# Kritik Help Center

> Your Guide to Kritik

## Instructor Guides

- [What is Kritik?](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/13064704-what-is-kritik.md): Learn how to use Kritik, get an introduction to the 3 stages, and find a useful video to support your success with Kritik.
- [How to Introduce Kritik to your Students](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6381256-how-to-introduce-kritik-to-your-students.md): Learn what Kritik is and find introductory resources to show your students in the beginning of your term.
- [Kritik's Peer Assessment Tool - Kritik360](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/8257446-kritik-s-peer-assessment-tool-kritik360.md): See how you can explain Kritik360 to your students within your course syllabus with the text below.
- [All About the Intro to Kritik Activity](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6424824-all-about-the-intro-to-kritik-activity.md): Learn about what the Intro to Kritik activity is, its purpose, and how to use it in your course.
- [Supported Web Browsers](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/9416050-supported-web-browsers.md)
- [Language Settings in Kritik](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/9998852-language-settings-in-kritik.md): Learn how to change the language settings in your Kritik account.
- [Kritik’s Peer Assessment and Writing Authorship Bundle Syllabus Insert](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/15232290-kritik-s-peer-assessment-and-writing-authorship-bundle-syllabus-insert.md): See how you can explain the Kritik and Writing Authorship bundled experience to your students within your course syllabus with the text below.
- [Kritik Coding Authorship Syllabus Insert](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/16349134-kritik-coding-authorship-syllabus-insert.md)
- [Kritik’s Writing Authorship Tool – VisibleAI](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/16633909-kritik-s-writing-authorship-tool-visibleai.md): See how you can explain VisibleAI to your students within your course syllabus with the text below.
- [Kritik Standalone Coding Authorship Syllabus Insert](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/17328351-kritik-standalone-coding-authorship-syllabus-insert.md): Instructors can copy and paste the text below directly into their course syllabus or course outline. Note: Standalone activities include only a Create and Grading stage \(no peer assessment\).
- [Data Security & Privacy](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/11906417-data-security-privacy.md): Understand how your student's data is protected in Kritik.
- [Introduction to LMS Integrations](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6381306-introduction-to-lms-integrations.md): Find an overview of Learning Management Systems \(LMS\) benefits and list of currently offered LMS Integrations.
- [How to Link Kritik to a Course in your LMS](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6381319-how-to-link-kritik-to-a-course-in-your-lms.md): Find steps on how to connect and disconnect Kritik to a course in your LMS.
- [Accessing Course Roster from LMS](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6402890-accessing-course-roster-from-lms.md): Learn how to access your course rosters from Canvas, BlackBoard, D2L, and Moodle.
- [Roster Sync](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6516172-roster-sync.md): Learn what roster sync is, how to connect your courses, and frequently asked questions.
- [How to Sync Grades from Kritik to your LMS Course](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6437686-how-to-sync-grades-from-kritik-to-your-lms-course.md): Learn how to use up grade sync including, overall scores and individual activity scores.
- [How to Link Kritik Activities to Assignments on Canvas](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6980622-how-to-link-kritik-activities-to-assignments-on-canvas.md): Read this article to learn about how to add Kritik links to assignment modules on Canvas.
- [Canvas Calendar Sync](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/11525899-canvas-calendar-sync.md): Learn how Kritik deadlines are synced to the Canvas calendar when the Kritik course is linked to your Canvas LMS.
- [How to Sync Groups from Canvas](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/9330978-how-to-sync-groups-from-canvas.md)
- [How to Add Kritik to Your D2L Brightspace Course - Instructors Guide](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/15900701-how-to-add-kritik-to-your-d2l-brightspace-course-instructors-guide.md): Learn how to add and launch Kritik within your D2L Brightspace course modules in just a few steps.
- [Creating a Course](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6381334-creating-a-course.md): Find the steps to creating a course in Kritik.
- [Course Information](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6381338-course-information.md): Find steps to editing, deleting, duplicating, and archiving courses.
