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Kritik

Tool Overview:

Kritik offers a more structured peer review and evaluation experience. It uses advanced programming to assess the quality of a student's review/evaluation skills and weights their effort accordingly. 

Category: Open Discussion Peer Assessment
Pedagogical Uses: Blended Learning Experiential Peer Learning
Queen's Security Assessment completed: No
Link to Tool:

Availability: Browser-based Mobile-friendly

Advantages:

  • Allows for quantitative analysis of peer evaluations
  • Grading is automated and more detailed than other platforms
  • Customizable rubrics available for each phase of the activity

Limitations:

  • Limited customization in activities
  • Anonymity still limited to the files submitted (Word documents are not stripped of identifying information)
  • Pricing is rather steep compared to other platforms (at the time of writing)
  • LTI connectivity limited with Brightspace
  • The full platform experience requires multiple activities run over multiple courses

This tool is available to: Student license must be purchased

This tool can be integrated with: No Integration

Gradebook Integration: No

Gradebook can be exported: Yes

Classlist full integration with onQ: No

Class roster and groups need to be updated manually if onQ changes: Yes

WCAG 2.0 Compliance
wcag2 - Yes

  • All users can convey information as per Universal Design For Learning guidelines in a variety of formats.

    Students can submit via textbox or file upload which allows for some freedom, however the activity is restricted to certain filetypes

  • Users cannot customize the display of information in multiple ways as per UDL guidelines.
  • No tool features allow for individual accommodation settings

No tool features are compatible with screen readers

Alt text is supported on images in this tool.

VPAT states that any meaningful images have alt text. Activity works mostly with text, however any files are submitted as attachments and there doesn't appear to be a place to input alt text when uploading. 

Caption Features Availability
For Live Video Live Captions - N/A Not Applicable
For Pre-Recorded Pre-recorded Captions - Yes Yes
Are Automatically Generated Auto-Generated Captions - No No
Are Editable Caption Editing - No No
Are SRT/WebVTT Importable Importable Captions - Yes Yes

Navigation Features Availability
Keyboard Keyboard Navigation - Yes Yes
Mouse Mouse Navigation - Yes Yes

Support available through: Vendor Support

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