Kritik360 vs Marka

Kritik360 is a web-based peer assessment product that helps students give constructive feedback on classmates’ work. Students assess peers anonymously with rubrics and can respond to feedback on their own evaluations. Instructors can upload a syllabus for AI to generate customizable assignments and rubrics, and calibration helps align student grading with an instructor’s baseline. The service integrates with learning management systems through LTI 1.3, supporting single sign-on, roster sync, and grade sync. Listed systems include Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard Ultra, Brightspace by D2L, Coursera, Schoology, Google Classroom, and Microsoft Teams (O365). Kritik advertises instructional designer and onboarding specialist support, plus 24/7 live chat. It says its services are hosted on AWS, data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and storage is in Canada or the United States according to the institution’s location. Educator access is free. Kritik Scholar costs $29, paid once per student per course for one product; the page lists $49 for a two-product bundle. K-12 students get the first term free.

Marka is peer evaluation software for teachers collecting rubric-based feedback on classroom group work and producing consolidated reports. Teachers can create reusable analytic or holistic rubrics with their own scoring scales and criterion indicators. Students see aggregate results and unattributed public notes, not individual peer scores. Results and notes stay hidden until at least three evaluators submit, unless a teacher overrides the threshold for a student. A teacher-only Peer Integrity Engine flags patterns such as free-riding, mismatched self-ratings, rushed scoring, cliques, and rater bias; it does not change scores automatically. Reports can include dashboards, CSV exports, cross-period comparisons, printable reports, and gradebook-ready exports. Teachers import rosters from CSV, and students enter with teacher-issued seven-character codes without creating accounts or providing email addresses. Marka works without an LMS connection and is available on the web and through a lightweight Android app. Its free Basic plan supports up to 3 classes and 50 students per class, with full report preview only.