- [Enrolling Students](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6387371-enrolling-students.md): Learn how to mange students, enroll, and remove students from your course.
- [Adding TAs/Co-Instructors](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6386841-adding-tas-co-instructors.md): Learn how to add Teaching Assistants and Co-Instructors.
- [Course Grading Scheme](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6386864-course-grading-scheme.md): Find information on the grading scheme and how to edit your grading scheme.
- [Resetting your Password](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6402040-resetting-your-password.md): Learn how to reset and change your Kritik password.
- [Individual Peer Assessment Activities](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6386950-individual-peer-assessment-activities.md): A step-by-step walkthrough on creating an Individual Peer Assessment Activity from scratch in Kritik.
- [Group Activities](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6387083-group-activities.md): Learn the steps to creating Between-Group and Within Group activities.
- [Creating and Managing Group Sets](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/9065123-creating-and-managing-group-sets.md): Learn how to create group sets and manage/edit group sets.
- [Calibration Activities](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6387297-calibration-activities.md): Learn how Calibration works, how to set up a Calibration activity, how to interpret calibration scores, and how Micro-Calibration works.
- [Editing an Activity](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6770450-editing-an-activity.md): Learn the steps to edit an activity in Kritik
- [Scheduling an Activity](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6387347-scheduling-an-activity.md): “Learn how to schedule an activity and how to edit your schedule."
- [How to Revert a Stage](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/9100609-how-to-revert-a-stage.md): Learn how to revert an activity stage in Kritik.
- [Duplicating and Importing Activities](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6790379-duplicating-and-importing-activities.md): Learn how to duplicate activities, and how to import them from another course.
- [Live Presentation Activities](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6868118-live-presentation-activities.md): Learn about how to use Kritik for live presentations
- [Creating Activities with AI](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/8021448-creating-activities-with-ai.md): Learn how to create templates for Individual Activities with AI in Kritik
- [Participation & Missed Student Work](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/8194839-participation-missed-student-work.md): Learn how to prevent students who have missed the Create stage from participating in the Evaluate and Feedback stages.
- [Viewing File Submissions](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/9402225-viewing-file-submissions.md)
- [How to Move an Activity to the Next Stage](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/9449778-how-to-move-an-activity-to-the-next-stage.md): Learn how to move an activity stage in Kritik.
- [How to Create an Individual Authorship Activity](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/15423307-how-to-create-an-individual-authorship-activity.md): A step-by-step walkthrough on setting up an authorship-only activity for your students, without the peer assessment stages.
- [Setting up Authorship Tracking within Kritik](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/15232412-setting-up-authorship-tracking-within-kritik.md): Learn how to enable Authorship Tracking within Kritik with Writing Authorship.
- [How to Create a Coding Authorship Activity](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/16796113-how-to-create-a-coding-authorship-activity.md): 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 vers...
- [Using APA and MLA Writing Standards with Writing Authorship Activities](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/17297641-using-apa-and-mla-writing-standards-with-writing-authorship-activities.md): Learn about the new formatting tools in the Writing Authorship editor and set your activity's writing standard to APA 7, MLA, or Unspecified.
- [Creating Your First Activity](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/17324085-creating-your-first-activity.md): Instructors can now create their first activity in a new course from existing content, from scratch, or with AI.
- [Customize the Guiding Assistant for Writing Authorship Activities](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/17324626-customize-the-guiding-assistant-for-writing-authorship-activities.md): Learn how to customize the Guiding Assistant for Writing Authorship Tracking Activities to have more control over the AI assistant's responses.
