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  • 3 Key Features that Set Cursive Apart

    Cursive Launch Webinar: You’re invited. 10/18 @ 3pm EST Academic integrity tools for plagiarism detection offer various features to teachers and students using their products.  I’ve tried, demoed, and used dozens of plagiarism detection tools over the last 15 years, administering a large-scale online English Composition course. From this review, I think that the main… Read more

  • An Ode to the Keyboard

    Rethinking Authorship in the AI-era The Keyboard Cursive Launch Webinar: You’re invited. 10/18 @ 3pm EST The qwerty keyboard has been around since 1866, invented to uniformly and efficiently share information and data; it became the device of choice for interacting with computers once punch cards went out of vogue in the 1960s. Its connection… Read more

  • Writing in Cursive

    Writing in Cursive

    The most important thing about Cursive is that you, as a writer, know whether it’s working for your account. Our extension provides you near real time transparency for your session data. We want students and writers to know that the authorship verification is working correctly for every typing style (if you are having trouble getting… Read more

  • Word Document Anonymity: Features (or Lack thereof) for Academic Integrity

    This post was a collaboration by Joseph Thibault, Founder of Cursive Technology, Rahul Marri, Cybersecurity professional, and ChatGPT (July 20, 2023 version) for some readability enhancements. Introduction Imagine this classroom scenario: a student has submitted a Word document to the online classroom submission area. The tone is professional, the content exemplary, the grammar and mechanics… Read more

  • Rethinking Cheating in the Age of AI – AI for Education Webinar

    Rethinking Cheating in the Age of AI – AI for Education Webinar

    July 12th we participated in the AI for Education Summer Launchpad Series for Educators webinar focused on cheating and academic integrity questions. It was a great discussion with a wonderful audience. You can check out additional webinars in the awesome series here: https://www.aiforeducation.io/ai-launchpad-webinars Read more

  • Google Ads and Essay Mills

    Last year I created a database of English language essay mill sites as a method to learn about the industry and to create a readily available list for institutions to utilized in the case they wanted to ‘blacklist’ the URLs from their campus networks (this is often listed as good practice for combating essay mills).… Read more