If you work in a school that use Microsoft Teams or any of the other great Office 365 tools available to teachers and students, you need to subscribe to Mike Tholfsen’s YouTube channel. It was through his channel that I recently learned about a fantastic new feature in Microsoft Teams that I wish Google would add to Classroom.
The new Microsoft Teams feature that look awesome is the option to anonymize students’ assignment submissions when you’re grading them. In other words, you can hide all student names and avatars when you are grading their work then reveal their names and avatars after you have completed grading all submissions. Mike made a new video that succinctly shows you how to use anonymous grading in Microsoft Teams.
Applications for Education
Whether we want to admit it or not, we all can have a little bias when looking through students’ essays and other written work like lab reports (Mike gives a good example of that in the video above). Anonymizing assignment submissions is one way to try to remove that bias. I’m glad to see that Microsoft Teams now has this option and I hope that Google’s product development team takes note of it.
