Perusall is an annotation tool that integrates with Canvas. Perusall allows students and instructors to discuss, comment on, collaboratively mark up, and post questions on documents and textbooks. Students can take notes and answer each other's questions directly within the text, while instructors can create assignments and groups for students to work collaboratively on a reading assignment. Instructors can access various statistics about each student’s engagement with an assignment using the Analytics feature in Perusall.
Perusall is available in Canvas for faculty to use with their Canvas Assignments.
Accessibility testing for this product was completed on September 22, 2021. Any subsequent updates to the product or associated input devices after this date are not reflected on the current assessment.
Perusall meets most of Teacher College’s accessibility criteria. Perusall has several features that can be leveraged to increase accessibility of reading materials and assignments to students.
For tips and advice on how to best optimize Perusall for their assistive technology, contact TC’s OASID for assistance. To learn more about Perusall Accessibility, check their official Accessibility statement.
Perusall aims to make students collectively read and annotate on the materials they are working on. Make sure that as an instructor, you dedicate time to participating in it with your students by revising and replying to their comments.
Perusall also has an automatic grading system based on four criteria: quality of annotations, quantity of annotation, timeliness and distribution of annotations. This is valuable information for faculty to understand the level of engagement of students.
Check this Quick start guide to understand how to use Perusall’s basic functions.