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Learn how Kritik enhances student learning by complementing auto-graded assignments with peer assessment, boosting engagement, collaboration, and reducing instructor workload.

Address online teaching challenges with effective strategies. Learn how to engage students, manage time, and ensure inclusivity in virtual classrooms.

Find out how to detect AI content and create assignments that ensure students utilize their creativity, critical thinking, and understanding of the coursework.

Discover 12 innovative ways instructors can use OpenAI to transform assessments. Explore strategies to enhance student learning and promote critical thinking.

Looking to ensure accuracy in peer assessment? Check out our article on creating rubric criteria to improve the consistency and objectivity of student grading.

Discover how Kritik's peer assessment platform goes beyond the limitations of traditional LMS systems to improve student engagement and critical thinking skills.

Transform your students' learning outcomes with peer-to-peer feedback through Kritik. Check out our guide to implementing Kritik as a powerful peer learning tool.

Discover expert tips and best practices to facilitate effective discussions on implementing peer assessment in your classroom with resources provided by Kritik.

See what students are saying about Kritik in our latest survey that was filled out by 1200+ users. Read about what student enjoy about the peer assessment process.

See examples of how to implement Constructivist activities that enhance problem-solving and collaboration in your classroom to enhance learning outcomes.

Cultivate a supportive learning environment with peer assessment. Read practical tips and insights to help reduce fear and anxiety in your classroom using Kritik.

Create an engaging asynchronous learning experience with peer assessment. These tips and best practices can help improve learning outcomes in your courses.

Discover effective strategies to prevent instructor burnout. Learn how implementing peer assessment can help you balance your workload and focus your time.

Revamp your classroom with 8 expert tips to make peer-to-peer feedback effective! Read more about how Kritik offers practical solutions to enhance learning outcomes.

Take your teaching to the next level with Bloom's Taxonomy! Explore how Kritik helps to create effective learning experiences that inspire critical thinking.

Find out how to boost student engagement with these five interactive activities. Discover practical strategies to get better learning outcomes in online courses.

Learn how to engage students in asynchronous and hybrid courses. See examples of how to create a virtual classroom that promotes collaboration and inclusivity.

Learn how peer assessment equips students with practical skills for success in the real world and develops critical skills including communication and collaboration.

Students surveyed wanted their professor to have the final say over their grades with the ability to override any student assessment, and they were seeking a more fulfilling assessment experience prioritizing the learning and opportunity for feedback over the specific grade.

The main concern with these summer courses is that the learning environment primes students to encode most of the knowledge they’ve gained as short-term memory. Given the relatively short timeframe of these courses and the mental stress that comes with it, traditional pedagogies used in full terms are not as effective at developing and enhancing student’s long-term memory (Vogel & Schwabe, 2016). Oftentimes, summer courses are still structured in a manner where students complete cumulative assignments that only use lower-level thinking such as memorization. Although this promotes the improvement of students’ knowledge retrieval, the retention of the information gained greatly decays over time as the mental process of fast-paced learning mostly engages the brain’s hippocampus which is where new memories are formed and retrieved from (Jonides & al., 2008; Schapiro & al., 2017; VanElzakker, 2008). 

Delivering information in a manner that is clear, concise and insightful while providing an audience with great learning opportunities are important components for successful presentations. Today, presentation skills are a basic requirement of every field, and students must practise and aim for mastery in preparation for the workplace.

One of the most common misconceptions about peer evaluation is that it opens up opportunities for unqualified students to grade one another which leads to an increased amount of grade disputes. However, in reality, peer evaluation does the opposite and significantly reduces grade disputes as a result of multiple perspective reasoning brought by open peer-to-peer discourse

Assessments are educators’ different methods and tools to measure, evaluate, and track students’ academic preparedness and skill acquisition, learning progress, and educational needs. In this blog post, we will discuss the different types of assessments and their purposes.

"What if we changed these ‘disposable assignments’ into activities which actually added value to the world? Then students and faculty might feel different about the time and effort they invested in them" (Wiley, 2013)

"even at one of the most prestigious universities of the world, you cannot take student motivation for granted" (Van de Veen, 2015)

In light of the mass transition to online learning caused by the pandemic, academia has experienced major obstacles and dilemmas regarding instructional strategies and assessment procedures in remote environments.

Feedback is an integral part of students’ learning process and academic growth. However, faculty resources are limited and a large amount of professors’ time is spent towards grading.

Gamification in education - Why it works

Creating curriculum. Creating lectures that are both engaging and informative. Grading papers and exams. Holding office hours.

Peer assessment is a powerful tool instructors can utilize to help students learn, analyze, and engage more deeply in their understanding of course content.

Universal design for learning is a framework. It is meant to help provide guidelines for people in charge of educating students.

6 Culturally Responsive Pedagogy strategies to boost student engagement

7 ways to implement online peer assessment

6 ways peer assessment can enhance student learning online

Help your students bloom online

Learn tips on how to teach online with empathy

How the flipped classroom approach benefits students & how to implement it for your in-person or online class.

What is active learning & how it benefits students.

We outline the bias present in grading today & provide tips for instructors to make grading more fair and equitable for their students.

Here are some tips to help you and your students prepare for online video classes

Tips for educators on reducing start-of-year stress & how Kritik can help

COVID impacted students' learning; see how you can foster an equitable learning environment for your students.

We break down how educators can prepare for Hyflex courses this fall.

See how Team-Based Learning improves learning outcomes for students all through peer feedback.

Learn tips on how to reduce the prevalence of cheating for your online exams.

How to avoid burnout & better manage your time when you're teaching from home.

These are the soft skills college students need to develop in order to thrive in the workforce.

Which style of learning is best for students studying online? Find our more.

Learn how to use Curation Activities to help students develop Higher-Order Thinking skills.

How can you as an instructor measure the effectiveness of your teaching when you have over 300 students? Find out more.

How to ensure students are engaged and interactive throughout the term, not just in your classroom.

Learn what you need to do to maximize the results of your peer evaluations

Learn how Peer Assessment helps students develop critical thinking skills with Bloom's Taxonomy.

Critical and motivational feedback feedback increases productivity, overall knowledge retention and more quality in students work.

Building a rubric from scratch can seem like a very daunting task. Rubric-based assessments are a useful tool for a variety of reasons:

There is no secret formula that will improve academic achievement for students. If it had been there it would definitely differ by faculty. The purpose of this article is to lay out theories which have actually worked; real studies that are directly achieving results.

If you spend 20+ hours grading papers or assignments, then you know how powerful it is to have automated online grading software that works

Cumulative assignments can be transformed into smaller segments of peer evaluation that will ultimately help your students produce a higher quality final assignment.