Perusall | Increase Student Engagement with Social Learning

Ensure every student is prepared for every class

On average, only 20-30% of students do assigned reading; with Perusall, >90% do the reading.
Students learn more than twice as much information from assignments, with no effort from the instructor.

Engage students at scale

Students help each other learn by collectively commenting on readings and videos, responding to each other, and participating in a social learning environment.
Students get instant feedback and motivation; instructors get continuous insights on student engagement.
Instructors use Perusall online or in-person in small classes or large lectures in all disciplines.

Save time and improve your teaching

Perusall can automatically grade student engagement based on up to 7 criteria using a machine learning model. The model is pre-trained and your data is not used to train the model.
Perusall's analytics and reports such as the student confusion report offer insights on student activity.
Perusall uses generative AI and machine learning to save instructors time while managing their courses.

Simplify book orders and use a variety of course materials

Adopt ebooks from our catalog of > 1.2 million titles from 54,000+ publishers.

Upload open educational resources, Google docs, slides, PowerPoint, Word documents, and PDFs, integrate videos, web pages, audio, and podcasts, and more.

Keep your administration happy

Administration-friendly, FERPA compliant, secure, free of advertising, and we never sell your data.
Perusall integrates with your institution's learning management system and will partner with your campus bookstore.
Institutional licenses are available.

Stay at the forefront of educational innovation

Research studies based on Perusall are published frequently and represented here.
Use Perusall beyond the classroom for faculty reading groups, author-led book events, summer reading programs, and more.

Set up the whole semester in 15 minutes

Deliver all your course material in one place: adopt ebooks from our Perusall catalog, incorporate open educational resources, or upload your own materials to transform your content into a social learning experience, including multimodal, peer review, and differentiated assignments. Copy over previous course material, rubrics, and scoring templates for new terms.
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Screenshot of Perusall's content addition interface highlighting versatile educational resources from books to podcasts.

Keep students intrinsically motivated

Students comment on course material and respond to each other using our social features such as upvoting, hashtags, quote reply, emojis, GIFs, and more. Students can tag one another, receive notifications, and get dynamic student feedback when working on assignments, eliciting rich discussion and facilitating deeper understanding of course material.

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Image of a Perusall conversation discussing physics, where one user asks if gravitational and electric fields are mutually exclusive and another confirms they are not, citing the interaction between electric and magnetic fields as fundamental to various technologies like radio and electromagnetic motors.

Get complete insights

Use automatic scoring to reduce time spent grading, and automatically sync grades with your institution's LMS. Keep track of student progress at a glance and use the Confusion Report to summarize student questions and help plan class time.
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Learn more about assessment and analytics