Category: Features

AI Agents in the LMS Webinar Recording on Demand

Last week, over 1,300 registrations from 141 countries signed up for my discussion with Amy Tessitore, Moodle’s Global Head of Services, about AI Agents in the LMS. 100s attended live and the recording is available to everyone: The discussion and webinar focused on a wide range of how we’re all thinking about AI usage and…
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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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Cursive 2.1.5 for Moodle LMS – Release Notes

Cursive 2.1.5 – Release Notes I’m so excited to announce the release of Cursive 2.1.5 for Moodle LMS. This release is almost 100% based on requested features from our community members, a testament to their goals, use cases, and vision/commitment to transparency in writing. Our team had a lot of fun designing, building, testing, and…
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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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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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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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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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Cursive 2.0 for Moodle

Cursive 2.0 introduces new features to our existing Authorship and Analytics plugin for Moodle Download it at https://moodle.org/plugins/tiny_cursive Learn more at https://cursivetechnology.com/moodle-integration-how-it-works/
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Cursive vs Originality.AI

We support two plugins in the Moodle.org Plugin Database: Cursive’s Authorship and Writing Analytics app and an integration to the Originality.AI API (bringing their plagiarism and AI detection services directly to forums, essays, and quizzes). What’s the difference? The current paradigm of writing verification asks simple questions: is it AI? is it original? At Cursive,…
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