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:
1. Chrome Extension
Add Cursive TypeID Chrome Extension with just a single click from the Marketplace page. Once added we recommend “pinning” it for easy access (click the puzzle piece next to your URL bar, then the thumbtack 📌 icon). Not a Chrome user? TypeID works on any Chromium-based browser, including Edge, Atlas, & Comet.
2. Desktop Application
Use the links below to get access to the MacOS or Windows desktop application (this is the engine that verifies authorship for your writing). If you’re enrolled at an institution we’re working with, this is free to download (look for a code from your teacher). Otherwise use the link to purchase.
3. Setup in Minutes
Once installation is complete Cursive will walk you through the the onboarding process step-by-step. When you’re ready, click “Start Setup” to complete the enrollment process privately and securely by typing naturally. It takes just 1-2 minutes and will show “OK” / “verified” once complete.
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 “Active” or “Verified” button that loads at the top of the page or “Review Authorship” button on the popup.
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
- 💪 Effort: effort is total verbosity (all the work you did during the process) divided by the total characters in the final text (the product). This helps to illustrate the depth of your editing (and yes, you really can put in 110% effort to writing, even more!).
- ⏲️ 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)
- Substack
- Most sites running Quill.js
- Moodle LMS
- D2L Brightspace
- Canvas LMS
- Blackboard LMS
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