- [How to Set Up Late Submission Settings](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6387449-how-to-set-up-late-submission-settings.md): Learn how to set up your late submission settings in your Kritik acitivities.
- [How to Grant Late Accommodations for Writing Authorship Activities](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/17322391-how-to-grant-late-accommodations-for-writing-authorship-activities.md): Learn about individual late accommodations for Writing Authorship activities by selecting a new extended due date and time for specific students on the submission tracking page.
- [Mode Scoring](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/8308653-mode-scoring.md): Learn what Mode Scoring is and how to enable and disable this in your activity rubrics.
- [Importing a Rubric](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/15436869-importing-a-rubric.md): Learn how to import an existing rubric from a file directly into your activities.
- [How to Edit a Rubric](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/15505962-how-to-edit-a-rubric.md): Learn how to edit a rubric in Kritik, whether you imported it, built it from scratch, generated with AI or started from a template.
- [How to Create a Rubric Template](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/15507046-how-to-create-a-rubric-template.md): Learn how to create a rubric template you can reuse across multiple activities and courses.
- [Creating a Rubric with AI](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/16153555-creating-a-rubric-with-ai.md): A quick guide to generating a custom, editable rubric with Kritik's AI.
- [Viewing Student Progress in an Activity](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6387491-viewing-student-progress-in-an-activity.md): Learn how to view your student's progress in the creation, evaluation, and feedback stages.
- [The Grading Stage](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6387522-the-grading-stage.md): Learn about the grading stage, how to edit student grades, how to manage and export grade disputes, and how to mark an activity as complete.
- [Resolving Disputes](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/8324618-resolving-disputes.md): Learn how to view disputed scores and how to resolve them.
- [Resolving Flagged Comments](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6387520-resolving-flagged-comments.md): Learn how flagged comments work.
- [Commenting on Student Creations and Evaluations](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6475339-commenting-on-student-creations-and-evaluations.md): Learn how to leave comments on students' creations and evaluations.
- [Downloading Student Creations](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6612751-downloading-student-creations.md): Learn how to download and interpret student creations.
- [Spotlight Feature](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6387537-spotlight-feature.md): Learn the purpose of the spotlight feature and how to spotlight student creations and evaluations. Learn how to additionally spotlight Writing Authorship creations.
- [Removing an Evaluation](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6912444-removing-an-evaluation.md): Learn about how to remove evaluations on Kritik
- [AI-Generated Content Check](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/8011603-ai-generated-content-check.md): How to use Kritik's built-in AI content check on student submissions.
- [Similarity Report](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/9741337-similarity-report.md): Learn how to use the Similarity Report in Kritik
- [Flagged Creations](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/9945294-flagged-creations.md): Learn how students can flag a creation and how instructors can resolve creation flags in Kritik.
- [Authenticity Score with Authorship Tracking](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/15255396-authenticity-score-with-authorship-tracking.md): Learn about our Authenticity Score feature and how it further supports academic integrity.
- [Understanding Writing Authorship Insights](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/17333013-understanding-writing-authorship-insights.md): Learn what student Insights include in Writing Authorship Activities.
- [The Gradebook](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6387558-the-gradebook.md): Learn how to download and interpret the gradebook.
- [Grading Power and Scoring in Kritik](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6941388-grading-power-and-scoring-in-kritik.md): Learn about what grading power is and how the grading score is calculated.
- [Viewing as a Student](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/8312413-viewing-as-a-student.md): Learn how to use our Student View mode and its benefits.
- [Presenter View \(Anonymized Viewing\)](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/8269337-presenter-view-anonymized-viewing.md): Learn how to use our Presenter View mode and its benefits.

