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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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  • 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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  • Press Release: Open LMS Announces New Partnership With Cursive to Ensure Academic Integrity in Student Writing

    “Over the last 15 years, as a scaled higher ed program administrator, I searched for a solution to the intractable problem of tying submitted writing to the enrolled student and I’m excited and proud to work with Open LMS to introduce our solution to its client base,” said Joseph Thibault, Cursive Founder and CEO. “Cursive…

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  • Literature Review and Summarization Exercise in Moodle with Cursive

    For a long time, asking students to write in Moodle was a risky endeavor. A lot has changed over the last decade though and Moodle’s become a fine place for student writing to happen. This is a product of improvements to: In a recent conversation with a school, they posed a unique and interesting assignment…

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  • ‘Human Authored’ in Dirty Word Magazine

    I’ve got a new column in “Dirty Word” (a nod to the out of date terminology — elearning — describing most learning that happens today). This periodical (a digital magazine with a physical option) is a wonderful collection of tips, commentary, reflections, and news all gussied up with professional graphic design. You can subscribe here:…

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  • See Cursive in Dirty Word Vol 6

    Cursive makes its print-ad debut opposite a column by Founder and CEO, Joseph Thibault: https://www.dirtywordmag.com/issue-6 Dirty Word is an elearning ‘zine promoting pedagogy, learning, tech, and fun. The primarily digital offering (you can purchase a physical print copy as well) is a well organized, high-production quality, resource for instructional designers, LMS administrators, faculty, and educators

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  • ENAI Academic Integrity Startup Fair

    Cursive is presenting alongside other academic integrity startups at the first ENAI Fair on Monday December 16th (7am EST). The event is free to attend, register today: This is a free event sponsored/coordinated by the European Network for Academic Integrity (ENAI), which is the same fine organization which called on big tech to be a…

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  • Point-Counterpoint Assignment

    AI Assessment Scale – Level 4 – Full AI This assignment was made with the AI Assessment Scale in mind, helping students to leverage AI in a clearly defined way and expose them to thinking critically about AI output–all while retaining a view of student edits and effort. This assignment is possible in any text…

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  • 100 Word Essay Winner!

    Congratulations to our inaugural 100 Word Essay Winners: NG from the University of Maryland – College Park received the top award selected by our judges, NK, also from the University of Maryland was our randomly selected winner.  Four campuses participated in the contest: University of Maryland – College Park, Johns Hopkins University, University of Missouri,…

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  • What do students say about Writing in Cursive? 

    Cursive Launch Webinar: You’re invited. 10/18 @ 3pm EST Last year, when I was just beginning to think about authorship verification, I was a student at the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business. As a student, a few things were clear:  While designing a new tool for authorship, understanding the student perspective has always…

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