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Improvements to our Privacy Policy
March 30 2023At Perusall, privacy and security have always been core values that inform all of our work. We take great care with the personal data that you entrust us with. Part of this care is technological:...
Read moreNew Perusall Features March 2023
March 27 2023The Perusall platform has released a batch of new features this month. Below, we will provide you with all the resources that you will need to implement them into your course successfully.
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Read moreA Look at the Future of Learning | Social Learning Amplified
March 16 2023In episode 9 of Social Learning Amplified, Eric Mazur chats with Julie Jungalwala. Jungalwala is the founder and executive director of the Institute for the Future of Learning, a nonprofit...
Students First: Pima Community College and the Case for Perusall
March 03 2023As the Academic Learning Technologies (ALT) team at Pima Community College, one of our main goals is to identify and implement technology tools that can increase community and student engagement...
Read moreA Look at Learning Environments | Social Learning Amplified
February 16 2023
In episode 8 of Social Learning Amplified, Eric Mazur invites Cassandra Volpe Horii and Martin Springborg to talk about their newest book, What Teaching Looks Like: Higher Education through...
A Look at How Perusall is Beyond a Discussion Board | Social Learning Amplified
January 22 2023
Episode 7 of the Social Learning Amplified podcast brings you a conversation on how Perusall is more than a discussion board. Eric Mazur sits down with Dr. Staci Saner and Dr. Laura Weingartner...
11 Ways to Excite your Students and Transform your Teaching
December 30 20222022 was a defining year for Perusall. As a bootstrapped learning technology company, we depend on word-of-mouth promotion from one instructor to another. The success of our platform is not driven by...
Read moreA Look at Active Learning | Social Learning Amplified
December 04 2022In episode 6 of Social Learning Amplified, Eric Mazur invites Professor Cathy N. Davidson and Christina Katopodis, PhD from The City University of New York (CUNY) to talk about their new book, The...
Perusall's Newest Features
November 17 2022The Perusall team is always listening to feedback from our instructors and working to improve our platform. Each new feature that our developers release is done to make Perusall easier to navigate...
Read moreA Look at Perusall for the Community College Population | Social Learning Amplified
November 11 2022In episode 5 of Social Learning Amplified, Eric Mazur talks with T. Adam Baldry and Brad Butler from Pima Community College about the innovative teaching tools they use at a community college...
Perusall: Transforming the Way Students Read for Class
October 31 2022Being an education professor means constant self-interrogation. If I’m supposed to be teaching teachers, I have to practice good teaching, right? But it’s also true that education professors,...
Read moreA Look at Perusall & Mastery Learning | Social Learning Amplified
October 28 2022In this episode of Social Learning Amplified, Eric Mazur catches up with Jon Bergmann, one of the pioneers of the flipped classroom movement. Jon uses Perusall in his classes to facilitate student...
A Look at Ungrading, Part 2 | Social Learning Amplified
October 08 2022In part 2 of A Look at Ungrading on the Social Learning Amplified podcast, Matthew Winslow and Travis Martin continue the conversation with Eric to explore how Perusall aids in their ungraded...
A Look at Ungrading, Part 1 | Social Learning Amplified
October 07 2022This episode of Social Learning Amplified focuses on the growing "ungraded" movement in higher education. Dr. Matthew Winslow and Dr. Travis Martin, both from Eastern Kentucky University, speak...
A Look at Peer Instruction | Social Learning Amplified
October 06 2022
Our debut episode brings you a conversation on Peer Instruction with Eric Mazur and Julie Schell, Assistant Vice Provost of Academic Technology at the University of Texas at Austin. Schell...
The Benefits of Using Perusall in a First-Year Seminar Course
September 08 2022Do you run a large department or another academic program? Are you looking to achieve greater consistency in the content taught across your course sections? What if you could do this while...
Read morePerusall: A Student's Perspective
August 15 2022Using Perusall was an enlightening experience and a multifaceted new way of learning. It was my first time using the program, and I was enrolled in a hybrid course called Special Populations that...
Read moreGrading Just Got Easier: Perusall's Summer 2022 Updates
July 15 2022It’s that time of year again! The fall semester will be upon us before we know it, and while you’re hopefully enjoying summer, you’re probably starting to prepare for the new semester. For Perusall...
Read moreThe 2022 Perusall Exchange℠ is a wrap!
June 16 2022The 2022 Perusall Exchange℠ is a wrap! Educators created this community online synchronous and asynchronous event for educators. It is truly a community event with over 50 presentations on Social...
Read moreAisles Full of Annotations! Ginsberg’s Supermarket in Perusall
June 14 2022Strolling through A Supermarket in California like a flâneur, Allen Ginsberg presents himself as a counterculture shopper in 1950s America. He sees the extraordinary in the new ordinary–garishly lit ...
Read morePerusall Scoring Options: Annotation Only
December 13 2021When I first started using Perusall, “annotation content” was the only grading option available, which made it fairly easy to establish grading criteria. As Perusall has grown and adapted to respond...
Read moreGetting Started with Perusall
November 10 2021A few weeks ago, I received the following email from a colleague: "How do you keep up with all of those annotations? I know it was supposed to save me time, but I feel like I'm spending hours each...
Read moreIntroducing Multimodal Assignments and Student Uploads
May 27 2021Multimodal assignmentsInstructors can use a variety of materials in their Perusall course: a book from the Perusall catalog, PDFs, EPUBs, Microsoft Word and Excel documents, source code files, web...
Read more5 Tips for Creating Meaningful Reading Assignments with Perusall
March 15 2021How do we get students to engage meaningfully with our course texts? If you’ve been using Perusall for a while, you already know that this technology solves one of the most fundamental challenges we...
Read moreSocial Annotation and Community Building
January 22 2021Although I began using social annotation practices before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, I have found myself increasingly relying on Perusall to guide and structure my classes now that I am primarily...
Read moreHow Perusall helps classes moved online due to Coronavirus
March 08 2020Perusall is a free platform that guarantees students are prepared by managing the entire out-of-classroom experience for you, automatically. We designed Perusall to support learning no matter the...
Read moreCourse affected by COVID-19?
October 01 2019Course affected by COVID-19? Publishers now offering free textbooks through Perusall this spring
[Note: This post refers to a publisher offer from Spring 2020 and is no longer active.]
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