For Professors: How to Use Perusall

1 Setting Up Perusall through Course Site
2 Adding a Resource in Perusall
3 Creating Reading Assignments in Perusall
4 Adding a Perusall assignment to Course Site
5 Additional Tips
6 15 Dollar Charge to Students?
7 New Features
8 Additional Resources

Setting Up Perusall through Course Site

Perusall should always be set up directly through Course Site to avoid any potential student account problems. Add Perusall by choosing "Perusall" as a new activity in your course.

On the settings page, click the Select Content button. Select the Link to Home Page button.
Important! - Under the Grade option, be sure to select None for grade type. This will ensure that an active grade item is not created for this link. (Although you will see a new entry for “Perusall” in the gradebook, it will not count towards any grade average and can be hidden in the gradebook if you wish.)
Click Save.

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Bacxk on your course page, click the link you created in order for the course to be provisioned in Perusall. You should always use this link when accessing Perusall. Students should use this link to automatically create their Perusall accounts in the course.

Adding a Resource in Perusall

When you first create your Perusall course, Perusall will take you through a number of steps to setup the class the first time. You may edit any settigs as you see fit, although the default setup usually works best for most teachers.

IMPORTANT! - Be aware of the “Cost to students” selection during setup! There is NO associated fee to students necessary at this time, HOWEVER, Perusall by default will set a cost - be sure to change this setting to $0. Otherwise, students will be prompted to pay a fee until the setting is changed.

In your Perusall dashboard, click the Library tab.
Click the Add button and select the type of resource you want to add.
If you are using a digital textbook, you can browse, search, or request a textbook by title.
* Once the textbook has been added to the course (you will receive a notification when this has been done), you can begin assigning chapters.
You also have the option of adding assignable text from local files, Dropbox, video sources, or from another Perusall course.

Creating Reading Assignments in Perusall

Select the desired resource in your Library tab.
Click the Assign button for that resource and you’ll be able to set up the assignment as well as the due dates and advanced options for the assignment.

Adding a Perusall assignment to Course Site

Go to your course in Course Site
Turn on Edit Mode in the top right.
Under your desired section/topic, click Add an activity or resource.
Select "Perusall" from the list
On the settings page, click the Select Content button. Under Assignments, select the assignment you want to link directly to under the dropdown box.
Click the Link to this Assignment button.
Click Save and return to course.

Additional Tips

Persuall links will need to be re-created for each of your courses initially and cannot be imported from a previous version of your course.
If you would like to give access to additional instructors, you can do so via Settings > Instructor Access in Perusall.
Students should be directed to ONLY access Perusall via Course Site - accounts are auto provisioned for that course (using their Lehigh email address) the first time they click the Perusall link within a course.
Students will be prompted to purchase the textbook (if you have provisioned one) through Perusall when they first access a reading assignment in the platform.
Perusall will automatically grade your students annotations and post scores when all due dates have past.
Here is how scoring works: https://support.perusall.com/hc/en-us/sections/360005183594-Scoring-and-grades
If using PDF's a source file, they should be OCR ready in order to take advantage of the full functionality of Perusall.