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How to Create a Coding Authorship Activity

Coding Authorship helps you assess not just a student’s final code submission, but how they wrote it. With Coding Authorship, you can track typed work, pasted content, AI-assisted content, and version history directly in Kritik.

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Before you begin

Before creating a Coding Authorship activity, make sure you have:

  • Your assignment details ready

  • Any starter files, project folders, or ZIP files you want students to use

Create a new Coding Authorship activity

  1. Go to Activities in Kritik.

  2. Click Create Activity

  3. Select Coding Authorship as the assignment type

Add the assignment details

Enter the basic information for your activity, including:

  • Title

  • Learning objectives

  • Instructions

  • Any supporting files, such as a ZIP file or starter project

Any files you attach will sync into the student’s VS Code environment.

Note: Peer Assessment is enabled by default. You can use this toggle to disable peer assessment for this assignment:

Configure AI Policy and Editor Settings

Authenticity thresholds

You can set thresholds for AI and pasted content to flag submissions for review. This gives you more control over how strict the activity should be.

AI assistant

Choose the type of AI support you want students to have:

  • Guiding assistant: provides hints and guidance, but does not give direct answers

  • Standard assistant: more flexible and better suited for advanced courses

You can also customize the Guiding assistant prompt if you want the AI behaviour to better match your course or assignment goals.

Save and launch the activity

Once your assignment settings are ready:

  1. Review the activity details.

  2. Save the assignment.

  3. Schedule it for students.

Students will then be able to access the activity through the VS Code extension.

What students do

When students start the activity, they will:

  1. Sign into the VS Code extension using their email and Kritik activity access code

  2. Enter their access code

  3. Load the assigned project or file

  4. Work in VS Code while Kritik tracks:

    • typed code

    • pasted content

    • AI-assisted content

    • version history

  5. Submit their work in VS Code. The submission is synced back to the Kritik Activity.

What instructors can review

Instructors can review:

  • The full code history

  • AI chat history

  • Pasted content and paste reasons

  • Version-by-version changes

  • A replay of how the submission was built

This makes it easier to understand how a student arrived at their final answer, not just whether the final code runs correctly.

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