How to Create an Individual Authorship Activity

An Individual Authorship Activity is an activity where students submit their work individually within Kritik using the VisibleAI editor with an AI tutor, authorship tracking, and citation features all built in.

Unlike a standard Individual Peer Assessment Activity (which has Create, Evaluate, and Feedback stages), an Individual Authorship Activity only has the Create stage. Once the Create stage ends, the activity will enter the Grading stage you can grade and review each student's submission directly, with full visibility into how the work was composed (AI usage, pasted content, time spent, authenticity score, writing history, etc.).

Step 1: Navigate to your course, and select 'Activities', which can be found on the taskbar on the left

Step 2: Select 'Create Activity'

Step 3: Choose 'Individual' as your Activity Type, and 'Individual Authorship Tracking' as your Activity Format, and then click 'Save and continue'
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Step 4: Set up your Activity Details. In this section, you'll outline the activity itself, set your AI Policy, and configure your Authorship Options.

Start by adding your Title, Overall Learning Objective(s), and Instructions. The Activity Details section also lets you attach a supporting file, with a max upload size of 2 GB.

Once you've finished setting up your Activity Details, select your AI Policy for the Individual Authorship Activity.

You can set thresholds for allowed AI content and pasted content. If a student's submission exceeds either of these thresholds, their Authenticity Score will decrease.

If you'd prefer not to allow either at all, you can simply toggle each setting off. This will prevent students from inserting AI-generated text or pasting content from outside sources entirely. For a full breakdown, check out our Authenticity Score article.

Once your AI Policy is set, choose your Authorship Options. Here, you'll set your AI Assistant, Self Reflection exercise and Editor Content.

First, set up your AI Assistant.

The AI Assistant can be personalized to match different teaching styles when responding to your students prompts. You have two modes to choose:

Guiding - The AI Assistant helps students understand concepts by explaining ideas and asking guiding questions, which encourages deeper thinking rather than giving direct answers

Standard - The AI Assistant uses the course and assignment name for context, and only responds to prompts with default behaviour.

Note: Whichever option is highlighted in pink is the one you've selected.

Set up your Self Reflection settings. Students will be required to complete a short self-reflection on their use of AI when they submit their assignment. This will also be due 3 hours after the assignment is due.

You can also include an Open-Ended Reflection Question to add a custom open-ended prompt for students to respond to as part of their reflection. This is optional - toggle it on if you'd like students to answer an additional question of your choice, or leave it off if the standard reflection is enough.

Lastly, set up your Editor Content. You have the option to pre-fill the student editor with starter content, instructions, or a template, which helps guide students as they begin their work.

Note: Including Initial Editor Content is optional. Toggle 'Include Initial Editor Content' off if you do not wish to have editor content included.

Step 4: When everything is set up, click Save and continue.

Step 5: Set up your rubric & settings.

In the Settings section, you'll have the option to enable Similarity Check.

If Similarity Check is enabled, you'll receive notifications when students submit similar submissions. Similarity Check is most effective for open-ended, unique-response activities, rather than ones with set or objective answers.

Step 6: Once your rubric & settings are set, click Save and continue.

Step 7: This is the final step. You'll now move to the Schedule Activity stage, where you can set the start date and due date for your activity. Once the due date passes, the activity automatically moves into the Grading stage, where you'll grade the creations.

You can also adjust your Late Submission Settings within the Schedule Activity stage. If enabled, students will be able to submit after the Due date until the cutoff date you set. If disabled, late submissions will not be permitted.

Step 8: Once you've set your schedule and chosen your Late Submission settings, click 'Schedule Activity'. If you do not wish to schedule, click Cancel.

Important: If you do not want schedule your activity, click "Cancel". Your activity will save and enter your 'Unscheduled Activities' section in your course homepage.

Your Individual Authorship Activity has now been successfully created!