Cursive

TinyMCE ::: tiny_cursive
Maintained by Joseph Thibault, Brain Station 23 LogoBrain Station 23
Cursive verifies student writing submissions and authorship through typing biometrics. We're focused on a student's thinking through the act of writing to ensure writing skills remain an assessable, essential, and valuable outcome and skill. While the plugin provides new functionality without cost, full use is unlocked by connecting to our secure API as a premium/paid partnership.
Latest release:
55 sites
43 downloads
5 fans
Current versions available: 4

We're focused on the writing process (all the effort before a student clicks submit). By capturing key event data we can create new insights to student writing and add revision history to Moodle.

There are customizable features of Cursive, including several available for free without connecting to our API integration:

  • local JSON data capture: collect high fidelity, research grade-data from the writing process,
  • cite-source: help students provide context about the text they paste to Moodle automatically (their comments, links, and explanations are automatically appended to submissions and visible to teachers)
  • Playback: An auto-revision history of the writing process by students (accessible to students and teachers). Playback is available directly within the existing grading workflow. 

Premium/paid partnership access to our API unlocks unlimited use of additional features. Cursive analyzes this new data to calculate a growing list of analytics and information based on the writing process, including the duration, editing efforts, difference between student input and submissions, and verification of student authorship from session to session*. 

Premium/paid partnership starts at a minimum $199/year or $2/per student per year USD. If you have questions about free trials, pilots, or discounts based on organizational status or location, please don't hesitate to contact us

* We are also focused on providing actionable insights about writing quality and proficiency in plain language to benefit both students and teachers. 

Potential privacy issues

Our plugin leverages a natural behavioral biometric (typing) to verify student authorship. All users have a right to be notified of this fact in advance. For an example of an end-user license agreement and a user tour that provides proactive notification, please visit demo.cursivetechnology.com. GDPR Statement This plugin enables the collection of biometric typing data locally on a Moodle site. An integration to Cursive's API server allows Cursive to act as a data processor for the purpose of analyzing and reporting back information related to the collected typing data. This includes algorithmically generated values, summary analytics, data features, text reconstructions and comparisons, and other insights. JSON data formats, by default, do not include name, email, or IP address. Our system is designed as a GDPR-compliant data processor. If your institution requires data processing within a specific AWS region, please contact us.

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Contributors

Joseph Thibault (Lead maintainer)
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  • Plugins bot
    السبت، 29 يونيو 2024، 4:40 AM
    Approval issue created: CONTRIB-9612
  • Josep Mulet
    الثلاثاء، 10 ديسمبر 2024، 5:42 PM
    This plugin is quite interesting. Is there a way to enforce the use of the Tiny editor for students and prevent them from switching it in their profile settings? Additionally, I noticed that I cannot view the details of pasted references in assignment submissions. Is this functionality available, or is it a premium feature?
  • Joseph Thibault
    الأربعاء، 11 ديسمبر 2024، 4:48 AM
    @josep great questions. 1. let me check with my team. For accessibility reasons we didn't want to force editor selection but I can understand the value of that. 2. we didn't seek clipboard access so the copy+pasted information is visible only through a comparison of the process logs vs submitted text (the third image shows how this is displayed). Hope that helps, if you want an API to test things our or want to see it in action let me know
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