Perusall: Creating an Assignment

Updated on Jan 23, 2025

Step-by-Step Instructions

1. Navigate to Perusall's My Courses page to select a course created from D2L that you'd like to add your content in.

Your D2L courses should show on the My Courses page of Perusall. A folder is automatically created when you access Perusall from your course D2L page.

Image of Perusall’s My courses page. A D2L course labeled Sandbox2 has been highlighted in red with an arrow indicating to select it.

2. Once you arrive on the Get Started page, select Assignments.

If you don't have an assignment created, make sure to add content in the library to have assignment options. See Perusall: Adding Documents for more instruction.

Library Upload Options:

Book from Perusall Catalog
Webpage
Documents
Quiz
Materials from another course
Video
Podcast
Folder
Student Upload Folder
iClicker

Image of Perusall’s course home page. The Assignments page tab after the Get Started and Library tab is highlighted in red with an arrow indicating to select it.

3. Select Add assignment using the green +Add assignment button after Students tab or use the Add assignment button below Get Started.

Image of Perusall’s assignment page showing to navigate to either of the two Add Assignment buttons.

4. Select Standard Assignment

Image of Perusall’s assignment page and the Standard Assignment option being selected on the right side of the screen.

7. Go through and complete the additional settings in the Options and Scoring options and then select OK to save.

Image of Perusall’s Add assignment page. In chronological order, Options heading is labeled 1, Scoring heading 2 across the top right, and step 3 is labeled for the OK button in the bottom left corner.

8. The assignment is now shown under the Perusall Assignments.

To link your assignment to D2L, follow the instructions in Perusall: Adding an Assignment to D2L.

Image of Perusall’s assignment page. The assignment example “Perusall Introduction” is highlighted in red under the Assignments tab. This is where the assignment will be for the students.

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