Perusall: Starting Conversations with Classmates

Updated on May 29, 2024

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When a document is opened, there will be various highlighted sections with corresponding commentary on the right side of the Perusall assignment. This is where the large portion of conversational interactions will be held.

Tips to Navigating Student Conversations

Highlighted annotations

1. When you open up the document assignment, there will be highlighted commentary throughout connected to the annotation.

Yellow highlighted comments are from you or other students, and blue is from the instructor.

Image of a Persuall document assignment. The Perusall page has title of the document “Embracing Digital Technology” highlighted in blue with a red arrow indicating the annotation’s location.

Responding to Comments

1. On the upper right corner, the message bubble icon is selected. This can be done manually through the document or when you selected the all conversations double message bubble icon. Here, you can type your response below the comment and press enter when you are finished.

Use the @ symbol to notify specific students that you have a question or annotation about their response.

Image of a Perusall document assignment. On the top right, in chronological order the message bubble icon is highlighted in red with an arrow indicating that it’s opened. Then on that page, located under a comment is an empty text box that is highlighted to insert your reply.

Annotations for Images (not only text)

1. On the top mid section of the Perusall document assignment, select the image icon. Navigate in the document to where you want to place the location pin. After you pin it, type in your comment that will be shown on the right.

By default, Perusall allows you to annotate the text of a document. If you want to pin a particular part of an image on the document, then the image annotator is available as show below: