About
Perusall is an online student collaborative platform to make annotation and social engagement inclusive. Navigating the student experience, there are multiple sections to utilize Perusall to its full potential. If you are interested in a quick overview, check out:
Note: There won't always be a video assignment/interaction. Most times an article or textbook may be used for annotation and collaborate purposes.
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When you navigate to the top of the Perusall assignment, from left to right there will be:
Course name, Assignment name, Notifications bell button, What's new button, Get help dropdown, and your Student account.
This is where you can see who else in your course is currently in the assignment and how to choose your view of what kind of comments are shown on the assignment in Perusall.
Note: The controls shown for the video player are also a part of the streaming audio player.
The typical buttons for a video assignment will be located at the bottom. For left to right, you will find:
1. Rewind 10 seconds
2. Rewind
3. Play
4. Fast forward
5. Volume
6. Zoom
7. Settings (Which usually has the speed control of the video)
To the right of the assignment/reading/interaction, there is a list of various collaboration tools. From top to bottom the features are:
1. Assignment Information: The assignment submission deadline, instructions, and navigate through multi-part assignments.
2. Current Conversation: When you click on a highlight or annotation. Displays the comments in this section as current.
3. All Conversations: Browse the full list of students' comments and questions.
4. My Starred Comments: Browse a list of students' comments and questions that you have starred for later review.
5. Table of Contents: Allows you to quickly move through the document.
6. Search: Allows you to search the document for specific words or phrases.
7. Dictionary: Highlight a word in the document to get a definition for the word.
8. Citations: Provides a citation for the source used in the assignment.
9. Bookmark: Add a custom bookmark or navigate through your bookmarks.
10. Notes Panel: Take notes that are private to you (or you can share them with other course members). Type text, or highlight text or pictures to copy in, with links back to the document.
11. Read- aloud panel: you can scroll the text to anywhere in the document, and then click the start button to start reading aloud. Click the start thread button while text is being read to start a conversation based on text you just heard.)
For assignments with text, the Read-aloud panel will show as depicted below:
