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Cursive's for Moodle provides process tracking and authorship verification for writing in forums, quizzes, and online assignments. Works where you want it, fully transparent, and non-invasive.

A few notes on analytics: Authorship: this is our ML model ensuring the same student is the author. An initial sample is required from students for this to work. Effort: this is calculated as "verbosity" (total typing activity) divided by the character count in the final submission. For writing without AI or pastes this is 100% or higher (in some cases, much higher).*

Cursive 2.0 introduces new features to our existing Authorship and Analytics plugin for Moodle Free to install, free features to use locally (no API connection required) Replay revision history (free process tracking) Complete transparency (free student-facing notifications) Assignment-by-assignment deployment (free use it only where you want) Download it at Learn more at

We're off to a hot start with pilots and customers using Cursive: 1,000+ Students Authenticated K12, college, and university sites around the world (Australia, North America, South America, and Asia) are using Cursive to verify student authorship. 5,000+ Assignments Verified From discussion posts to online assignments and essays on quizzes: a variety of writing assignment-types were verified to confirm student outcomes and provide near real-time feedback to evaluators and students without the need for AI detection software.

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: This plugin brings the power of Originality AI to Moodle through the core Moodle Plagiarism API for forums, quizzes, and online text. For bundles with the Cursive plugin for Moodle (one low price) please contact us.

30 minutes with the University of Tulsa's David Rettinger covers our CEO's progression from "integrity-curious" to founding Cursive in order to address a major gap in academic integrity: individual authorship verification. This session covers: contract cheating assessment validity academic integrity authorship typing biometrics essay mill research and much more... Check out David and co-author Dr. Tricia Bertram-Gallant's book, The Opposite of Cheating and get a copy today (a must read for anyone interested in Academic Integrity).

Cursive, from a field of many, was selected as a finalist for the Alumni Track of 10th Annual Pitch Dingman Competition. From the event announcement: Pitch Dingman Competition, the University of Maryland’s signature annual venture competition, showcases the university’s most talented student and alumni entrepreneurs by providing the opportunity to compete for seed funding and exclusive access to venture development resources.

Register Join Joseph Thibault and Anissa Sorokin for a short discussion of their new paper which discusses the history and potential of typing biometrics in learning and writing. The authors will discuss the ramifications, insights, and future research potential of enabling biometric data analysis in non-lab settings. Cursive CEO and Founder, Joseph Thibault, and collaborator, Anissa Sorokin authored "Biometric Key Logging in Authentic Learning Environments: Introducing the 'Cursive' Standard and Collection Tools" which was recently published in the Journal of Writing Analytics (

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“Over the last 15 years, as a scaled higher ed program administrator, I searched for a solution to the intractable problem of tying submitted writing to the enrolled student and I’m excited and proud to work with Open LMS to introduce our solution to its client base,” said Joseph Thibault, Cursive Founder and CEO. “Cursive provides institutions a fundamentally different approach to after-the-fact detection tools to raise the bar for academic integrity.