Category: Tips and Tools
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A Digital Blue Book for Assessing Students through Writing
Students sit in rows, pencils sharpened, erasers at the ready, desktops and tables cleared. A volunteer student hands stacks of paper notebooks to each student sitting at one end. The student dutifully takes one, and passes the rest down the row, each student repeating the exercise until it reaches the other end of the room…
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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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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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Academic Integrity For All – Webinar Recording
On August 26th, 2025 Cursive and Brain Station 23 sponsored a panel webinar. The event was introduced by Max Espley, APAC and Canada Channel Manager, Moodle HQ. Our panelists included: RJ Amador is formerly master instructor at the US Naval Academy and has taught dozens of courses from English Composition to Business Law Rollin Guyden…
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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/
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Turnitin Clarity vs Cursive
How does the Academic Integrity Goliath stack up against this David? Cursive Turnitin Clarity Authorship verification ✅ authorship verification through TypeID ❌ Price Starts at Free Contact your Turnitin Rep Composition space for students ✅ Works in Moodle’s core text editor, deploy with a click of a button ✅ Works outside of your LMS, configure…