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Category: Academic Integrity
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Word Choice in the AI-Age
There have been some interesting articles on words used in AI writing. As I read those lists I was thinking about how this could impact me as a student or writer generally knowing that these have been called out for making me sound like an AI (I certainly don’t feel like an AI). Two recent…
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What do students say about Writing in Cursive?
Cursive Launch Webinar: You’re invited. 10/18 @ 3pm EST Last year, when I was just beginning to think about authorship verification, I was a student at the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business. As a student, a few things were clear: While designing a new tool for authorship, understanding the student perspective has always…
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3 Key Features that Set Cursive Apart
Cursive Launch Webinar: You’re invited. 10/18 @ 3pm EST Academic integrity tools for plagiarism detection offer various features to teachers and students using their products. I’ve tried, demoed, and used dozens of plagiarism detection tools over the last 15 years, administering a large-scale online English Composition course. From this review, I think that the main…
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An Ode to the Keyboard
Rethinking Authorship in the AI-era The Keyboard Cursive Launch Webinar: You’re invited. 10/18 @ 3pm EST The qwerty keyboard has been around since 1866, invented to uniformly and efficiently share information and data; it became the device of choice for interacting with computers once punch cards went out of vogue in the 1960s. Its connection…
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Writing in Cursive
The most important thing about Cursive is that you, as a writer, know whether it’s working for your account. Our extension provides you near real time transparency for your session data. We want students and writers to know that the authorship verification is working correctly for every typing style (if you are having trouble getting…
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Word Document Anonymity: Features (or Lack thereof) for Academic Integrity
This post was a collaboration by Joseph Thibault, Founder of Cursive Technology, Rahul Marri, Cybersecurity professional, and ChatGPT (July 20, 2023 version) for some readability enhancements. Introduction Imagine this classroom scenario: a student has submitted a Word document to the online classroom submission area. The tone is professional, the content exemplary, the grammar and mechanics…
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Rethinking Cheating in the Age of AI – AI for Education Webinar
July 12th we participated in the AI for Education Summer Launchpad Series for Educators webinar focused on cheating and academic integrity questions. It was a great discussion with a wonderful audience. You can check out additional webinars in the awesome series here: https://www.aiforeducation.io/ai-launchpad-webinars
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“The Invigilator” was only to get your attention.
Kidding aside, we’ve been working on a new Academic Integrity tool that uses stylometrics and event data captured during the writing process to verify students authorship across sessions. After months of training data, tuning, and development we have an MVP (minimum viable product) which is essentially a digital blue book or digital examination booklet. With…
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We want you! Join our focus group
Through interviews with faculty, nearly a decade of experience, and with help from our board of advisors and partners, Cursive has developed a new approach to prevent and detect contract cheating for written assignments. We have an initial product and technology but seek faculty, teachers, and/or administrators to join a focus group to provide feedback…