How does the Academic Integrity Goliath stack up against this David?
| Cursive | Turnitin Clarity1 | |
| 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 each assignment |
| Revision history for student writing | ✅ enhanced autosave and revision history | ✅ revision history |
| Writing Process Playback | ✅ playback the writing process | ✅ playback the writing process |
| Copy-Paste Detection | ✅ solicit comments from students, identify pasted text | ✅ identify pasted text |
| Writing Report | ✅ all integrity insights in one place, within existing workflows | ✅ all integrity insights in one place |
| Streamlined Feedback Interface | ✅ leverages Moodle’s advanced grading features | ✅ leverages aspects of Feedback Studio |
| Optional AI assistant | ✅ leverage Moodle’s AI subsystem to provide frontier model LLM access* | ✅ a “Chain of reasoning” LLM to provide sanctioned guidance |
| Supports discussions, essays, lessons, and quizzes | ✅ works within Moodle, as enabled2 | ❌ a writing environment external to your LMS |
Turnitin offers a compelling product for process tracking similar to the approaches of VisibleAI, Truemark, Mentafy, and others. Similar features are available through Google Docs with tools like Draftback (though all lack Authorship verification to ensure that the enrolled student is the author).
While we’re not rock slingers, Cursive’s native plugin for Moodle stacks up well against the competition. Plus, it’s hard to beat the low-low cost of “free” for any Moodle site seeking to raise the bar for Academic Integrity.
All in all these approaches can help your institution support teachers in the evaluation of writing and assist students in writing skills development.
Check out the latest Cursive Plugin overview:
- Sources: https://go.turnitin.com/WritingwthTiiClarity_StudentsGuide_US_0225 &
https://www.turnitin.com/products/feedback-studio/clarity ↩︎ - Download the Moodle plugin at moodle.org/plugins/tiny_cursive ↩︎
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