Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome to the student overview of Perusall. Perusall is an interactive platform around your content that helps you learn faster by collaboratively annotating the course readings and communicating with your classmates. This collaboration gets your questions answered faster, empowers you to help others, makes learning more engaging, and helps the instructor emphasize the most important aspects of your readings. Your instructor may have specific questions placed in the readings and everywhere else. Feel free to ask the questions and discuss the topics that matter most to you.
If you have a question or information to share about a passage in the readings, you can highlight the text and type in a comment as an annotation. You can also respond to a classmate's annotation in threads in real time or up foot questions you find helpful. Good annotations contribute to the class by stimulating discussion, explaining your thought processes, helping others, and drawing attention to good points. If a particular classmate's point is relevant, you can explicitly mention them with the @ symbol and they'll immediately be notified even if not presently signed in.
Now let's move on to the built-in tour of the Perusall interface and the various buttons and icons. Here we have the Perusall interface. Yellow highlights, correspond to threads started by students, and blue highlights correspond to threads started by an instructor. Here you'll see avatars for each course member that is currently reading this document. Click or tap here to comment on or ask a question about text, then highlight the text you want to comment on. Click or tap here to comment on a figure. To pinpoint a single part of a figure, click or tap to indicate the point you want to comment on. To highlight a region of a figure, click and drag, long press, and then swipe on a touchscreen device to draw a rectangle that indicates the part of the figure you want to comment on.
Click here to browse the full list of students' comments and questions. Click here to browse a list of students' comments and questions that you have starred for later review. Click here to navigate the document by viewing page thumbnails. Click here to navigate the document via the table of contents. Click here to search the contents of the entire book. When students or instructors respond to one of your comments, you're notified here. And lastly, you can take notes that are private to you or you can share them with other course members. Type text or highlight text or pictures to copy in with links back to the document.
The last important topic to cover is grading. Some courses may not use grading with Perusall, but if your course uses graded Perusall assignments, the actual grading criteria varies by instructor. Depending on your course settings, here are some of the activities and habits that you may need to do for full credit; contributing thoughtful questions and comments to the class discussion spread throughout the entire reading, starting the reading early, breaking the reading into chunks instead of trying to do it all at once, reading all the way to the end of the assigned reading, posing thoughtful questions and comments that elicit responses from classmates, answering questions from others, and upvoting thoughtful questions and helpful answers. Be sure to review the Perusall information specific to your course delivered in the syllabus announcements or course pages.
That concludes this overview on Perusall and good luck with your course.