Category: Machine Learning

  • Writing in Cursive

    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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  • Journaling Exercise (complete one for weekly emails)

    Journaling Exercise (complete one for weekly emails)

    To facilitate continuous testing and the introduction of new features we’ve been posting weekly journaling exercises with quick prompts for participants. In a student setting, these low risk, low effort tasks help to get students writing similar to impromptus or other open ended prompts. I’ve had a fun time reflecting on how I might spend…

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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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  • “Indistinguishable from magic.”

    “Indistinguishable from magic.”

    We’ve been blown away by the results from our model based on the training data that you all have shared. THANK YOU. It gave us goose bumps to see it in action verifying us as an individuals again and again across sessions. We’re thrilled at the potentialities and ramifications that Cursive could bring to bear…

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  • Training Day (Help us get some training data)

    Updated 2/22/23 We’re capturing training data for Cursive, if you could, use the links below to self-enroll and then complete both assignments (in order, you may find that you need to come back to this post to click Assignment 2, it will not automatically be added to your account). All you have to do is…

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  • Writing Biometrics and Academic Integrity

    Writing Biometrics and Academic Integrity

    The digital footprint of who is sitting in front of a computer today may be detected in more ways than one might expect. Beyond just user authentication, this includes, IP address, geolocation, internet service provider, internet cookies, ping time, and ability to complete complex tasks. Perhaps you have seen one of these before: CAPTCHA, also…

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