A Solution to the Challenge Instructors Face

As a collaborative, online, social annotation and formative data platform, Perusall enables students to annotate texts together and generates engagement/analytics data for instructors.

Meet Perusall

Perusall is an online social-annotation platform for textbooks, articles, and other course texts.

In the Classroom

In an undergraduate course, you can assign a textbook chapter in Perusall. Students then collaboratively annotate key passages, pose questions and reply to peers before class.

Why It’s Useful

Social annotation increases reading engagement, supports peer learning and produces formative data on difficult sections.

What to Watch Out For

Perusall requires student accounts and orientation to quality annotation norms; design of prompts affects value.

Give It a Try

• Link: https://www.perusall.com/
• Quick experiment: Upload an article and ask students to post three highlighted questions before your next lesson.