizing the order of grading doesn't help because again the number assigned is still alphabetical and the student number is known to both teacher and student.

Gabriel33

If you have something like Ublock Origin, you can hide the student's names (or their generated numbers) by right clicking the name and selecting "block element".

It can also be done with this tampermonkey script, if you prefer that (note to change the "match" to apply to your Canvas instance's URL, so it doesn't go over every single website:

Spoiler

// ==UserScript==
//          Hide Span Text Inside .studentSelection
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      1.1
// @description  Hides text of spans with class 'ui-selectmenu-item-header' inside .studentSelection divs only
//        Gabriel33 and ChatGPT 4o
// @match        https://www.example.com
//         none
// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';

    function hideSpanText() {
        const containers = document.querySelectorAll('div.studentSelection');
        containers.forEach(container => {
            const spans = container.querySelectorAll('span.ui-selectmenu-item-header');
            spans.forEach(span => {
                span.textContent = '';
            });
        });
    }

    // Run initially
    hideSpanText();

    // Observe DOM changes to handle dynamically added content
    const observer = new MutationObserver(hideSpanText);
    observer.observe(document.body, { childList: true, subtree: true });
})();

--EDIT-- I changed the @match to example.com to avoid use of the script without changes