• Upload a variety of materials—PDFs, Word documents, Excel files, videos, images, ePub ebooks, and some websites—and assign your students to read, annotate, and discuss the materials with each other.
• To get students started with Perusall, upload your syllabus and ask students to annotate it with questions, comments on the topics that they’re most interested in, or suggested additional readings. Ask them to respond to one another’s remarks, answering questions if possible.
• You can create a special folder into which students can upload their own writings and have their peers give them feedback.
• Before students start their own writing assignment, you can upload sample work from a past student (with their name redacted) and ask students to evaluate it based on the rubric you’ll use for their version of that assignment.
• Upload a captioned video your lecture and ask students to post insights, connections to the reading, or questions and ask them to answer each others’ questions.

UVM has connected the Perusall tool to work and sync with Brightspace. This link MUST be initiated within a Brightspace course (not on the Perusall website directly). This platform is secure, and FERPA compliant. At this time, you can still use Perusall for free with your students. The company prompts new users with an option for a paid subscription for students, however this is not a requirement to use the product. Simply enter "0" for the dollar amount. 

Instructions for setting up and using Perusall are on the UVM Knowledge Base, Perusall.

Additional resources for instructors are on the Perusall Knowledge base.

Miller, K., Lukoff, B., King, G., and Mazur, E. (2018.) Use of a social annotation platform for pre-class reading assignments in a flipped introductory physics class. Frontiers in Education, 3(8).