Perusall is a social annotation tool that integrates with Blackboard via LTI assignments. Perusall allows students and their instructors to collaboratively markup .pdf documents and annotate videos. Instead of reading a document or watching a video and discussing it, Perusall brings the discussion to the text/video.
Create a Perusall Course - Always Start in Blackboard
- Navigate to your Blackboard course.
- Edit your course menu to add a Content Area specifically for Perusall. Make sure it is available to students. Rearrange your new Perusall Content Area on your course menu to a logical position.
- Click the Perusall link on the left course menu that you created in Step 2.
- Click Build Content > Web Link.
- Name the link “Perusall Home Page.”
- Use this as the URL: https://app.perusall.com/lti/launch
- You MUST check off the box for “This link is to a Tool Provider.”
- For this Perusall Home Page link, choose “No” for Enable Evaluation.
- Click Submit – this link will take you and your students to Perusall.
- Within Perusall, add documents/videos to the Perusall library.
Perusall has published additional Blackboard Integration information.
Create Auto-Graded Perusall Assignments
- Click on the Perusall Home Page link in Blackboard that you previously created.
- In Perusall, create an Assignment using content previously uploaded to your Perusall Library.
- Click on the newly created Perusall Assignment and click the icon for “Copy full title for LMS.”
- Navigate back to Blackboard and click the Perusall link on the left course menu.
- Click Build Content > Web Link.
- Paste the title of the assignment from Perusall into the field for the name of the link (this should be stored in your computer’s clipboard from Step 3; if it does not paste, repeat Step 3).
- Use this as the URL: https://app.perusall.com/lti/launch
- You MUST check off the box for “This link is to a Tool Provider.”
- Choose “Yes” for “Enable Evaluation” and set the point value to 3 (this is the default point value in Perusall; if you edited the points for an assignment in Perusall, you’ll also need to edit the value here to match).
- Click Submit – this link will take you and your students to that specific Perusall Assignment.
- You should now see a corresponding column in your Blackboard Grade Center for this Perusall Assignment.