Perusall allows the following media types to be made available to students for social interactions:
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Create a special link to Persuall Called an "External Learning Tool," within one of your Content modules. This will create a link to the Perusall Dashboard, that is then customized for you and your students.
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.) |
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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.) |
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Enter Perusall Dashboard for the name, and paste in the following URL for the LTI URL: https://app.perusall.com/lti/launch Then click Create and Insert. |
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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. Reload the page by clicking either the module title on the left, or the Content label on the Navbar. Now, the "Perusall Dashboard" name for the content item should again be a clickable link. |
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Click on the new Perusall link. Perusall will launch and a course will be created that is connected to your D2L course. Perusall starts you at a dashboard where you can learn about working with assignments and their links in D2L, as well as configuring your course within Perusall. You can also use links along the left, or the top, to go directly to Perusall tools. |
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If you would prefer that students only access assignments directly from your D2L course space, and do not navigate through the dashboard, you can hide the dashboard link in D2L so only you can see it. This is required if you intend to connect Perusall assignments directly to your D2L course gradebook. |
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Create an Assignment
At the dashboard, you can customize your course operation in a variety of ways, but the simplest thing is creating an assignment.To create an assignment in Perusall, you need to add some content that's the basis for student discussion. This can be, for example, a PDF file or a video.
PDF-based Assignment
| Add a PDF to your Perusall class library. Click Library toward the top of the Perusall Dashboard. Then choose the Add content option to the right. |
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| In this example, we've uploaded two PDF files from a local hard drive. They are uploading, and present a progress bar as they do. Large PDF files may take time to upload. |
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| Next click Assignments on the upper bar. Click Add Assignment to start the process. |
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Perusall will walk you through steps to create an assignment. When first you click in the text bar for Content to assign, Perusall will list the options now in your course library. Click the appropriate option. Then choose whether you want to assign the entire file, or just several pages. |
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Scoring
You can read about Perusall's automated scoring engine here. https://perusall.com/downloads/scoring-details.pdf
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