Perusall

Description:

• Perusall is an online social learning platform for annotating text, video, and audio content – motivating students to ask questions, share insights, and build a learning community.

• It allows students to read, comment, and annotate texts together, fostering a more interactive and meaningful learning experience. 

• By promoting active participation and discussion, Perusall aims to improve student understanding and knowledge retention. 

Teacher Access:

• Note: SMUHSD uses the free version of Perusall. When choosing a platform fee, you’ll have the option of exempting individual students fees. Choose the option, " I'm teaching a high school course" in order to automatically have a fee waiver applied for all your students.

Canvas Course Installation

• In your Canvas course, navigate to Settings > Navigation, locate Perusall  (it may be towards the bottom of the list).

• Click three dots beside Perusall and select Enable, or click and drag it to the list of active navigation options, and Save.

• Refresh your page, and click on Perusall in the left navigation to create your Perusall course.

Creating Canvas Assignments w/ Grade Sync

• 1. Create your assignments in Perusall first.

  2. Navigate to your Canvas Assignments page, click + Add assignment, scroll down to Submission Type, and select External tool.

  3. Click Find, and then click the blue magnifying glass next to Perusall.

  4. In the next screen, select Perusall. A window will pop up that will allow you to select a Perusall assignment to link.

  5. Under Assignments, click on the dropdown to select an assignment.

  6. Ensure that Import grading information to LMS is enabled, and click Link to this assignment. Click Select.

  7. Enable Load This Tool In A New Tab, finalize assignment settings, and click Save & Publish.

  8. Open the assignment, taking you directly into the Perusall assignment.

Student Access:

• Student support

Resources:

• Writing good comments in the humanities

Support:

• https://support.perusall.com/hc/en-us

• District teachers will need  to request support from:  edtech@smuhsd.org

Licensing:

• Licensing information, what sites are available to be licensed

Student Data Privacy Agreement: 

• Completed

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