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
• Reading a “Clean Copy” of the PDF without annotations

For Professors:

• Getting Started
• Example Rubric to edit and distribute to students
• How do Groups work?
• Assigning Multiple Documents
• Reviewing Student Work

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.