Cursive is excited to join Blackboard’s team, providing verifiable authorship with any LMS.

Author: Joseph Thibault

  • 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 Downloadable PDF report of Analytics data Assignment Submission Chart Visualization UX Improvements Update Forum titles for Writing Statistics page with more context Improvements to playback/replay feature (pasted text highlights) …

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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…

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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 and use of process tracking tools like Cursive, adds more depth to assignment submissions by keeping the component of time and student revisions…

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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 how to find it Effort Writing metrics and Analytics Playback feature Cite-source and pasted text highlighting Another resource for students is available here:…

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  • Turnitin Clarity vs Cursive

    How does the Academic Integrity Goliath stack up against this David? Cursive Turnitin Clarity Authorship verification ✅ authorship verification through TypeID ❌ Price Starts at Free Contact your Turnitin Rep Composition space for students ✅ Works in Moodle’s core text editor, deploy with a click of a button ✅ Works outside of your LMS, configure…

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  • 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 final submission. For writing without AI or pastes this is…

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  • Cursive 2.0 for Moodle

    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 https://moodle.org/plugins/tiny_cursive Learn more at https://cursivetechnology.com/moodle-integration-how-it-works/

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  • 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…

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  • 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 here: https://moodle.org/plugins/plagiarism_origai This plugin brings the power of Originality AI to Moodle through the core Moodle…

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