How do my students make the most of social learning?

​To enhance your students' social learning experience on Perusall, consider implementing the following strategies

Making the Most of Perusall" introductory assignment

Perusall offers a 30-minute assignment designed to familiarize students with social learning within the platform and help them craft high-quality comments. You can add this to your course during step two of the initial course setup, or at any time by following these steps

1. Navigate to the Library tab.​
2. Click on Add content.
3. Select Making the most of learning with Perusall.

This assignment includes prompts tailored to various disciplines—STEM, Humanities, and Social Sciences—allowing you to choose the option that aligns best with your course. Students will respond to these prompts without initially seeing their peers' comments, promoting independent thought before the group discussion begins. You have complete flexibility to add, edit, or remove these prompts as needed.

Share resources on writing effective comments

Encourage students to engage meaningfully by providing them with guidelines on writing insightful comments. Perusall offers specific articles featuring examples of high-quality comments across various disciplines:

• Writing Good Comments in the Humanities
• Writing Good Comments in the Social Sciences
• Writing Good Comments in STEM

Sharing these resources helps students understand how to clarify ideas, connect concepts, and extend discussions effectively.

Utilize Dynamic Feedback with Paige

Perusall's virtual assistant, Paige (our little bookworm), provides real-time, dynamic feedback to students as they work through assignments. Paige offers tailored tips to enhance engagement and improve scores without requiring instructor intervention.

Students can access this feedback before entering an assignment or from within the assignment by clicking the assignment information icon.

To disable dynamic feedback

1. Navigate to your course Settings > Advanced > Scoring.
2. Check the box for Disable dynamic suggestions for students on how to improve their score.