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11/19 Webinar: AI Feedback Question Type for Moodle

REGISTER The Webinar Automating feedback for essays and short answers on quizzes has long been a goal for teachers and faculty. Students benefit from immediate…

https://cursivetechnology.com/11-19-webinar-ai-feedback-question-type-for-moodle/

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Welcome to Denver, ICAI!

We're excited to join the International Council for Academic Integrity members, attendees, presenters, and vendors in Denver for ICAI's 2026 Annual Conference as a sponsor. Come Meet Us We'll be at our Booth in the vendor area with…

https://cursivetechnology.com/icai2026/

This isn't fine | Joseph Thibault | Substack How do you disrupt contract cheating? Together, with action, one at a time. Click to read This isn't fine, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

tomorrow is the 2025 International Day of Action for academic integrity, FKA day of action AGAINST contract cheating: if you want to whack some essay mills tune into thisisntfine.substack.com

and if you want a full day of events academicintegrity.org/aws/ICAI/pt/... #IDoA2025 #everydayintegrity

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Comet Browser Vs Cursive in Moodle

Perplexity's Comet browser made headlines these past few weeks with it's ease of use and agentic capabilities to take over control of your browser to complete courses across LMSes: in Canvas,…

https://cursivetechnology.com/comet-browser-vs-cursive-in-moodle/

Starter for Moodle Cursive's for Moodle provides process tracking and authorship verification for writing in forums, quizzes, and online assignments. Works where you want it, fully transparent, and non-invasive.

Starter for Moodle

Cursive's for Moodle provides process tracking and authorship verification for writing in forums, quizzes, and online assignments. Works where you want it, fully transparent, and non-invasive.

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Cursive 2.1 Release – September 2025

We've been hard at work and continue to push the envelope of features for Moodle's 1st (and best) Authorship and writing process tool: Cursive. New Features Downloadable PDF report of Analytics…

https://cursivetechnology.com/cursive-2-1-release-september-2025/

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Academic Integrity For All – Webinar Recording

On August 26th, 2025 Cursive and Brain Station 23 sponsored a panel webinar. The event was introduced by Max Espley, APAC and Canada Channel Manager, Moodle HQ. Our panelists…

https://cursivetechnology.com/academic-integrity-for-all-webinar-recording/

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Making Writing Three Dimensional

What value does a static .doc file uploaded to an assignment inbox have? (Not much for valid assessments). The shift to dynamic documents, including shared versions of Google Docs or Microsoft Word…

https://cursivetechnology.com/making-writing-three-dimensional/

Free webinar focused on #academicintegrity tools and policies for this coming semester, on a budget.

August 26th at 8am EST use the QR code to register (special focus on #Moodle)

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Student Overview for Cursive

This quick video shows the student perspective and "Writing Statistics" page available for all students to see their own data for all Cursive-enabled submissions. In it we cover: Writing Statistics page and…

https://cursivetechnology.com/student-overview-for-cursive/

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Turnitin Clarity vs Cursive

How does the Academic Integrity Goliath stack up against this David? Cursive Turnitin Clarity1 Authorship verification ✅ authorship verification through TypeID ❌ Price Starts at Free Contact your Turnitin Rep…

https://cursivetechnology.com/turnitin-clarity-vs-cursive/

Interpreting Cursive Analytics

A few notes on analytics: Authorship: this is our ML model ensuring the same student is the author. An initial sample is required from students for this to work. Effort: this is calculated as "verbosity" (total typing activity) divided by the character count in the…

Cursive 2.0 for Moodle Cursive 2.0 introduces new features to our existing Authorship and Analytics plugin for Moodle Free to install, free features to use locally (no API connection required) Replay revision history (free process tracking) Complete transparency (free student-facing notifications) Assignment-by-assignment deployment (free use it only where you want) Download it at Learn more at

Cursive 2.0 for Moodle

Cursive 2.0 introduces new features to our existing Authorship and Analytics plugin for Moodle Free to install, free features to use locally (no API connection required) Replay revision history (free process tracking) Complete transparency (free student-facing notifications)…

2025 Spring Semester Success We're off to a hot start with pilots and customers using Cursive: 1,000+ Students Authenticated K12, college, and university sites around the world (Australia, North America, South America, and Asia) are using Cursive to verify student authorship. 5,000+ Assignments Verified From discussion posts to online assignments and essays on quizzes: a variety of writing assignment-types were verified to confirm student outcomes and provide near real-time feedback to evaluators and students without the need for AI detection software.

