Kritik360
What is Kritik360
Kritik360 (often just called Kritik) is an AI-powered, peer-to-peer interactive learning platform used in higher education to build critical thinking and communication skills. It enables instructors to implement a 360-degree feedback loop where students create assignments, evaluate their classmates’ work, and provide feedback on the evaluations they receive.
What is the purpose of Kritik360
The purpose of Kritik360 is to improve higher education students' critical thinking, evaluation, and communication skills by shifting them from passive learners to active assessors.
By guiding students through a 360-degree feedback loop, where they anonymously create assignments, grade their peers' work using structured rubrics, and provide feedback on the evaluations they receive, the tool deepens their understanding of course material and helps them internalize grading standards. Ultimately, it aims to scale personalized, high-quality feedback in large classrooms while saving instructors significant time on manual grading.
How to use Kritik360
Kritik is available to Western faculty and students in OWL Brightspace. Through the OWL Brightspace integration, instructors can set up Kritik activities within their course modules. The integration automatically syncs class rosters and assignment scores directly into the OWL Brightspace course gradebook.
Once the course is connected with the OWL Brightspace course, the instructor can send out invitations to the Kritik site via Roster Sync.
Where to find Support
This tool is not centrally supported
Help and Documentation
- Instructors can find further information on using Kritik360 in the tool's Instructor Guide documentation.
- Students can find further information on using Kritik360 in the tool's Student Guide documentation.
Security and Privacy
This tool has been formally reviewed by Western’s Technology Risk Assessment Committee
Security and Privacy Flags
Information Collection
- Application collects information that could identify the user specifically (email address, class schedule, etc..)
EULA
- Application's Terms of Conditions or End User License Agreement poses a risk of binding the institution to an agreement thereby requiring legal counsel to review the application. However, this is mitigated as it has undergone legal review during the Technology Risk Assessment process.
Cost and Approval
- The application may require the instructor to enter credit card information
- The application may require students to enter credit card information
Integration
- This application saves grading information independently from OWL
- This application transmits data (grades, student data, etc...) to or from a Western system of record
Last Updated: June 9, 2026
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Topic at a Glance
Kritik360 (often just called Kritik) is an AI-powered, peer-to-peer interactive learning platform used in higher education to build critical thinking and communication skills.
