Perusall

Overview

Perusall facilitates a deep reading experience in a social environment by grouping students into small learning communities for each reading assignment (i.e., textbook chapter, article). Students can directly annotate on the document by posting comments or questions, which will be graded by Perusall’s AI for quantity, thoroughness, and quality. Instructors can review various engagement analytics (including the most up-voted questions and most popular comments) and interact themselves, including providing critical thinking prompts throughout the text. (Note: Only this Perusall LTI has been approved by Integrated Risk Management, not account creation directly on their website.) 

Installation Instructions 

Go to  course settings, click on the "Navigation" tab, find the tool you want in your course, and then click the 3 dots on the right and choose "enable." Click "Save" at the bottom of the page. 

Update to Perusall 1.3

This tool has recently been updated to LTI version 1.3. To learn about the differences between the previous version and this new version, please see the vendor's resource page here.

For Updating Perusall to 1.3 In Canvas:

Go to course settings, click on the "Navigation" tab, find Perusall, and then click the 3 dots on the right and choose "enable." Click "Save" at the bottom of the page. 

Click the Perusall link in Navigation to open Perusall. You can follow the Get Started tips within Perusall or follow this Getting Started guide to set up Perusall for your course. For this tool, instructors build assignments within Perusall and these are synced back to Canvas.

For Creating New Assignment Links in Perusall 1.3:

A 1.1 course cannot be upgraded to a 1.3 course, however, your 1.1 course content (excluding all student data/work) can be copied to a 1.3 course.  You will need to remove all 1.1 Perusall links from your new course, and replace them with new links following the conversion guide.