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Perusall Basics: Setting Up Perusall with Moodle

With recent improvements to how Perusall integrates with Moodle, it’s even easier to get started with the social annotation tool. This brief tutorial covers how to initially set up a course with Perusall, how to get grades from Persuall into the Moodle gradebook, and, if you’d like, how to create links in Moodle to individual Perusall assignments. For more information...

Annotation/Asynchronous

Copying Perusall Content To a New Course

If you’ve added readings and assignments to Perusall for past courses and want to reuse them for new classes, you’re in luck: there’s a straight-forward process to copy materials from one course to another. It can even preserve your assignment links on Moodle, given a little bit of elbow grease. The trickiest part is remembering the right order of operations....

Annotation/Asynchronous/Discussion-based

Using Groups in Perusall

Overview In Perusall, you can organize students into groups that limit whose comments they see. This can be useful when you have a large class and want to reduce the volume of annotations any single student is seeing, or if you want to create smaller cohorts where students might assume certain roles (skeptic, synthesizer, etc.) as readers and responders. You...

Asynchronous/Discussion/Discussion-based/Group Work

Introduction to Perusall – Workshop Recording

The above is a recording of the social annotation tools workshop, which focused on a Perusall, a platform that allows for in-line, threaded commentary on and discussions of texts. Formatted as a VoiceThread, the recording includes two “slides,” which you can toggle between using the arrows on the lower right. (Here is a direct link to the VT recording, if...

Annotation/Asynchronous/Discussion

Tag: Perusall

Perusall Basics: Setting Up Perusall with Moodle

Copying Perusall Content To a New Course

Using Groups in Perusall

Introduction to Perusall – Workshop Recording