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Perusall

Perusall

 

Perusall is a tool that aims to change how students view the reading of material from a solitary experience to one that is engaging and collaborative with classmates and instructors. Published textbooks, open educational resources (OER), and personal instructional materials can be assigned to students with just a few clicks of a button. Perusall automatically grades students' engagement with the assigned materials and once prompted, will upload grades to Canvas.  

Canvas Integration

  1. Create an assignment in Canvas
  2. Name the assignment and set the point value
  3. Under Submission Type, select External Tool
  4. Search for Perusall
  5. Save the Assignment and Select Load Assignment in a New Window
  6. Set up an account and course settings in Perusall once it loads
Watch Creating a Perusall course in Canvas (1:33) for a video tutorial.
Click on Library on your Perusall course home page
  1. To add a book from Perusall's catalog, click Add > Textbook
  2. To upload a reading (PDF or EPUB format) from your computer, click Add > Documents from my computer or Add > Documents from Dropbox
  3. To add a web page as a reading, click Add > Web page
Watch Adding Content to Perusall Library (1:46) for a video tutorial.
  1. Click on Assignments on your course home page from Perusall
  2. Click Add assignment and select the course material you want to assign
  3. Select the part of the document to assign, specify a deadline, and click Save changes
Watch Creating a Perusall Assignment in Canvas (1:35) for a video tutorial.
  1. Click on Assignments on your course home page from Perusall.
  2. Click Add assignment and select the course material you want to assign.
  3. Select it in the Assignments panel on your course home page in Perusall, and then click the Copy full title for LMS button in the toolbar
  4. Navigate back to Canvas and add that title into your Canvas Assignment.
Note: To ensure that grade sync works throughout the semester, make sure that students access each Perusall assignment by clicking through the corresponding assignment in Canvas. If a student accesses an assignment in Perusall without ever clicking through the corresponding Canvas assignment, then Perusall will not be able to send that student's score back to Canvas.
 
Watch Creating a Perusall Assignment in Canvas (1:35) for a video tutorial.
View the How Scoring Works in Perusall guide for more information.
 
Each assignment is graded automatically as students are working. Scores for each assignment will show up in your gradebook, but will not appear to students until you have released the scores.
 
 You can release scores in three ways:
  1. Manually, from the gradebook, after you have reviewed the scores for that assignment.
  2. Automatically, after the assignment deadline has passed, so you do not need to manually release scores after each assignment.
  3. Automatically, as students are working. We generally recommend against this option, as it may lead to students attempting to “game” the system rather than participate fully in the discussion

For more info on this tool, please visit the Perusall support page.