Kritik is an online peer-to-peer interactive learning platform designed for professors to engage students in a twenty-first century way. Kritik puts students at the center of their learning where you are there as their coach and guide. Use Kritik to help reduce the time you allocate to grading while ensuring your students receive timely and personalized feedback. Plus, you’ll be helping your students develop their critical thinking and communication skills.
With Kritik, you can:
Enable your students to engage in peer assessment
Foster vibrant online learning communities through Kritik’s unique opportunities for student collaboration and interactive features
Create customizable rubrics and allow your students to engage in rubric-based assessment
Offer your students unique activities beyond just multiple-choice tests
Enable your students to provide better feedback through Kritik's 360-degree feedback loop
Note: If you're wondering how to introduce Kritik in simple terms within your course outline, feel free to use the syllabus insert in this article as a guideline or copy and paste it into your course outline.
Intro to Kritik - A video for your students
To ensure your students understand what Kritik is all about, please share this video with them at the beginning of the term. The video outlines the skills they will gain from using Kritik, how the three stages work, and how to be an effective evaluator.
Access the Student’s Guide
The Intro to Kritik Activity
The Intro to Kritik Activity is a short, pre-made activity in your course that helps make Kritik a smooth adoption for both the instructor and students. The best way to provide students with hands-on experience with Kritik is to conduct this activity within the first week of class as the first activity. Communicate that it is used to familiarize students with the 3 stages of Kritik (Create, Evaluate, Feedback) and to get them thinking about the importance of feedback.
View our article about the Intro to Kritik activity to learn more about its purpose and how to use and set it up in your course.