Perusall

Perusall is a collaborative annotation platform that encourages group reading and deeper engagement with course materials. It allows you and your students to discuss specific words, sentences, images and passages in a written text or video (link) by highlighting key portions of a document for comment, questions and discussion. Perusall was designed to be used with textbooks, many of which can be purchased by students digitally within Perusall.

Features and functionality

• Can be used with uploaded files (e.g., Word, PDF, epub), videos (links), websites added to the system
• A grading algorithm allows for automated scoring of effort and engagement participation
• A grouping feature allows for control of group size and composition
• Analytics dashboard

“Perusall is without a doubt the most important new teaching technology I have ever used. It really is transformative…I’m blown away by the quality of some of the insights my firsties are providing. Reading their comments has given me a window into their heads that I’ve never previously had. And it’s letting me integrate the readings more deeply into the lecture content than has been possible before”

- Rob de Loë; Professor / Associate Director, Undergraduate; School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability