The student-centered social learning platform that prepares every student for every class.
Have a question? Email us at support
@perusall
.com.
#SocialLearning
Our
#Keynote
Speakers for
#PerusallExchange
2024 are... Jesse Thaler, Director of the NSF Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions and professor at MIT, and
@stephen_wolfram
, Founder & CEO, Wolfram Research!
Register
#AI
#Teaching
Eric Mazur will be offering another session of the webinar "How to flip your course online when the world is flipping out" on March 27 at 03:15 PM ET. No pre-registration necessary! Join at this URL on the 27th:
One of our newest Perusall features -- polling! Students and instructors can add a poll when annotating an assignment. If you have any questions, ask us here or reach out to us at support
@perusall
.com!
We're thrilled to announce that our podcast, Social Learning Amplified hosted by
@eric_mazur
, is launching this week!
Listen to our first three episodes starting on Tuesday, October 11th!
Find our episodes and more at:
#SocialLearning
#EdTech
#Podcasts
Instructors have shared many creative pedagogical strategies with us so we are creating an event to share best practices for engaging students in online learning: The Perusall Exchange 2021.
New to Perusall or a recent adopter? Please join our webinar, Transform Your Teaching With Perusall, presented by
@eric_mazur
, Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University.
#Webinar
#HigherEdWebinar
#Socialannotation
Join our next webinar, "Transform your teaching with Perusall”.
@eric_mazur
will demonstrate how to move information transfer and sense-making online and make it interactive, promoting social interactions between students. Register here:
#socialannotation
We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Angela Duckworth is a Perusall Exchange 2022 keynote speaker! She is a professor of psychology, a MacArthur Fellow,
#1
New York Times best seller, and the founder of Character Lab, a nonprofit using scientific insights to help children thrive.
We're excited to announce that educator & Perusall co-founder, Dr. Brian Lukoff, will join Dr. Larry Engelhardt for a conversation on "Fostering inclusivity and engagement with Perusall and
@OpenStax
"!
Thursday, October 20th
11:00AM CDT
Register today:
Believe it or not, there is a silver lining resulting from the Covid pandemic. Distance courses have given students exposure to peer-to-peer environments. Read how nursing students at
@mcgillu
improved their skills in peer reviewing.
#highered
#edtech
Join us: Perusall Exchange 2022!
Perusall Exchange, an all-virtual community event, consists of a mix of asynchronous sessions you can attend at your convenience and synchronous keynotes and discussion sessions. This year's theme is Social Learning.
"We're empowering students to learn [and] we're encouraging them to embrace it as something that can be fun!"
@eku
In episode 2,
@mpwinslow
, Travis Martin, and
@eric_mazur
discuss the
#Ungrading
movement.
Listen and subscribe:
#SocialLearning
Perusers! We have some exciting new features for you:
Scoring settings have been revamped in a very colorful way for a more seamless setup. The gradebook can now be sorted to your liking and our LMS fact pages have been updated. Come take a look at these new features in action!
Join us TODAY at 1pm EDT for our
#PerusallExchange
Keynote! Eric Mazur talks with educational innovator and 2001 Nobel laureate Carl Wieman on the value of active and social learning.
A Discussion with Carl Wieman:
Learning to Think Like a Scientist
Our keynote speaker, Angela Duckworth, kicks off the first LIVE session of Perusall Exchange℠ 2022 tomorrow, May 16th!
Join us for A Discussion with Angela Duckworth tomorrow from 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM ET!
Register:
#PerusallExchange
We are thrilled to announce an addition to Perusall Exchange 2022 keynote speaker line-up... Dr. Carl Wieman! Dr. Wieman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics & pioneered the use of experimental techniques to evaluate the effectiveness of various teaching strategies for physics.
The integration of technology in education has not always been welcomed with open arms. As tech continues to change, ed tech software prepare our youth for success in the future and brace them for the further advancements to come.
#edtech
#perusall
"If shopping with Ginsberg is like coloring outside the lines, annotating his poem with Perusall is like reading beside the lines."
Prof. Marsha Bryant shares her insights on integrating Perusall into her English courses at
@UF
:
We are thrilled to announce Ken Bain as a Perusall Exchange keynote speaker! Bain is president of the Best Teachers Institute, a historian, a learning researcher, and the author of the best seller for What the Best College Teachers Do.
Register today!
Our first live event of the summer is tomorrow, June 30th! The Perusall 101 demo covers the features you need to set up a course. Can‘t join tomorrow? Don‘t worry, we’re hosting more events throughout the summer 😎☀️🏖️ Register:
📢 If you ever wanted to get a peek behind the scenes at Perusall - with a side of humor - this podcast episode is for you. Listen to our co-founder and CEO Brian Lukoff talk about Perusall with the hosts of the
@hitechpodcast
!
Yes! 🙌
We're back with another interview!
Following up on
@perusall
with their CEO, Brian Lukoff.
What a great conversation! Tune in to hear about how Perusall came together and where it's going.
Interview:
ICYMI, I blogged about my experiments this spring teaching with
@Perusall
: . I found social annotation really useful for engaging students in asynchronous online contexts.
