Perusall is a social annotation tool where instructors can upload or link to a wide variety of course materials – documents including PowerPoint, Word, and PDF; videos from YouTube/Vimeo; web pages; and podcasts – for students to annotate. Students help each other learn by collectively commenting on readings and videos, responding to each other, and participating in a social learning environment.
About This Service
Key Features
- Highlight and comment: Select any passage in a reading and attach a comment or question that classmates can see.
- Reply, tag, and upvote: Respond to classmates’ annotations in threads, tag people in a comment, and upvote contributions you find helpful.
- Upload course materials: Add PDFs, Word documents, ePub files, web pages, or videos to your Perusall library and turn them into reading assignments.
- Take private notes: Write notes on a reading that only you can see, separate from the shared class discussion.
- View student analytics: Check reports on each student’s reading time and annotation activity, and review or adjust the automatically generated scores.
Getting and Using This Service
How do I access this service?
- Log into this Service: This tool can only be accessed from within canvas.pitt.edu.
Who can use this service?
Faculty
Support
How do I get help?
Submit a ticket by clicking the Request Help button on the upper right hand corner of this page.
Help and information is also available through the University Center for Teaching and Learning: