Perusall
{{Short description|Web annotation tool}}
Perusall is a social web annotation tool intended for use by students at schools and universities.{{cite web |title=About Perusall |url=https://www.perusall.com/about |website=Perusall |access-date=16 January 2023}} It allows users to annotate the margins of a text in a virtual group setting that is similar to social media—with upvoting, emojis, chat functionality, and notification. It also includes automatic AI grading.{{cite web |last1=Hodgson |first1=Justin |title=Social Annotation as Writing: Promising Technologies and Practices in Writing Studies |url=https://osf.io/fr56e/download |access-date=16 January 2023}}
History
Perusall began as a research project at Harvard University.{{cite web |last1=King |first1=Gary |title=An Introduction to Perusall |url=https://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/ph.pdf |website=Harvard University |access-date=16 January 2023}} It later became an educational product for students and teachers.{{cite web |title="What is Perusall?" |url=https://www.montclair.edu/itds/instructional-tech/perusall/ |website=Montclair State University Instructional Design and Tech |publisher=Montclair State University |access-date=13 January 2023}}
As of 2024, Perusall states more than 5 million students have used the tool at over 5,000 educational institutions in 112 countries."
Functionality
Perusall integrates with learning management systems such as Moodle, Canvas and Blackboard to aid with collaborative annotation.
The tool supports annotation of a range of media including text, images, equations, videos, PDFs and snapshots of webpages.{{cite web |last1=King |first1=Gary |title=An Introduction to Perusall |url=https://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/ph.pdf |website=Harvard University |access-date=16 January 2023}}{{cite journal |last1=Clarke |first1=Andrew |title=Perusall: Social learning platform for reading and annotating |journal=Journal of Political Science Education |date=2021 |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=149–154 |doi=10.1080/15512169.2019.1649151|s2cid=202328976 }}
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External links
- {{official website|https://www.perusall.com/}}