2025 Review - Cursive by the numbers:
1,000 students
5,000 assignments
2,000,000 words

Originality API Plagiarism Plugin now supports Moodle 5.0

Our efforts to provide academic integrity tools at the lowest cost possible continues and we're proud to announce the update of our API-based plagiarism and AI detection plugin for Moodle has been upgraded to support Moodle 5.0. Download it…

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Changing trends in cheating: a look at the industry of cheating, cheating tools, and AI services including Essay Mills, Interview Cheats, Humanizers, etc...…

https://cursivetechnology.com/video-ai-did-not-kill-academic-integrity-it-exposed-its-frailty-a-look-at-the-changing-cheating-industry/

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This this episode: biometrics, authorship, detection, policies, #academicintegrity, process tracking, financial aid fraud and so. much. more.

https://cursivetechnology.com/edup-podcast-why-ai-has-made-process-more-important-than-product-in-education/

Cursive’s Joseph Thibault on the Opposite of Cheating podcast 30 minutes with the University of Tulsa's David Rettinger covers our CEO's progression from "integrity-curious" to founding Cursive in order to address a major gap in academic integrity: individual authorship verification. This session covers: contract cheating assessment validity academic integrity authorship typing biometrics essay mill research and much more... Check out David and co-author Dr. Tricia Bertram-Gallant's book, The Opposite of Cheating and get a copy today (a must read for anyone interested in Academic Integrity).

Cursive’s Joseph Thibault on the Opposite of Cheating podcast

30 minutes with the University of Tulsa's David Rettinger covers our CEO's progression from "integrity-curious" to founding Cursive in order to address a major gap in academic integrity: individual authorship verification. This session…

Pitch Dingman Finalist

Cursive, from a field of many, was selected as a finalist for the Alumni Track of 10th Annual Pitch Dingman Competition. From the event announcement: Pitch Dingman Competition, the University of Maryland’s signature annual venture competition, showcases the university’s most…

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Cursive vs Originality.AI

We support two plugins in the Moodle.org Plugin Database: Cursive's Authorship and Writing Analytics app and an integration to the Originality.AI API (bringing their plagiarism and AI detection services directly to…

https://cursivetechnology.com/cursive-vs-originality-ai/

Webinar 2/26 @ 4pm “Biometric Key Logging in Authentic Learning Environments – New Paper Discussion”

Register Join Joseph Thibault and Anissa Sorokin for a short discussion of their new paper which discusses the history and potential of typing biometrics in learning and writing. The authors will…

ReThinking As an organizational psychologist, Adam Grant believes that great minds don't think alike; they challenge each other to think differently. In Re:Thinking with Adam Grant, he has lively discussions and...

Adam Grant interview w/ Sam A: when asked whether students using AI as a crutch for #writing was bad... "for me writing is outsourced thinking and very important. But as long as people replace a better way to do their thinking with a new kind of writing, that seems directionally fine."

thoughts?

Press Release: Open LMS Announces New Partnership With Cursive to Ensure Academic Integrity in Student Writing

“Over the last 15 years, as a scaled higher ed program administrator, I searched for a solution to the intractable problem of tying submitted writing to the enrolled student and I’m…

A lot of research, significant technology development, and lots of code review have led to this awesome moment. Thank you Open LMS!

We're excited to be a partner and fostering a positive learning environment for students! #academicintegrity #writingisthinking

Literature Review and Summarization Writing Assignment in Moodle with Cursive (writing with transparency)

not all heroes wear capes. #academicintegrity

Takedown #30: Assignment Writer (1/27/25) Click me

#academicintegrity #takedown thisisntfine.substack.com/p/takedown-3...

1 click is a small price to pay for fewer essay mill ads on the 'net

The Less People Know About AI, the More They Like It You might assume that tech-savvy people are the most open to using AI, but research suggests it's actually those who are least familiar with it.

www.wired.com/story/the-le... imo this explains a lot about our rapid adoption of AI tools for things like reading and writing...

‘Human Authored’ in Dirty Word Magazine

I've got a new column in "Dirty Word" (a nod to the out of date terminology -- elearning -- describing most learning that happens today). This periodical (a digital magazine with a physical option) is a wonderful collection of tips, commentary, reflections,…

Ironically, savvy students are working in these environments already knowing that revision history / process tracking is one of the only methods they'll have to exonerate themselves in the case of a false accusation.