The Perusall Blog

New Perusall Features March 2023

The 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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11 Ways to Excite your Students and Transform your Teaching

2022 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...

A Look at Active Learning | Social Learning Amplified

Perusall's Newest Features

The 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...

A Look at Perusall for the Community College Population | Social Learning Amplified

Perusall: Transforming the Way Students Read for Class

Being 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,...

A Look at Perusall & Mastery Learning | Social Learning Amplified

A Look at Ungrading, Part 2 | Social Learning Amplified

A Look at Ungrading, Part 1 | Social Learning Amplified

A Look at Peer Instruction | Social Learning Amplified

The Benefits of Using Perusall in a First-Year Seminar Course

Do 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...

Perusall: A Student's Perspective

Using 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...

Grading Just Got Easier: Perusall's Summer 2022 Updates

It’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...

Aisles Full of Annotations! Ginsberg’s Supermarket in Perusall

Strolling 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 ...

Social Annotation and Community Building

Although 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...