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Spotlight Feature

Learn the purpose of the spotlight feature, AI-suggested spotlights, and how to spotlight student creations and evaluations.

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Written by Support Team
Updated over 7 months ago

The Spotlight feature allows you to showcase exceptional creations and written evaluations done by your students to the rest of the class. Spotlighting allows students to have equitable access to viewing exemplary work so that they can better understand what’s expected of them. Spotlighted creations can also serve as great additions to study guides, depending on the activity type.

When you spotlight, the anonymity of the author of the creation and/or evaluation is preserved. The student whose work is being spotlighted will be sent a congratulatory email notification.

TIP: You may want to sort your activity’s student list based on highest scores to easily find the best creations to spotlight.

Spotlight Recommendations:

When activities transition from Evaluate to Feedback, instructors receive an email with suggested student creations based on the highest creation scores. The email includes a button directing them to Kritik, where they can see the suggested spotlights within their account. The spotlight reasoning would be pre-filled based on how but the student performed against the different rubric criteria. The instructor has the ability to edit the spotlight reasoning.

Spotlighting a Student's Creation:

See a video on how to spotlight students' creations here:

  1. Click into an activity

  2. Select a student from the activity’s student list

  3. Select the ‘Creation’ Tab

  4. Select ‘Spotlight Creation’ under the Creation heading

  5. Select if the creation was “Above & Beyond” or “Innovative”

  6. Share remarks you would like to share with your students

  7. Select ‘Preview’

  8. Review the Spotlight and select ‘Share Spotlight’

The spotlight will appear at the top of all students’ Activity Dashboards, under their grades and above their Current Activities:

Spotlighting a Student's Evaluation:

  1. Click into an activity

  2. Select a student from the student list

  3. Select the ‘Creation’ Tab

  4. Scroll down to 'Evaluations Received'

  5. Select ‘Spotlight Evaluation’ under the Written Evaluation that you would like to spotlight

  6. Select if the Written Evaluation was “Critical & Motivational” or “Authentic”

  7. Share remarks you would like to share with your students

  8. Select ‘Preview’

  9. Review the Spotlight and select ‘Share Spotlight’

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