## Student Guides

- [What is Kritik?](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6387869-what-is-kritik.md): Learn what Kritik is, get an introduction to the 3 stages, and find a useful video to support your success with Kritik.
- [How Does VisibleAI Work?](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/15292729-how-does-visibleai-work.md): The VisibleAI feature within Kritik helps provide transparency into how an assignment was created and developed over time.
- [How Does Authenticity Score Work?](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/15292775-how-does-authenticity-score-work.md)
- [Enrolling in a Kritik Course](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6387897-enrolling-in-a-kritik-course.md): Learn how to enroll, payment options, how to edit your account information, and notification preferences.
- [Resetting your Password](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6402937-resetting-your-password.md): Learn how to reset and change your Kritik password.
- [Opting In/Out of Text Messages](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/8499860-opting-in-out-of-text-messages.md): Find steps on how to opt in/out of text messages.
- [Language Settings in Kritik](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/13146359-language-settings-in-kritik.md): Learn how to change the language settings in your Kritik account.
- [Supported Web Browsers](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/9419780-supported-web-browsers.md)
- [How to Redeem a Coupon Code](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/10269977-how-to-redeem-a-coupon-code.md): Learn how to a redeem your coupon code \(aka access code\) when joining a Kritik course.
- [Using Kritik as an International Student & Accessing Kritik from Outside North America](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/16007006-using-kritik-as-an-international-student-accessing-kritik-from-outside-north-america.md): Tips for accessing and using Kritik smoothly when studying from outside North America.
- [Participating in a Kritik Activity](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6387956-participating-in-a-kritik-activity.md): Learn what an activity card is and how to submit to each of the 3 stages in Kritik \(Create, Evaluate, Feedback\).
- [The Intro to Kritik Activity](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/8283164-the-intro-to-kritik-activity.md): Learn about what the Intro to Kritik activity is, its purpose, and how it benefits you in your Kritik course.
- [File Submissions](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/8267479-file-submissions.md): Learn how to upload files, file upload limits when attaching work to Kritik activities, and how to view attached files in peer submissions.
- [Group Activities](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/7016754-group-activities.md): Learn about the different types of group activities in Kritik and how to see group members and leaders
- [Live Presentation Activities: A Student Guide](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/10547812-live-presentation-activities-a-student-guide.md): This guide provides a step-by-step overview of what to expect and how to participate effectively in a Live Presentation Activity.
- [Providing Well-Written Peer Evaluations](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/8215224-providing-well-written-peer-evaluations.md): Learn how to write a peer evaluation that is both critical and motivational for your peers.
- [How to Write Better Prompts in the AI Assistant \(Prompt Literacy\)](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/13889692-how-to-write-better-prompts-in-the-ai-assistant-prompt-literacy.md): A prompt is the instruction you give to an AI tool. The quality of your prompt strongly affects the quality of the output. Use the tips below to get higher-quality responses faster
- [Getting Started with Coding Authorship for students](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/16796248-getting-started-with-coding-authorship-for-students.md): This article breaks down the steps for students to get started with their Code Authorship Tracking Activities.
- [How to Evaluate Your Peer's Code Using Coding Authorship Tracking](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/16820135-how-to-evaluate-your-peer-s-code-using-coding-authorship-tracking.md): In the Evaluate stage, students will evaluate and provide written feedback on the anonymous submissions of their peers.
- [How to Use Formatting Tools in the Writing Authorship Editor](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/17301145-how-to-use-formatting-tools-in-the-writing-authorship-editor.md): Learn how to add headers, footers, a table of contents, page numbers, margins, page breaks, and hanging indents in the Writing Authorship editor based on the Writing Standards \(APA, MLA, Unspecifie...
- [Submitting, Unsubmitting, Downloading, and Attaching a File for Writing Authorship Activities](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/11322574-submitting-unsubmitting-downloading-and-attaching-a-file-for-writing-authorship-activities.md): Learn how to submit, unsubmit, download, and attach a file to your creation.
- [Participating in a Writing Authorship Activity](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/11751451-participating-in-a-writing-authorship-activity.md): Learn how to use the Writing Authorship editor to compose work. Learn about writing Insights, including what counts towards AI Revised content.
- [A Guide to Spell and Grammar Checking in the Writing Authorship Editor](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/17327254-a-guide-to-spell-and-grammar-checking-in-the-writing-authorship-editor.md): The Revise Spelling & Grammar tool finds spelling, grammar, and punctuation mistakes in a creation, then lets the author accept or reject each fix in the document — without rewriting the paper or m...
- [How to Cite Sources for Writing Authorship Activities](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/11385655-how-to-cite-sources-for-writing-authorship-activities.md): Learn how to cite sources and add references in the Writing Authorship Editor.
- [Calibration Activities](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6388493-calibration-activities.md): Learn about how calibration activities work, note they only apply to Peer Assessment activities.
- [The Grace Period](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6388475-the-grace-period.md): Learn what the grace period is and what happens when you submit a creation during the grace period.
- [Late Submissions](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6388478-late-submissions.md): Learn what the different types of late submissions are dependant on, and what late submission settings your instructor has put in place.
- [Late Accommodations for Writing Authorship Activities: Individual and Peer Assessment](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/17322775-late-accommodations-for-writing-authorship-activities-individual-and-peer-assessment.md): If your instructor grants you a late accommodation for a Writing Authorship activity, your due date and submission process will adjust automatically.
- [Understanding the Grading Scheme](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6387889-understanding-the-grading-scheme.md): Learn about your grading weight in Kritik, how to locate it in Kritik, and learn what it means. Learn how grades are calculated for Individual Writing Authorship activities \(with no peer assessment\).
- [How Scoring Works](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6388500-how-scoring-works.md): Learn how scoring works in Kritik, and how your creation, evaluation, and feedback scores are calculated.
- [Grading Power and Score Calculation in Kritik](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6845495-grading-power-and-score-calculation-in-kritik.md): Learn about what grading power is and how the grading score is calculated.
- [Disputing a Score](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6388495-disputing-a-score.md): Learn how to dispute a score.
- [Flagging Comments](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6388497-flagging-comments.md): Learn what flagging a comment is and how to submit a flagged comment.
- [Flagging Creations](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/9945407-flagging-creations.md): Learn how to flag a creation in Kritik.
- [Spotlights](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6388509-spotlights.md): Learn how to view your course's spotlights and what spotlight badges are.