Looking for magical teaching solutions?! Listen to this podcast episode at
#PerusallExchange
-- 3 more days!
"Dementors Got You Down? Alohomora, Perusall, and Other Magical Solutions for Dispelling Student Disengagement" by T. Adam Baldry & Brad Butler
Perusall Exchange 2022 is almost two weeks away! Join us for short video presentations, podcast, posters and short papers from 50+ universities and institutions!
Register today:
#perusallexchange
Registration and attendance are free!
Polling -- one of our newest features! Students and instructors can add a poll when annotating an assignment. If you have any questions, ask us here or reach out to us at support
@perusall
.com!
Creating a standalone
#Perusall
course? Watch our tutorial video on how to get started!
More how-to videos are available on our YouTube page and at .
More questions? Contact us: support
@perusall
.com
#SocialLearning
#Instructors
What is your grading philosophy? Are you interested in learning how Perusall may be used with an "ungraded approach"? Listen to episode 2 & 3 on the Social Learning Amplified podcast hosted by
@eric_mazur
!
#SocialLearning
#EduPodcast
@eku
@mpwinslow
We've added new tools to make it easier to manage content & assignments in your Perusall courses!
Perform bulk actions:
- Select multiple library items and assignments to take actions on all items at once
#SocialLearning
#NewFeatures
Did you know you can still access the Exchange course if you registered?
Catch up on presentations that you missed or rewatch the ones you loved --- until June 30th!
#PerusallExchange
Is memory still important for learning even in the age of smartphones, search engines, and AI?
Dr. Michelle D. Miller's
#Perusall
Engage Book Event: Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology, begins February 26th!
Join:
#HigherEd
#Learning
Instructors, setting up your Perusall course and assignments? Need some refresher tips?
Join us at Perusall 101 and 102 this week!
Perusall 101:
Tuesday, August 30th
4pm EDT
Perusall 102:
Thursday, September 1st
3pm EDT
Register:
#SocialLearning
News from within the Perusall Exchange℠ :
Engage in over 60 presentations (videos, live sessions, podcasts, short papers, and posters) until Friday, May 27th. Be inspired by other educators from around the world!
#PerusallExchange
Looking for new ways to engage students in an online class? Interested in advancing your course design?
Join Jenae Cohn's
#PerusallEngage
Community Book Event, Design for Learning, starting Monday, January 15th:
#OnlineLearning
@UCBerkeley
@Jenae_Cohn
Thank you to all our adopters who used
#Perusall
to help excite students about their learning and transform the way instructors approached their courses. Our success is your success!
Looking forward to another year of innovative teaching!
#EdTech
#SocialLearning
#Education
We have two more weeks of webinars! 😊
Sign up at: to join us for Perusall 101, Perusall 102, or Perusall Instruct the Instructor!
#SpringForwardwithPerusall
With Perusall,
@KendraS85
cultivated a learning community for her students and helped them connect medieval lit to modern life. Read more on
@TECHStyle_blog
!
In “Perusall: Building Community and Confidence in an Online Classroom through Annotation, Part 1” Brittain Fellow
@KendraS85
outlines how she uses
@perusall
in her medieval literature class to connect students with premodern writing and culture.
"It is our job as instructors to use these features of our operating systems to enable students to learn better & faster." Perusall co-founder
@kinggary
Designing for Student Voice: Social Annotation for Equitable Learning.
@Campus_Tech
#socialannotation
Are you an Instructional Designer or CTL Director? Join us for a sneak peek at Perusall's latest features!
Co-founder and educator Brian Lukoff leads an interactive tour on Thursday, July 14th at 12:00 EDT.
Sign up:
#SocialLearning
How do you use Perusall?
Hassan Wilson at Constellation Learning Institute leads an engaging Perusall Exchange 2022 session on Socializing Thinking Routines with Perusall!
@hassanmwilson
Register today!
#PerusallExchange
is right around the corner! We are thrilled to have Jason R. Tavares from Polytechnique Montréal lead us in an asynchronous presentation "On the Average Perception of Perceived Averages."
@chemengjay
Register to join the conversation!
Our next
#PerusallExchange2023
Live Event is TODAY, Wednesday, June 7th at 12pm EDT!
Social Learning Amplified, Live: Improving Learning and Mental Health in the College Classroom with authors Bonnie Moon & Rob Eaton
@WVUPRESS
@byuidaho
Reserve your spot!
Let's get the new academic year started!
Our Back to School Webinar Series is back to get you ready for the new year! Join us from August 8th through October 7th for Perusall 101, 102, and Train the Trainer.
Register:
#SocialLearning
Social Learning Amplified ep 8 is available now!
@cvhorii
&
@springphoto
chat with
@eric_mazur
about their book, What Teaching Looks Like. Join them as they discuss what photographs of different learning environments can teach us.
#SocialLearning
@perusall
update: multimodal assignments that can use more than one library item (PDF, video, audio) - awesome! A teaching tool that I started using during the pandemic that will definitely stay in my future courses.
#6DegreesChallenge
Tweet your colleagues to find a Perusall educator within six degrees of separation from you. For Perusall educators, tweet a colleague who would be interested in Perusall.
