Perusall allows the following media types to be made available to students for social interactions:  

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You can create your account independent of D2L.  If so, consider bookmarking this link in your browser.  Or, you can create an account and install the link in D2L in the process of setting up your course:.  When your students click the link to a Perusall-based reading assignment for the first time, it will create their account.  

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Setting Up Your Course

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1. Select Add Existing Activities > External Learning Tools > Create New LTI Link.  (LTI stands for "Learning Tools Interoperability," and is just a common protocol with which many educational technologies communicate.)
2. Enter Perusall for the name, and paste in the following URL for the LTI URL: https://app.perusall.com/lti/launch
3. Click Create and Insert.
4. Select Edit properties in place in the dropdown next to the newly-created link, and check Open as external resource.  This means Perusall will open in a second browser tab, which is always better for you and your students.
5. Reload the page.
6. Click on the new Perusall link. Perusall will launch and a course will be created that is connected to your D2L course.

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