Perusall Tutorials & Examples

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.

Tutorial Resources:

For Students:

• Getting Started
• How do I read a “clean copy” of the book, without the highlights?

For Professors:

• Getting Started
• Create assignments that include multiple sections or page ranges
• Assign multiple documents at once
• Use Perusall to teach the same course again
  • Setting Up Perusall Activity Through Nexus (Link to TDX article)
• Review the comments of a single student
• How do groups work?
• A one-page rubric that explains what Perusall is, how it works, and how students are graded

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Using Perusall with Nexus – TDX article

Topics covered:

1. What is Perusall?
2. What the research says….
3. Setting Up Perusall Activity Through Nexus
   • A reminder of step 7 (Make sure the Activity name in Nexus is the exact same as your Assignment name in Perusall. After filling out the required fields, select [Save and Display].
4. Instructional Design Recommendations
   1. Create Two New Categories
   2. Assignment Setup in Nexus
   3. Create Calculation for “Sum of Assignments” Category
   4. Weighting Perusall to 5- 10% of the Grade
5. Related Knowledge Base Articles From Perusall

Overview of Toolbars:

1. Returns you to the last point that you were reading.
2. Zoom in/out or change the fit of the page.
3. Chose what to display on the page, from all comments to no comments.
4. Chose between annotating text or selecting large areas to annotate.
5. Toggle the current conversation view.
6. Show all conversations on this document.
7. Show page thumbnails.
8. Search option.
9. Show notifications.
10. Show your private notes.