Course Content

Transform your course content into a social experience

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Adopt a book from the Perusall Catalog
Add social learning to the books you use in your course by selecting from our catalog of over 1,200,000 titles from 54,000+ leading publishers.
Upload PDFs, EPUBs, Google Docs and Slides, Powerpoint slides, and Canvas pages
Upload documents and slides to your course directly from your computer, or import from your favorite cloud service or from your LMS.
Integrate videos, podcasts, images, and web pages
Create engaging multimodal assignments by including videos, podcasts, or images, or assign content from the web.
Select publisher logos that have books in the Perusall catalog. Pearson, McGraw Hill, Macmillan, Wiley, Penguin Random House, OpenStax, Hachette, Taylor & Francis, Norton, Oxford University Press, and Wolters Kluwer.
Students can highlight text and comment on PDFs, EPUBs, Google Slides, and more. Upload documents and slides into your Perusall course.
Students can comment on material that you integrate into your course. This includes video from the web or Google Drive, podcasts, images, or web pages.
Boclips video partners: Newsy, Crash Course, BozemanScience, The Business Professor, Bloomberg, Professor Dave Explains, TBP, and Step Back History.
Instructors can create quizzes in their Perusall course adding multiple questions that include Text only, Multiple Choice, Multiple Answer, Numeric Entry, Short Answer, Essay, and Math Expression.
Multimodal assignment example that you can create in your course. Create a two-part assignment that includes a book and video.
Draw from an “ed-ready” video library
Adopting an OpenStax book? Perusall partners with Boclips so you can add Boclips’ ad-free, “ed-ready” videos that are curated from trusted sources and aligned to each chapter of most OpenStax books. Learn more in our video below.
Add a quiz or survey
Create a quiz (or import directly from your LMS) to integrate formative assessment into your assignments.
Create multimodal assignments
Assign book chapters, sections, or pages from as many books as you like. Then integrate book content with journal articles, videos, podcasts, images, and quizzes or surveys to deliver dynamic, multimodal assignments that keep students engaged.
Clear digital rights
Uploading copyrighted content in your course that your institution doesn't already license? Perusall partners with the Copyright Clearance Center so students simply pay a copyright clearance fee to access the content.
Share materials across courses
Teaching the same class again? Copy materials, assignments, and instructor discussion prompts from a previous course. Or collaborate with other instructors by sharing course content with them while keeping your students' data private.
Student folders
Create folders where students can upload their own material, to facilitate collaboration and set the stage for peer review.
Within your Perusall course, you can clear digital rights with the Copyright Clearance Center. Once cleared, students can pay a small fee to access copyright content.
Instructors can start with an empty course or copy existing course material over to a new course. Copy from your own course or from another instructor's with a code.
Instructors can create a folder in their Library for students to share material with each other. Once uploaded, students can see material. Create a peer review assignment.
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