Author: Joseph Thibault
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Cursive in NBC News Report
I (Joseph Thibault, CEO of Cursive) recently provided background and information to Tyler Kingkade of NBC News for his article published in January 2026. The article, which dives into the rapidly changing environment for teachers and students in the classroom, especially at the college-level, helps to shine a light on the deteriorating trust between colleges,…
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Recording: Oral Assessments and Activities in the Age of AI
Justin Hunt and I had a great conversation last week–with attendees from around the world in the audience–about oral activities and how they could compliment your assessment schedule. For more information about Poodll, an amazing suite of tools for Moodle visit https://poodll.com/. A few highlights: History of Oral Assessment The foundations for AI-based oral assessment…
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Generative AI in Assessment Series #2: Oral Assessment & Activities in the Age of AI
This January 21st at 8am EST, good friend of Cursive, Justin Hunt, the founder and owner of Poodll, and I will host a webinar focused on oral exercises, activities, and assessment. Justin is a long time developer and champion of language learning with a focus on multimedia (video, audio, recordings) to engage students throughout the…
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Essential Moodle Settings & Plugins for Valid and Secure Assessment
It used to be that writing in Moodle, Canvas, D2L, and Blackboard sucked. For most, it still does: the text editors feel like afterthoughts and are best used to “paste” text written elsewhere. Recently, a Canvas exec at a conference told me he “would never recommend students write in our editor.” Not a good look…
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Generative AI In Assessment Webinar: AI Feedback Question Type
On Wednesday November 19th, Marcus Green of Catalyst IT Europe joined me (and 100+ registered from around the world) to discuss the AI Feedback Question Type for Moodle LMS. This plugin connects student writing (short and long answer) collected through the Moodle quizzes directly to an LLM of your choice. It’s capable of providing students…
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11/19 Webinar: AI Feedback Question Type for Moodle
The Webinar Automating feedback for essays and short answers on quizzes has long been a goal for teachers and faculty. Students benefit from immediate feedback, corrections, and guidance. As flexible as it is powerful, this plugin for Moodle’s quiz module can provide students immediate and repeated feedback for written responses helping to guide students to…
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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 demos, information, stickers, socks, and more. If you’re willing to accept Cursive’s Authorship verification from students in…
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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, Moodle, and elsewhere. We’ve already tested Manus, Claude, and OpenAI Operator, so we recently put Comet to the test against Cursive. What is Comet?…
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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 UX Improvements Admin Updates
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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 included: RJ Amador is formerly master instructor at the US Naval Academy and has taught dozens of courses from English Composition to Business Law Rollin Guyden…