Category: Resources
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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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Yes, You Can Detect AI Agents in Your LMS.
How do I know? Because I’ve done it. Blackboard published a post late in 2025 which concluded (emphasis is mine): AI Agents don’t show up as separate apps or users—they look identical to normal student activity in the LMS. Because they operate at the web interaction and automation layers—filling in forms, clicking buttons, making API…
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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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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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Student Overview for Cursive
This quick video shows the student perspective and “Writing Statistics” page available for all students to see their own data for all Cursive-enabled submissions. In it we cover: Another resource for students is available here: https://cursivetechnology.com/cursive-analytics-and-reporting/ A static, student friendly overview is available here: https://cursivetechnology.com/my-writing-report/