Literature Review and Summarization Exercise in Moodle with Cursive

Putting Moodle's text editor to the test

For a long time, asking students to write in Moodle was risky due to the instability of servers in the 00s (the one in your IT office closet).

A lot has changed over the last decade though (that closet server is now in the cloud) and Moodle’s become a fine place for student writing to happen¹. This is a product of improvements to:

• Moodle session times (which can be customized)

• Moodle’s customer TinyMCE Autosave feature (which periodically saves student writing to the database; the default TinyMCE Autosave leverages the browser instead, a less secure method).

In a recent conversation with a school, they posed a unique and interesting assignment prompt to us at Cursive so we wanted to put it through the paces to see how Moodle and Cursive could deliver if the assignment instructions and writing environment were specified as Moodle itself.

The full post is over at https://cursivetechnology.com/literature-review-and-summarization-exercise-in-moodle-with-cursive/

Before you might just get an upload, with Cursive you can see the effort and process of summarization.

1. Another LMS’s (not Moodle) product team (who will remain nameless) said “we would never suggest having students write in our text editor”