Category: Tips and Tools
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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…
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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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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…
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Video: AI Did Not Kill Academic Integrity, It Exposed Its Frailty: a Look at the Changing Cheating Industry
In this eLearning Magazine community chat we dive into the contract cheating industry, new trends, tools, and approaches to upholding and protecting Academic Integrity. In this episode: Listen (or watch) to the full session below:
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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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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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“AI-proofing” and other alternatives to AI detection
If you’ve been reading more AI-generated content than you care to in student submitted writing, you may find this round-up and summary helpful. https://cursivetechnology.com/ai-proofing-assignments-alternative-approaches-to-ai-detection/ We dive into different types of authentic assessments in addition to course policies that can help to proactively dispel and reduce the lure of the magic button. Included is one of…