Cursive 2.1.5 – Release Notes

I’m so excited to announce the release of Cursive 2.1.5 for Moodle LMS. 

This release is almost 100% based on requested features from our community members, a testament to their goals, use cases, and vision/commitment to transparency in writing. 

Our team had a lot of fun designing, building, testing, and using these features, which are now live for all Cursive users (upgrade your site today). Where applicable, release items which are supported in our free version (no API) are noted. 

Release notes: 

Major Features

Student Dashboard – one of the best things about writing data is that it helps to quantify the toil, difficulty, and time that writing takes. We think students and teachers should celebrate writing just as an athlete might celebrate their personal best. Our new student dashboard brings an updated look and feel to writing history on Moodle, including metrics over time and assignment, aggregate stats, and more. 

Student-facing Analytics – transparency is foundational to a culture of integrity. Teachers now have an option to provide student access to analytics for each assignment, rather than limiting them to the student’s profile (above). When enabled, students can view their own analytics from discussion boards, on the lesson review, assignment page, or quiz review. 

Even Better Autosave [free] – During an internet disconnection, we actively ensure that any information from the student writing process is buffered until the internet is restored (as long as it’s restored while the student’s tab is active. This means less lost data, more automatic saves, and complete Cursive analytics and replay for every submission, even in high-latency or laggy connections. 

Completely Remove Assignments [free] – previously, Cursive data was tied to the assignment module even if the student’s submission was deleted by a teacher for a re-attempt. As requested, we’ve tied Cursive analytics and replay information to the student submission instead, so a removed attempt will remove Cursive analytics and replay now giving the student a fresh submission. 

Minor updates

Paste Count [free]: Even if pastes are allowed, display the number of pastes on the “difference” page (this is similar to how we already treated pastes within the Replay feature). 

Writing Report Improvement [free]: Quizzes with multiple essay type questions now are now titled with their question titles in the Writing report for easy filtering and identification. 

Cite-Source Comments in Replay [free]: Student comments from cite-source (an activity-level setting) are now included and assigned to individual pastes on the Replay page. 

Bugs, stability, optimization – under the hood, we continue to push the envelope for performance and resilience.

Download it at https://moodle.org/plugins/tiny_cursive