Professional Development

Create a professional development course for faculty and staff to enhance methodologies, skills, and practices related to teaching and learning. Use the following page to create your own PD course.

Template course

Setup:

Initial steps:

Create a Perusall course for your PD or use our pre-made template. You can also copy this template with this course code: DE6CJF23A7
Add books from Perusall’s Catalog, upload PDFs, and more in your course library
Under settings change terminology: i.e. instructor → facilitator; student → participant
Adjust language in Getting Started

Perusall course:

Consider using the pre-populated Learning Resources Hub folder for additional resources outside of book content (i.e. related links or interesting sub-topics)
Utilize hidden folders to house materials if you’d like to encourage participants to work within assignments as opposed to the course library
Leverage participant upload folders such as the pre-populated Participant Generated Resources folder to allow your participants to upload their own work or research
Decide which chapters, PDFs, videos and/or other content to include per week or day
Adjust dates and deadlines so that participants only see that week or day’s assignment
Introduce each week’s reading with videos, pre-quizzes, descriptions, and more
Go into each weekly assignment and highlight text to add discussion prompts.

Begin your course:

Invite participants to your course using the Participant enrollment code located in Settings > Access or share with them your Participant enrollment URL.
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Book orders

The Perusall catalog features over 1,200,000 titles, encompassing diverse subjects from Humanities to Science, English, Mathematics, and beyond. Interested in a book outside of our catalog? Contact orders@perusall.com and our Operations Team will be happy to assist.

Perusall also works with campus bookstores to provide access codes for students who may want to purchase their ebooks through the bookstore. Bookstores should contact orders@perusall.com to place an order for access codes.

Support

If you have additional questions, need technical assistance, or would like to discuss a feature idea, contact Perusall Support.
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