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Transform nearly any type of course content into a social learning experience, driving meaningful engagement and deeper understanding.
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    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.

    Save time and improve your teaching

    • Perusall can automatically grade students' engagement with the content.
    • Start class using Perusall’s Student Confusion Report — a one-page summary of concepts that confused students, along with some of the best comments.

    Simplify book orders and use the materials you need

    • Combine open educational resources (OER), your own materials, & books from our catalog of > 1.2 million ebooks from 54,000 publishers.
    • Upload Google Docs, Google Slides, PowerPoint, Word documents, and PDFs, integrate videos, web pages, and podcasts, and more.

    Keep your administration happy

    • Administration-friendly, FERPA compliant, secure, free of advertising, and we never sell your data.
    • Perusall works with bookstores and all LMSes.
    • Custom institutional licenses are available.

    Stay at the forefront of educational innovation

    • Benefit from continually updated and rigorously evaluated educational innovations.
    • Instructors use Perusall in classes from 2 to 4,000+ students in all disciplines and professional development settings.
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    Join 40,000 instructors, at 3,000 educational institutions, teaching 1.5 million students, in 112 countries.

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    Set up the whole semester in 15 minutes

    Deliver all your course material in one place: adopt ebooks, 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 for new terms.
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    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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    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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