Perusall: Disabling Commenting in a Document

Updated on Apr 12, 2024

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Although Persuall is structured to facilitate annotations and discussions, there are times when disabling comments in a document is necessary based on learning and teaching needs. This article will demonstrate how to disable a document from receiving comments for this purpose.

Step-by-Step Instructions

1. Navigate and open the Persuall course for comment disablement.

Note: This step might not be necessary if the Perusall Dashboard Course page is opened directly.

Image of the main Perusall page with the “My courses” option. The second example course on the middle of the page is highlighted in red with an arrow indicating that it’s selected.

3. Navigate to the Library content item of your preference and select Edit.

This example is for a text document library content item. Other library items such as videos and podcasts can use this feature to prevent comments.

mage of the Library Content Page. On the bottom left, a library document item example “Fundamentals of Cognition” is highlighted in red with an arrow labeled 1 indicating to select first. On the right side of the page, the document is opened and Edit is highlighted in red with an arrow labeled 2 indicating to select it.

4. Use the scroll bar to navigate down to the option "Prevent commenting on this document" and select it. When finished, select OK.

Image of the Library item settings page. After using the scroll bar to navigate down, on the bottom there is an option “Prevent commenting on this document” highlighted in red with an arrow labeled 1 indicating to select first. Once the option is checked, on the bottom right OK is highlighted in red with an arrow labeled 2 indicating to select to apply the feature.

5. The Library Content document item now has comments disabled. As indicated by the "Discussion has been disabled for this content" notification.

Image of the library document item with a notification on it highlighted in red stating “Discussion has been disabled for this content”.

Congratulations! You have successfully disabled comments in a document.

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