# 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.](/files/pZPZk5h94af7tEiE5wGO)

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. ](/files/s1Yz7t0Im7gjQ92YG41I)

{% 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](/setup-assignment/other-features/configuring-permissions-of-roles.md).
{% endhint %}

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


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