# Anonymous Grading

Sometimes you may prefer to grade anonymously yourself or have your graders grade anonymously. CodeGrade assignments have a setting to hide all occurrences of student and group names in our user interface. This guide explains how you can turn this on for your assignment.

![Turning on anonymous grading for your CodeGrade assignment.](https://2172486256-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F-MKAQsDlg_P20iQy3JDs%2Fuploads%2FUMUhZOxLdcsd7GvRN41Z%2FScreenshot%202025-08-01%20at%2016.24.02.png?alt=media\&token=89013ca1-fd4d-4e83-affa-39b9cf1e6165)

1. Navigate to the **Assignment Settings page** of the assignment you want to start grading anonymously.
2. Go to the **General** tab and navigate to the **Anonymized grading** option.
3. Toggle to **Yes** to turn on and toggle to **No** to turn off. Press **Submit** to submit your changes.

![List of students with Anonymous grading turned on. ](https://2172486256-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2F-MKAQsDlg_P20iQy3JDs%2Fuploads%2FDzjkCjjl1P4Ux1UqsmlP%2FScreenshot%202025-08-01%20at%2016.25.25.png?alt=media\&token=1bbdf4b5-5f4a-4bc7-ab6e-a5d5fc769bcf)

{% hint style="warning" %}
Anonymous grading is a UI-based feature, it hides all occurrences of student and group names in our user interface. Names in code, the Filesystem folders, exports and plagiarism cases are **not** anonymized. You may disable some of these functions for your graders [using our permission system](https://help.codegrade.com/setup-assignment/other-features/configuring-permissions-of-roles).
{% endhint %}

{% hint style="info" %}
Users with the [permission](https://help.codegrade.com/setup-assignment/other-features/configuring-permissions-of-roles) "*See anonymized names*" can see student and group names even if Anonymized grading is turned on.
{% endhint %}