Joseph Thibault
Lead maintainer
Cursive
Certified Integration
Maintained by
Joseph Thibault, Brain Station 23
The 1st process tracking tool for Moodle. Authorship verification and written assessment validity: no camera required. Prevent plagiarism and spur originality through transparency. Cursive is for where writing matters.
Description
Authorship > AI Detection: Support Authentic Writing with Cursive
We're focused on the writing process — all the effort before a student clicks submit. By capturing the revision history, we create new insights into student thinking and generate exclusive-to-Cursive writing analytics for Moodle's core writing activities (forum, quiz, assignment, lesson, and more).
We ensure writing skills remain a valid, assessable, essential, and valuable skill. While the plugin provides new functionality without cost, full use is unlocked by connecting to our secure API as a premium/paid partnership. Contact us today for a free trial.
"Reading student work gave me goosebumps again, not because I hadn't seen good student writing, but because with the analytics I trusted student work again"
—Faculty at Catholic International University
"Cursive gave them far greater confidence that students’ writing was genuinely their own.
Its ability to surface the actual writing process directly in the LMS allowed them to verify authorship quickly and with clarity."
—Faculty at Murdoch University
"With the effort score, I didn’t have to dive into the full revision history”
—Faculty at University of Maryland (saving 50% review time)
Free Features Available
🆓Free Features
Compare our free features to Turnitin Clarity or Process Feedback, no API connection required:
📊Local Data Capture
Collect high fidelity, research-grade data from the writing process with comprehensive tracking capabilities right on your Moodle.
💾Autosave & Revision History
We add a student facing autosave feature and ensure no lost student writing even when internet drops.
😍Improved Writing Environment
Move over Google Docs, we've upgraded the text editor with a modern, familiar look to help students focus.
🔗Control Copy+Paste
Block, allow, or help students provide context about pasted text automatically. No secure browser required.
⏮️(Re)cursive Writing Playback
Replay student effort, production, and revisions from the writing process like a movie, including their pasted or AI subsystem text.
👑Premium Features
Premium/paid partnership access to our API unlocks unlimited use of additional features. Cursive analyzes this new data to calculate a growing list of
✅Authorship Verification
Ensure student identity and submission authenticity using our machine learning and AI models and continuous authentication tools to reduce and eliminate impersonation.
🤖Identify bots
Screen for bots and agents in the classroom and activities.
📈Analytics & Effort
Cursive adds new quantitative data to the learning analytics available on your Moodle site helping teachers and students see the proof of effort, writing duration, speed, revisions, and more.
🕵️Difference
Compare the reconstructed writing process to the final submission to highlight pasted and AI injected text from Grammarly, browser extensions, or pastes by the student with easy to understand highlights.
📊Compare
Review all student submissions for an assignment to see trends or outliers.
💰Transparent Pricing
Premium partnership starts at $199/year minimum or $2 per student per year USD.
Questions about free trials, pilots, or discounts based on organizational status or location? Contact us — we're here to help!
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Our Mission: We're on a mission to validate knowledge & learning by providing actionable insights, transparency, and personalized data about writing quality and proficiency in plain language to benefit both students and teachers.
Contributors
Awards
Early bird 4.5
Privacy friendly
Early bird 5.0