Enrolling in your course
If your instructor has integrated Perusall with your school's Learning Management System (Canvas), launch the appropriate Perusall links within the learning management system. There is no course code.
How to highlight, create comments, and join conversations
- When you open a document, you'll see highlights superimposed on the document that represent comments that you and other students have entered.
- Yellow highlights indicate comments or questions by you or other students; blue highlights indicate comments from your instructor.
- To start a conversation, highlight some text; once you finish highlighting, you will see a panel open on the right where you can type your comment. Press Enter or Return to submit the comment; your classmates will see it appear in real time. (If you are having trouble highlighting text, see this page.)
- When someone responds to your question or comment, you will receive a notification by email and you can post a reply by either signing on or merely replying to the email.
- To add to a conversation started by one of your classmates, simply click on the highlight in the text to open up the conversation panel, type your comment, and then press Enter.
- You can also highlight part of a figure rather than text by using the toolbar buttons at the top. When you have elected to highlight a figure, click and drag to draw a box around the area of interest, or simply click to drop a map pin.
- While reading the document, change which comments you see by clicking the filter dropdown at the top of the page (which says All comments by default).
See also, What do all the icons mean? (Student)and How do I highlight and create, edit, or delete a comment?
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