Category: Contract Cheating

  • 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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  • Video: AI Did Not Kill Academic Integrity, It Exposed Its Frailty: a Look at the Changing Cheating Industry

    In this eLearning Magazine community chat we dive into the contract cheating industry, new trends, tools, and approaches to upholding and protecting Academic Integrity. In this episode: Listen (or watch) to the full session below:

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  • Cursive’s Joseph Thibault on the Opposite of Cheating podcast

    Cursive’s Joseph Thibault on the Opposite of Cheating podcast

    30 minutes with the University of Tulsa’s David Rettinger covers our CEO’s progression from “integrity-curious” to founding Cursive in order to address a major gap in academic integrity: individual authorship verification. https://www.theoppositeofcheating.com/post/joseph-thibault This session covers: Check out David and co-author Dr. Tricia Bertram-Gallant’s book, The Opposite of Cheating and get a copy today (a must

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  • Rethinking Cheating in the Age of AI – AI for Education Webinar

    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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  • Google Ads and Essay Mills

    Last year I created a database of English language essay mill sites as a method to learn about the industry and to create a readily available list for institutions to utilized in the case they wanted to ‘blacklist’ the URLs from their campus networks (this is often listed as good practice for combating essay mills).

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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

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  • Free Infographic: “Best Practices for Academic Integrity”

    I value every conversation that I had with the teachers and staff that contributed to the list of tips, tricks, policies, and activities that we can do to create a culture of integrity in the classroom. So to each of the interviewees, and the many excellent articles online, thank you. This Infographic is a little

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  • Contract Cheating Sites to Blacklist

    One of the best practices for promoting integrity on campus and preventing cheating–or at least limiting the opportunity to engage in these 3rd party sites–is to block the known contact cheating sites. There are a lot, but we’ve done our best to create and maintain a list of those sites actively advertising to your students

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