Desire2Learn Integration Features

Roster Sync

Each time you launch Perusall from Desire2Learn, a roster sync is run in the background.  Any students that have added to your LMS course will be added to your Perusall course roster (under the Students tab), and any that have unenrolled will be removed from the course.

Group Sync

If enabled by your admin, to access Desire2Learn group sync, navigate to your Perusall course Settings > Grouping, select Specify groups, and then click Import Groups from Desire2Learn to trigger a pop-up window allowing you access to your D2L group sets.  Select one group set to apply to your Perusall course.

Grade Sync

If you'd like to sync scores from Perusall to your D2L course, in your Perusall course, navigate to Settings > Scoring > LMS grade sync.  Learn more about grade sync in LTI 1.3.

• A student’s average score is each individual assignment score summed and then divided by the total number of assignments, while the total score simply takes the sum of across all assignments.

  Syncing the average or total score rather than individual assignment scores saves time because  Perusall will automatically create a grade book column in your LMS course that matches the summary column in your Perusall course, and send the scores for all assignments that have been released and are passed their due date.  To set up average or total grade sync:

  • Launch into your Perusall course> Click Settings > Scoring > scroll to Grade sync to LMS > select Automatically sync students' average or total scores back to the LMS > save.

  Students will click the Perusall link you created in Desire2Learn Instructor Set Up, and Perusall will pass their average or total scores back to D2L as you release assignment scores in Perusall.

• Our LTI 1.3 integration gives instructors the opportunity to manage how gradebook columns in your LMS are created. Instructors can allow Perusall to automatically create LMS gradebook columns for each Perusall assignment, or they can manually create deep links to individual assignments in the LMS.  Released scores can then be sent back to your LMS.

  • If you select to sync students’ individual assignment scores, by default, each time you create an assignment in your Perusall course, a corresponding grade item will automatically be created in your LMS gradebook.  As a result, student scores that have been released in the Perusall gradebook will automatically sync (unless using manual sync). Follow the step below to set this up:

    • Launch into your Perusall course: Click Settings > Scoring > LMS grade sync:
    • Set Grade sync to LMS to Automatically sync individual assignments scores back to the LMS
    • Set LMS gradebook column management to Perusall creates gradebook columns in LMS for each Perusall assignment automatically.
      
    • Click Save.
      

    Students will click the Perusall link you created in Desire2Learn Instructor Set Up, and Perusall will pass their individual assignment scores back to D2L as you release assignment scores in Perusall.

  • If you would like to create deep links to each individual assignment, Perusall will not automatically create the gradebook columns. Follow the steps below to set up deep links:

    • Launch into your Perusall course: Click Settings > Scoring > LMS grade sync:
    • Set Grade sync to LMS to Automatically sync individual assignments scores back to the LMS
    • Set LMS gradebook column management to Instructor creates deep links in LMS; no Perusall gradebook columns will appear in LMS until deep links have been created.
    • Click Save.
    • Return to your D2L course, and you can create deep links.

Creating Deep Links in your Desire2Learn Course

1. Create your assignments in Perusall first.
2. In your D2L course, navigate to a Module, and click Existing Activities > Perusall Deep Link.
3. In the next screen, select Perusall. A window will pop up that will allow you to select a Perusall assignment to link.
   1. Under Assignments, click on the dropdown to select an assignment.
   2. Ensure that Import grading information to LMS is enabled, and click Link to this assignment.
4. Beside the assignment title, click on the  > Edit Properties in Place, and enable Open as External Resource.
5. Refresh the page, and open the assignment. It will take you directly into the Perusall assignment.

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