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Kritik Spring 2025 Release Notes

The latest updates and enhancements designed to improve the user experience and functionality of the Kritik platform.

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Written by Support Team
Updated over 2 weeks ago

Scheduling Activity Improvements

    • Recommended for activities where students are required to compose unique creations.

    • In terms of attachments, limited to only docx and pdf files for now.

  • Calibration Starting Score: Now an available setting

    • This is the desired minimum score for the activity

      • Does not eliminate the possibility of a student receiving a 0

    • This field is only available when the course is set to Percentage scoring

Group Activity Improvements

Improvements to Grading Accuracy

  • Adjust Total Creation Score: Instructors can adjust creation score by specific %.

    • Adjust the final overall creation score as a whole, which does not impact the evaluators' evaluation scores and grading power.

  • AI-Generated Evaluation Content Check: Content Export now includes probabilities for evaluations.

    • Receive scores indicating the likelihood of creations/evaluations being written by a human, AI, or a mix of both (based on textbox and file content).

    • Below, is an image of how it appears once emailed to the instructor.

LMS Integration Improvements

    • Due dates for each stage will automatically appear in Canvas's calendar once an activity is scheduled in Kritik.

    • Note: This feature is currently only available for Canvas.

General User Experience Improvements

  • Auto Enrollment via Roster Sync: Only for $0 courses.

    • Students bypass the "pending" state straight into "enrolled" state. This will make it much easier to add students into groups after the initial roster sync.

  • Submissions with attachments or hyperlinks: Checkbox for students to verify attachments.

    • "I verified that my attachments in Kritik are working properly and that any links provided in my creation are accessible to my peers"

  • Bulk Creations Download: Now available at the activity level under action menu

    • Zip file including attachments and content in text box is emailed to the instructor.

    • Note: No longer able to download all creations from the course page.

  • Copy Evaluator Emails Stage: New feature for instructors.

    • Allow instructor to give more information or guidance about how to grade a specific creation.

    • Note: This feature is not automatically available to all instructors and must be enabled. Please reach out to Live Chat Support for help.

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