Our school does not allow anyone except the teacher to see grades in the Gradebook until official grade reports.  However, it appears that if a rubric is assigned to an assignment even though students are not permitted to view these assignment grades that their grade does appear when students go and view the rubric.

We would like to see some additional settings and enhancements:

1. Provide an additional setting on the backend to control whether or not teachers can or cannot allow their students to view grades when associated with a rubric.  They should still be able to see the rubric itself, but as currently implemented the points also appear in the rubric even though the setting to allow students to view grades is turned off globally.
2. Provide an additional setting to control whether or not teachers are allowed to show their comments to students.  In at least a few cases, teachers are only interested in allowing students to see their feedback on assignments, not the grades, and allowing this would give teachers an opportunity to provide feedback on each assignment.

I'm not certain if students can see teacher comments on assignments when gradebook grades are hidden, but this could be a bit challenging to implement correctly because I could see scenarios where teachers would want to students to control whether or not students see their comments on a per-assignment basis, rather than all comments or none.

In that case, I wonder if it would be better to have two comment fields for every assignment:

1. Student Feedback: One specifically for forward-facing student feedback and general comments.  This way teachers can natively give feedback on all assignments continuously, or as needed
2. Teacher-Only Comment: A second for teacher's internal comments and notes for themselves.  These would be solely for the purposes of the teacher that they don't want the student, parent, or other constituents to see, but want to keep for themselves.