AI in education is evolving fast, and you may be faced with new challenges—especially when it comes to student engagement and academic integrity. At Perusall, human interaction remains central to the learning experience. Here are some ways to help students remain focused and engage authentically.

Scoring tips

Shift toward holistic grading practices to deepen student engagement by:

• Allowing for participation-based annotations to encourage low-stakes engagement
• Include upvoting or credit for getting responses
• Enable a post-deadline reply window to foster discussion beyond initial deadlines
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  Learn more about scoring templates

Features & tools

Foster an environment for academic integrity and original thought by:

• Disabling copying & pasting text in your course
• Encouraging students to leverage the available citation helper when posting from other sites
• Accessing your course’s audit page to review flagged or potentially plagiarized comments
• Staging comments to give students an opportunity to share opinions and ideas before viewing other conversations
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  Learn more about academic integrity features

Assignment types

Intrinsically motivate and build student confidence by:

• Utilize review-based assignments to establish a student community focused on constructive and supported feedback
• Add optional or extra credit assignments for additional practice
• Assign the six-step, scaffolded “Making the Most of Learning with Perusall" assignment
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  Watch our review-based assignments webinar

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Drop us a note at support@perusall.com or reply directly to this email with additional questions or ideas.

We also invite you to join our PerusHall community where you can exchange ideas and share experiences with other educators using Perusall worldwide.