Tweet
@perusall
your string of connections and you'll be entered into a weekly drawing!
The 2023 Perusall Exchange begins June 4th!
Engage with Carisma Nel and Elma Marais from
@theNWU
presentation "Bridging the theory-practice divide for pre-service teachers using Perusall" at the
#PerusallExchange2023
!
Register today!
@CarismaNel
New features for summer courses: create multipart assignments, assign web pages as readings, star useful comments, add hashtags in comments, and more! -
This is a great overview, especially for anyone new to Perusall. Thanks for featuring our
#DigitalAnnotation
platform,
@hitechpodcast
!
PS: Loved the story about the annotation parade at the front of the classroom! 🤓
Get your pencils, highlighters, sticky tabs, and keyboard ready!
... keyboard???
That's right! This week's episode on
@perusall
dives into the world of
#DigitalAnnotation
! Put your physical tools down and flex those typing fingers!
EP 12:
Interested in getting more students to do the reading before class? Listen to our co-founder
@eric_mazur
talk about
#Perusall
and
#PeerInstruction
on the Education Research Reading Room Podcast!
✨New Feature!✨
If you have a document with more than one assignment, you now get to tell Perusall if you want to open up just that assignment OR the whole document.
Questions? support
@perusall
.com
We are just days away from launching the Social Learning Amplified podcast hosted by
@eric_mazur
, which brings candid conversations with educators who are finding new ways to engage and motivate their students inside and outside the classroom.
Stay tuned!
#SocialLearning
Our second live
#PerusallExchange2023
event is TOMORROW, June 6th!
@eric_mazur
will interview authors Flower Darby, Mays Imad, and Isis Artze-Vega about their new book, The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching.
Register:
@wwnorton
@Flowerdarby
We have new tools to make it easier to manage content & assignments in your Perusall courses!
Recover deleted items
- Easily recover deleted library items and assignments by clicking Restore to bring the deleted item back to your course
#SocialLearning
Learning together is more fun & motivating: No reason to be
#homeschooling
alone! Use the free social reading platform with your child and their friends. Set up in 15 minutes & everything’s managed automatically. Based on research at Harvard.
Perusall Exchange℠ 2022 starts May 16th! Join us for video presentations, posters, podcasts, and more!
Ann-Marie Pendrill at Lund University discusses peer instruction with supervised extended group projects in her
#PerusallExchange
poster
@AM_Pendrill
We are thrilled to announce Alan November as a Perusall Exchange keynote speaker! November is a leader in ed tech, co-founder of the Stanford Institute for Educational Leadership Through Technology, & author of 3 best-selling titles! Register today!
Fall has flown by and the final week of the
#FallIntoPerusall
webinar series is here! Don't miss the final Instruct the Instructor and Perusall 102 that will be held this Wednesday at 2PM ET and Friday at 12:00PM ET respectively.
Register at .
Our second live
#PerusallExchange2023
event is TOMORROW, June 6th!
@eric_mazur
will interview authors Flower Darby, Mays Imad, and Isis Artze-Vega about their new book, The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching.
Register:
@wwnorton
@Flowerdarby
Social Learning Amplified episode 11 is out now!
Join
@eric_mazur
, Dr. Lauren Barbeau, and Dr. Claudia Cornejo Happel as they discuss
#Perusall
and their new book, Critical Teaching Behaviors: Defining, Documenting, and Discussing Good Teaching.
Listen:
@UvA_Amsterdam
piloted Perusall with 1 course. They now have 400 courses and over 8,000 users on the platform.
@ErwinvVliet
shares more about this process in his
#PerusallExchange
presentation "How we “Institutionalized” Perusall at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands."
Tomorrow we're co-hosting the online workshop with
@vandycft
, "Transforming Your Teaching with
@perusall
" at 2:30pm EST featuring our co-founder
@eric_mazur
! This is open to non-Vanderbilt folks. To join us register here:
In anticipation of our new feature release, what's your current favorite Perusall feature? Tweet us or take our poll.
#SocialLearning
#SocialAnnotation
Are you an instructor considering Perusall for the upcoming term? Join us at a Perusall Social!
These interactive events are a great way to hear from a current user, experience the student side, see how to set up a course, and more!
Register today!
We have another fantastic Perusall Exchange℠ 2022 Keynote session TOMORROW, May 18th!
Join us for A Discussion with Ken Bain: Building Super Courses to Foster Deep Learning at 2:00pm ET!
#PerusallExchange
New to Perusall or need a refresher? Join us at one of our
#BacktoSchool
webinars! We'll help you get started!
Our webinars continue this week with Perusall 102 TOMORROW, August 24th at 12:00PM EDT!
Register:
#SocialLearning
#EdTech
@CarismaNel
and Elma Marais from
@theNWU
present their exploratory case study and provide an overview of student teachers’ perspectives on the use of Perusall during their
#PerusallExchange
session
We are excited to have Nicole Tavares from
@HKUniversity
as a
#PerusallExchange2023
presenter!
Engineering Formative Feedback Practices and Developing Assessment Literacy in Teacher Education via Instructor Modelling on
#Perusall
Register & learn more: