Category: In the news
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Cursive on the Higher Ed Geek Podcast
“…how essays are not dead in the age of AI and how [Cursive] is enabling increased integrity and transparency in students’ writing.” At ASU+GSV this past April we had the pleasure of chatting with Dustin Ramsdell AKA The Higher Ed Geek which was recorded and recently published as a podcast. “I think there’s a big…
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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 is a 2026 Shore Hatchery Competitor
We’re excited to having been named a Shore Hatchery Competition competitor for Spring 2026. We hope to see you April 24th in Salisbury, MD for the pitch and demo day. For more information, visit https://www.salisbury.edu/academic-offices/business/entrepreneurship/shore-hatchery/
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Certified Integration Partnership
I’ve been using Moodle since 2007, nearly 20 years. This open source project, which underpins education and learning for 500 million students world wide, is more than a piece of software, but a real community. We’re proud to partner with Moodle to support responsible AI use while keeping authentic student learning at the centre of…
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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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Recording: Oral Assessments and Activities in the Age of AI
Justin Hunt and I had a great conversation last week–with attendees from around the world in the audience–about oral activities and how they could compliment your assessment schedule. For more information about Poodll, an amazing suite of tools for Moodle visit https://poodll.com/. A few highlights: History of Oral Assessment The foundations for AI-based oral assessment…
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Generative AI In Assessment Webinar: AI Feedback Question Type
On Wednesday November 19th, Marcus Green of Catalyst IT Europe joined me (and 100+ registered from around the world) to discuss the AI Feedback Question Type for Moodle LMS. This plugin connects student writing (short and long answer) collected through the Moodle quizzes directly to an LLM of your choice. It’s capable of providing students…
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11/19 Webinar: AI Feedback Question Type for Moodle
The Webinar Automating feedback for essays and short answers on quizzes has long been a goal for teachers and faculty. Students benefit from immediate feedback, corrections, and guidance. As flexible as it is powerful, this plugin for Moodle’s quiz module can provide students immediate and repeated feedback for written responses helping to guide students to…
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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?…