The Cursive TypeID Browser Extension verifies your authorship and provides you proof of effort. It has several novel features, is easy to set up and use, and provides you with statistics and analysis about your own writing.
How to get started:
- install the Chrome Extension
- download and install the Windows or MacOS installer
- follow the directions on the extension to enroll
Features
Authentication across your Workflows
Where ever you write: Cursive documents the writing process from draft to submission and provides writers with proof of effort where only static text was previously available.
When paired with our TypeID backend on MacOS or Windows PC, you can establish complete authenticity through your typing biometrics without compromising your security or privacy: everything stays local to your computer, nothing is shared to the web.
Revision history and Analytics
For any document created with Cursive TypeID enabled (and for any Google Doc) your can Review Authorship by clicking the button that loads at the top of the page.
This will load a summary page for the document and provide a downloadable and shareable proof of effort.
This page includes several summary stats including
- UUID: this is the UUID authenticated to the extension.
- ⏲️ Total minutes: total time is calculated from the very first key to the very last, omitting any pauses of a specific duration (non-working time). Think of this as the total active writing time for this specific document.
- ✂️ Revisions: this is the total number of delete or backspace events included in your effort.
- 🚀 Total words: total number of characters that you wrote, including those that you edited out, deleted, or cut. A character is any alphanumeric key.
- Last edit: corresponding to the last time you registered any edit (even a space!) in the document.
- Playback/Review: This is either a time-lapse of the revisions you made or your writing with pasted text identified with easy to understand highlights. It may look slightly different to your actual paper due to formatting.
Your Writing Workflow, Optimized
Cursive makes it easier for you to document sources used with our bibliography feature.
We also give you a 1-click option to download a consolidated (your submission, formatted + Cursive Authorship Review) document, ready to upload to your online submission inbox or email to your teacher.
Permissions, Security, and Privacy
Everything stays local, private, and writers remain in control of their data.
Just a click to:
- Enable Cursive for you writing
- Add/remove Cursive on a single document
- Open Cursive Authorship Review
There’s no need to change your workflows or where you write to maintain authorship and integrity.
Supported Sites and Text Editors
- Google Docs (Online and Offline)
- Microsoft Office 365 (Online)
- OpenAI (ChatGPT)
- Most sites running Quill.js
- Moodle LMS – supported through plugin, browser support is coming soon
- D2L Brightspace – Coming soon
- Canvas LMS – Coming soon
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