Share & Annotate Documents
Perusall allows you to upload and annotate different types of documents—or parts of them—including:
- PDFs, Word documents from computer, Dropbox, or Google Drive.
- Images
- Videos
- Podcasts
- Digital textbooks
Give Multimodal Assignments
Instructors can assign multiple PDFs, EPUBs, Word documents, images, videos, podcasts, or a combination of these together as one assignment. This assignment will generate a single column in the gradebook.
Create Student Upload Folders
Instructors have the ability to create a student upload folder that will enable students to upload materials to their course. Students can view each others’ uploads and the instructor can even then assign them to the class as a peer review exercise.
Sync Grades to Canvas
Instructors can sync grades to Canvas gradebook, automatically or manually, as individual columns or as one column of the average score of assignments.
Chat One-on-one or as a Group
In addition to conversations within course content, course members can start group or one-on-one chats to have discussions that are not connected to a piece of content.
Assess Student Progress
Tools and information to gauge student progress and understanding.
- Overall assignment progress, to view information about student progress on a particular assignment such as the average reading time, the number of comments, number of questions and the number of unanswered questions.
- Analytics to view grade distribution information and the annotation submission time heat map.
- Confusion Report to see where students have the most questions about the reading.
- All Comments to see all students or individual student work and to download .csv or Word document reports of all annotations.
Annotate & Interact
Perusall's easy-to-use interface enables students to annotate text digitally and interact with the annotations of others.
- View annotations by instructor only, by a specific group, by a specific student, or by all students.
- View unanswered questions and show comment scores.
Automated Grading
Perusall's automated grading algorithm automatically assesses annotations and activities.
Perusall’s engagement score allows you to combine multiple metrics of student engagement into a single score. Up to six different components can be combined into a single score to encourage behaviors that research shows predict positive learning outcomes. Components include:
- Annotation content
- Number of times opened
- Time spent reading
- Active reading actions
- Getting responses from others
- Upvoting others’ annotations or comments