Category: Academic Integrity
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Moodle.com Webinar: AI Agents and Learning
Moodle, the largest Learning Management System by users and sites, is hosting a webinar on Tuesday, May 5 at 12:00 PM EST focused on AI Agents. Agents and cheating tools in the LMS have been a hot topic here, on our Substack, and elsewhere. I’m excited to join the Moodle HQ team to for a webinar about…
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Cursive TypeID 1.2.1 – Release Notes
Hoo boy. We’ve been at work day and night and are releasing our best version of Cursive TypeID yet. This release has something for everyone: improvements for teachers, improvements for students, improvements for writers, and improvements for email security. No matter why or how you’re using Cursive TypeID, upgrade today to support, protect, and showcase…
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A Digital Blue Book for Assessing Students through Writing
Students sit in rows, pencils sharpened, erasers at the ready, desktops and tables cleared. A volunteer student hands stacks of paper notebooks to each student sitting at one end. The student dutifully takes one, and passes the rest down the row, each student repeating the exercise until it reaches the other end of the room…
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Yes, You Can Detect AI Agents in Your LMS.
How do I know? Because I’ve done it. Blackboard published a post late in 2025 which concluded (emphasis is mine): AI Agents don’t show up as separate apps or users—they look identical to normal student activity in the LMS. Because they operate at the web interaction and automation layers—filling in forms, clicking buttons, making API…
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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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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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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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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: Another resource for students is available here: https://cursivetechnology.com/cursive-analytics-and-reporting/ A static, student friendly overview is available here: https://cursivetechnology.com/my-writing-report/
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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…