Perusall: Using Notes

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Perusall allows you to make notes that are exclusively defaulted to the student. Notes can be shared to collaborate with others, as well as other features listed below:

2 Methods of Creating and Managing Notes
Editing Notes in a Document
Sharing Notes
Downloading Notes as a Microsoft Word Document

These features are demonstrated in each of the following sections.

2 Methods of Creating and Managing Notes

1. On the course left panel, select Notes. Then select the + New button to open a new note on the right side of the page.

Image of Perusall Notes opened on the Perusall course. On the left side panel Notes is highlighted red with an arrow labeled 1 indicating to select first. In the middle left of the page, +New is highlighted red with an arrow labeled 2 indicating to select to open a new note.

2. Within an assignment, select the Notes icon on the right panel. Then select + New to create a new note.

Notes that are already created can be found in the Open drop down menu that is next to +New.

Image of a Perusall document opened. On the right side lower panel, Notes is highlighted red with an arrow labeled 1 indicating to select first. A note panel has opened, and in the top left of this panel +New is highlighted red with an arrow labeled 2 indicating to select to open a new note.

Editing Notes in a Document

1. While editing notes, you can select Text snippets to save them into your notes. This is done by highlighting the text with the notes panel open.

Image of a Perusall document with a notes panel opened to the right. A text snippet in the document is highlighted red with an arrow pointing from it to the copied text snippet that is highlighted red in the notes panel. Indicating the text has been transferred to the notes panel.

2. Figures can be highlighted too with the figure tool to save the snippet into your notes.

With the snippets, you can add in personal text to add context.

Image of a Perusall document with a notes panel opened to the right. A figure snippet in the document is highlighted red with an arrow pointing from it to the copied figure snippet that is highlighted red in the notes panel. This is indicating that the snippet has been transferred to the notes panel.

3. A note can be opened and edited across multiple documents as well.

Image of a different Perusall document with a notes panel opened on the right. The notes panel has the Open dropdown menu opened with the “My notes example 1” highlighted in red indicating the note is accessible in another document.

Downloading Notes as a Microsoft Word Doc

1. In the notes panel opened on the document, select the Download as Word document icon. This will download a .docx file to your device.

Image of a Perusall document with a notes panel opened on the right. On the top of the notes panel, Download as Word Document is highlighted red with an arrow indicating to select. In the web browser's downloads, the download on the top right of the page is shown and highlighted red.

2. When the .docx file is opened, it will display your notes.

For copyright/ publisher reasons, snippets are restricted in the downloaded notes. Only the words written directly from you will be shown.

Image of the notes example downloaded previously opened on Microsoft Word. The document text is highlighted red indicating it was successfully downloaded. Personal text is only shown, snippets reference a page of the document.

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2 Methods of Creating and Managing Notes

Editing Notes in a Document

Downloading Notes as a Microsoft Word Doc

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Perusall: Using Notes

About

2 Methods of Creating and Managing Notes

Editing Notes in a Document

Sharing Notes

Downloading Notes as a Microsoft Word Doc

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