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 Perusall and help them craft high-quality comments. To add this to your course: you can either add it in step two of course set up or
- Navigate to the
Library tab.
- Click on
Add content.
- Select
Making the most learning with Perusall
This assignment includes prompts tailored to various disciplines—STEM, Humanities, and Social Sciences—allowing you to choose the one that aligns best with your course. Students will respond to these prompts without initially seeing their peers' comments, promoting independent thought before group discussion. You have the flexibility to add, edit, or remove 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 articles with 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
These resources can help 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 tips to enhance engagement and improve scores without requiring instructor intervention.
Students can access this feedback before entering an assignment or within the assignment by clicking on the assignment information icon.
To disable dynamic feedback:
- Navigate to your course Settings > Advanced > Scoring
- Select Disable dynamic suggestions for students on how to improve their score
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