## LMS Admin Guides

- [LTI Integration Setup - U.S. Schools](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/15655536-lti-integration-setup-u-s-schools.md): Integrate Kritik directly with Canvas through the Canvas App Center for U.S. institutions.
- [LTI Integration Setup - Canadian Schools](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/15655835-lti-integration-setup-canadian-schools.md): Integrate Kritik directly with Canvas through the Canvas App Center for Canadian institutions.
- [API Integration Setup - U.S. Schools](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/17118670-api-integration-setup-u-s-schools.md)
- [API Integration Setup - Canadian Schools](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/17118837-api-integration-setup-canadian-schools.md)
- [LTI Integration Setup - U.S. Schools](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/15878308-lti-integration-setup-u-s-schools.md)
- [LTI Integration Setup - Canadian Schools](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/15890491-lti-integration-setup-canadian-schools.md)
- [API Integration Setup - U.S. Schools](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/17179824-api-integration-setup-u-s-schools.md)
- [API Integration Setup - Canadian Schools](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/17184061-api-integration-setup-canadian-schools.md)
- [LTI Integration Setup - U.S. Schools](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6467346-lti-integration-setup-u-s-schools.md)
- [LTI Integration Setup - Canadian Schools](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/8086219-lti-integration-setup-canadian-schools.md)
- [LTI Integration Setup - U.S. Schools](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6467385-lti-integration-setup-u-s-schools.md)
- [LTI Integration Setup - Canadian Schools](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/6467401-lti-integration-setup-canadian-schools.md)
- [API Integration Setup - U.S. Schools](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/17712341-api-integration-setup-u-s-schools.md)
- [API Integration Setup - Canadian Schools](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/17712407-api-integration-setup-canadian-schools.md)

## Kritik Release Notes

- [Kritik Spring 2025 Release Notes](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/11526017-kritik-spring-2025-release-notes.md): The latest updates and enhancements designed to improve the user experience and functionality of the Kritik platform.
- [Kritik Fall 2024 Release Notes](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/9998842-kritik-fall-2024-release-notes.md)
- [Kritik Summer 2024 Release Notes](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/9345769-kritik-summer-2024-release-notes.md)
- [Kritik Summer 2026 Release Notes](https://help.kritik.io/en/articles/15521551-kritik-summer-2026-release-notes.md): A summary of the newest features, improvements, and changes rolled out across the Kritik platform this Summer 2026.