Create a Critique It assignment

After your site administrator sets up the Critique It Assignments tool, you can create a Critique It assignment for a course.

Note the following:

  • When copying a course (with the Critique It Assignments tool enabled) to a new course offering, the Critique It configuration information must be re-added to the new course offering.
  • Annotations settings are configured per assignment.
  • The naming conventions for anonymous reviewer names is pre-defined and cannot be configured.
  • If annotations are set to private, instructors can only see their own annotations.
  • You can change the settings after creating the assignment.
  • Critique It gives access to whoever has access to the assignment link.
  • The following assets can be uploaded to a Critique It assignment:

    • text documents (DOC, DOCX, RTF, PDF, Google docs)
    • presentations (Google Slides, upload a PPT by saving as a PDF)
    • images (JPG, PNG, TIF)
    • video (MP4)
  • For documentation on using Critique It, browse to: https://critiqueit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us

To create a Critique It assignment:

  1. In Brightspace Learning Environment, navigate to a course.
  2. On the navbar, click Content.
  3. Click Existing Activities and select Critique^it Assignment.
  4. Add an assignment name and instructions.
  5. Indicate if the assignment is Graded and, if so, the Total Points.
  6. For anonymous grading, select the Hide student name checkbox. The names are replaced by random words.
  7. Choose Asset Visibility and Annotation Visibility settings. For example:
    • To provide blind peer reviews, set Asset Visibility to Open and Annotation Visibility to Hidden.

    • To provide open peer reviews, set Asset Visibility to Open and Annotation Visibility to Public.

    • To provide hidden feedback to all learners and later release that feedback at once, set Asset Visibility to Closed and Annotation Visibility to Hidden. When ready to release instructor feedback to the entire class, change Annotation Visibility to Private.

  8. Click Save.