Tag: social annotation

Have you heard about Perusall, the social reading platform that allows students to collectively read, annotate, and discuss the readings, but not sure how to implement it in your class? Have no fear!

Perusall is offering free webinars to help get you started or up-leveling the Perusall skills you already have.

Perusall 101

Perusall 101 will cover how to get up and running with Perusall’s product features such as grouping, building out your Library, and setting up assignments. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions. This webinar is designed for those brand new to Perusall or are looking for a refresher on Perusall fundamentals.

Perusall 102

Perusall 102 is the up-level course from the Perusall 101. We will take an in-depth review of some of Perusall’s technical features, including multimodal assignments, Peer Review assignment creation, auto-grading, grouping, and LMS set up. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions.

Need help with or have questions about Perusall? We’ve got you covered! Contact the ITS Information Desk at 540.458.4357 (HELP), email help@wlu.edu, or stop by the ITS Information Desk on the Main Level of Leyburn Library!

Your students can now engage socially around video content in the same way they already can around books, articles, and other documents. Go to Library > Add > Video and select a video from YouTube, Vimeo, Google Drive, Dropbox, or a video file hosted elsewhere to add to your course.
You can now allow colleagues to copy your course (your documents, assignments, instructor-initiated threads, and settings) without having to give them instructor access to your course. Go to Settings > Access to obtain your course’s unique “copy code” that another instructor can use to copy from your course. Instructors with your copy code can copy the content in your course but have no access to student data.
You can now use more flexible search syntax to search books and other documents, like a web search: search for exact phrases by enclosing them in quotation marks, indicate that a word must appear with a plus sign, or indicate that a word must not appear with a minus sign. Visit the search page on Perusall’s support site for more information.
When you use the Canvas integration, Perusall can now mirror your Canvas groups within Perusall, avoiding the need to define groups manually in Perusall. Visit the Canvas setup page on Perusall’s support site for more information.