Perusall is an online social learning platform that helps you connect with you classmates within your course content! Your instructors may have you collaborate and discuss text documents, books, web pages, videos, podcasts and more to foster a better understanding and collaborative learning environment.
Getting Started
What do the icons mean?
Accessibility and Inclusive Learning Options on Perusall
Your instructor will create the assignments through your Canvas Course. To access the assignment
- Click on the assignment within Canvas
- Click on the Load [Assignment] in a new window button
- The reading will open in a new tab within your browser and you will automatically be logged into your corresponding Perusall account with that specific assignment ready to go!
Assignments
- When you open a document, you'll see highlights that represent comments that you and other students have entered.
- Yellow highlights indicate comments or questions by you or other students; blue highlights indicate comments from your instructor.
- To start a conversation, highlight some text; once you finish highlighting, you will see a panel open on the right where you can type your comment.
- Press Enter or Return to submit the comment; your classmates will see it appear in real time.
- When someone responds to your question or comment, you will receive a notification by email
- To add to a conversation, click on the highlight in the text to open up the conversation panel, type your comment, and then press Enter.
- You can also highlight part of a figure rather than text. Using the toolbar at the top, click and drag to draw a box around the figure or drop a map pin.
- While reading the document, change which comments you see by clicking the filter dropdown at the top of the page (which says All comments by default).
- You do not need to submit assignments. Once you press Enter/Return to submit a comment, it's automatically saved and counted towards your score.
How do I create, edit, or delete a comment?
What is upvoting, and how do I upvote comments?
Can I zoom the page or increase the text size?
Can I print from a document or a reading assignment?
Tips for Collaborative Learning and Critical Thinking
Troubleshooting Assignments
Why can't I highlight part of the text?
I can't see my own comments
Why do I not see my classmates' comments?
Grades and Perusall
If your instructor is grading your Perusall assignment, your scores should sync within the Canvas Gradebook. If you see an exclamation point next to your scores within Perusall grading, or your do not see your scores within Canvas, contact your instructor.
How is annotation quality determined?
Why do I see an exclamation point next ot some of my scores in My Scores?
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