Category: Posts
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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 Series #2: Oral Assessment & Activities in the Age of AI
This January 21st at 8am EST, good friend of Cursive, Justin Hunt, the founder and owner of Poodll, and I will host a webinar focused on oral exercises, activities, and assessment. Justin is a long time developer and champion of language learning with a focus on multimedia (video, audio, recordings) to engage students throughout the…
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Essential Moodle Settings & Plugins for Valid and Secure Assessment
It used to be that writing in Moodle, Canvas, D2L, and Blackboard sucked. For most, it still does: the text editors feel like afterthoughts and are best used to “paste” text written elsewhere. Recently, a Canvas exec at a conference told me he “would never recommend students write in our editor.” Not a good look…
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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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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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Interpreting Cursive Analytics
A few notes on analytics: *A deeper look at Effort as a new measure for writing: Effort Effort is a new calculation made possible by having access to both the student writing process and the final static text or submission. With Cursive’s focus on the writing process, additional relevant and important information is quantified…
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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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2025 Spring Semester Success
We’re off to a hot start with pilots and customers using Cursive: 1,000+ Students Authenticated K12, college, and university sites around the world (Australia, North America, South America, and Asia) are using Cursive to verify student authorship. 5,000+ Assignments Verified From discussion posts to online assignments and essays on quizzes: a variety of writing assignment-types were…
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Originality API Plagiarism Plugin now supports Moodle 5.0
Our efforts to provide academic integrity tools at the lowest cost possible continues and we’re proud to announce the update of our API-based plagiarism and AI detection plugin for Moodle has been upgraded to support Moodle 5.0. Download it here: https://moodle.org/plugins/plagiarism_origai This plugin brings the power of Originality AI to Moodle through the core Moodle…