Perusall: Annotating Text, Images, or Unselectable Text

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Annotating features are similar for every assignment following this general layout. This particular version shows how to open the assignment and create an annotation based on an instructor's perspective. This process applies to students as well, with the exception of a different method of opening the assignment.

Annotating Methods in Perusall

1. On the Assignments page of Perusall, select Open.

Image of Perusall’s Assignments page. “Open” is highlighted red on the right side of the selected example assignment with an arrow indicating to select it.

2. The assignment will show up. Select Add comment on the top of the page.

Image of Perusall’s opened example assignment. On the upper middle of the page Add comment is highlighted in red with an arrow indicating to select it.

3. On the right side of the assignment, you can type your comment, question, or general response.

Image of Perusall’s opened example assignment. On the right side of the page the comment box is opened. “Enter your comment or question and press Enter” section is highlighted in red with an arrow indicating to add your response.

4. Once you are done, select Submit.

Image of Perusall’s response box. After you enter text into the annotation comment area, Submit is highlighted in red with an arrow indicating to select it.

5. The annotated response will be shown now on the conversations for that specific assignment.

There is a current and all conversation choice. For the student's convenience, there are also notifications, bookmarks, notes and starred comments.

Image of Perusall’s comment area. The example message “Hello. This is how you annotate.” is highlighted in red indicating that you successfully used the annotate feature.

Annotating an image gives the user the ability to highlight or pinpoint sections of an image to identify what they want to discuss in the conversation tabs.

1. On the top right of an Perusall Document, select the image annotation icon.

Image of a Perusall document assignment. On the top right, the “image annotation” icon is highlighted in red with an arrow indicating to select it. Located to the left of the download and options icons.

2. In the document, navigate to an image that you want to annotate. Highlight the portions on the image that you want to show. On the right, a current conversation will appear to insert an annotation.

Image of a Perusall document assignment. On the left, a portion of an image on the document is highlighted in red with an arrow indicating the location of the annotation. The right has an open current conversation highlighted in red with an arrow indicating to insert your annotation into the empty text box.

If there is text in your Perusall document that isn't registering as selectable text, you can use the image annotation figure to make your annotation.

2. In the document, navigate to the desired text that you want to add commentary. Select the image annotation tool to highlight that portion of text. On the right, a current conversation will appear to insert an annotation.

Image showing a Perusall document with text selected with the image annotation tool. Shows a comment added to this selection.

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