Perusall is a social annotation tool that integrates with Canvas and facilitates student engagement. Perusall allows students and their instructors to collaboratively markup .pdf documents. Instead of reading a document and discussing it, Perusall brings the discussion to the text. Scoring and grading are done automatically. As a lecturer you can review the scores, and check marginal students scores by hand, saving you a lot of time. At the same time, Perusall helps to make sense of the many annotations by providing a confusion report and overviews of most upvoted comments and questions.

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You can use Perusall to...

Upload reading materials for your course
Let students have online discussions together about the study material
Allow students to ask questions about the study material
Have graded discussions for which the grades can be synchronised with Canvas

How to

Find a manual via the links below:

How to use Perusall?
In this manual, you find an extensive overview of how to use Perusall.
Need more support?
If you need more support, you can go to the Perusall support page or contact ICTO.

Tutorials

Using the Perusall app

TLC-EB Inspiring Sessions: Karin Venetis – Using the Perusall app to let students prepare the reading materials together digitally before class.

Perusall tutorial

For an animated introduction on Perusall, see this tutorial.

Perusall use and privacy

For an animated guide on how to use Perusall and privacy, see this tutorial.

Support

Do you need help with setting up Perusall for your course? Or do you have other further questions? Please do not hesitate to reach out to ICTO!