Perusall: Course Setup

1. On the Welcome page, select if you would like to start with an empty course or copy an existing course (from one of your courses or another instructor using a copy code).

In this tutorial, we will start with an empty course. For more information on copying a course, see Perusall: Cloning Perusall for a New CRN

Image showing the welcome landing page in Perusall with welcome message. Below message, select the first option Start with an empty course or select Copy existing course found after that. Select Continue in bottom right.

2. Next, you will be prompted to Select content from the Perusall library. Please do not use this option as it will charge students a fee. Just select Continue or Skip this step.

Image showing the select content option in the course set up.

4. Next, tell Perusall about your course by selecting the department, course start date, and course end date. Items marked by an asterisk are required for setup.

Image showing the “Tell Perusall about your course” section on the right side of the welcome screen and indicating to complete the sections labeled department, start date, and end date.

5. Next, you will indicate how you would like to set up Analytics and grading for the course. Descriptions of the different options are included below each option.

Image showing the Scoring and analytics dropdown options available to enable for your Perusall course. It is found below the end date in the “Basic settings” section. See descriptions below the image.

Descriptions of Analytics Options (select dropdown to view)

Automatic grading and engagement analytics: Perusall will provide data about student engagement for your review and assignments will be graded automatically. You can always override automatically-assigned grades and decide when they are displayed to students.
Manual grading and engagement analytics: Perusall will provide data about student engagement for your review. Assignments will not be graded automatically, but you can review student engagement data and manually assign scores to students' assignment submissions.
Disable grading, but provide engagement analytics: Perusall will provide data about student engagement for your review. All assignments will be ungraded and the gradebook will be disabled.
Disable all analytics: Perusall will not provide data about student engagement. All assignments will be ungraded and the gradebook will be disabled.

6. Now, you will select your preferred Grade sync to LMS option.

Grade sync options in order:

Do not sync grades back to the LMS
Manually sync individual assignment scores back to the LMS
Automatically sync individual assignment scores back to the LMS
Automatically sync students' average scores back to the LMS.

Image showing the Grade sync to LMS dropdown menu options.

We recommend automatically synchronizing the gradebook with D2L except in specific use case scenarios. Choose to either send individual assignment scores or each student's average score across all Perusall assignments.

7. Next, select your preferred LMS gradebook column management option.

Options in order:

Instructor creates deep links in LMS; no Perusall gradebook columns will appear in LMS until deep links have been created.
Perusall creates gradebook columns in LMS for each Perusall assignment automatically (we recommend choosing this option except in specific use case scenarios).

Image showing LMS gradebook column management dropdown menu options.

8. Finally, you will fill out the enrollment estimate and target group size for small groups. These selections are required, but an estimate can be made and changed later if needed. Once completed, select Continue at the bottom.

Image showing enrollment estimate and target group size dropdown menus after LMS gradebook column management in the Basic settings tab. Shows to select Continue in bottom right of the screen.

Congrats! You have set up your course! Please reach out to the ALT Team for questions or a consultation on using Perusall in your course.

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