How do notes work?

Perusall offers a powerful note-taking feature that allows you to enhance your learning experience. By default, your notes are private, but you have the option to share them with others for collaborative editing.

Notes do not count toward your assignment grade; you will still need to add comments.

Accessing Notes

You can create and manage your notes in two easy ways: 

• Click on Notes to see all your notes for the course. Then, click "New". 
  
  

• With a document open, click the pencil icon in the right sidebar to access the notes panel, and then click + New. If you have pre-existing notes, or someone has shared their notes with you, click Open and select from the dropdown. 
  

Creating Notes

You can create any number of notes. All of your work is saved automatically as you type. 

• When inside a document, select the Notes panel and create a new note or continue working on an existing one. Highlight a selection of the material by using the Annotate Text or Annotate Figure tool to create a snippet. The highlighted material is extracted and you can write your own notes alongside the snippet. 
  
  
  

  Double-click on snippets to see them in context of the reading.

• You can reuse individual notes between multiple different documents and/or assignments to incorporate snippets from multiple sources within the same note.  You can also type in your own notes alongside the snippets that you capture from the text. Learn more about customizing text with dynamic content.

Share your notes

Notes are not shared with anyone else in your course, unless you share them. To share your notes with your instructor and or peers, click Share. A new window will appear where you can select the peers you’d like to grant access to. These users will then have full access to the notes, including the ability to edit or delete them.

To download your notes, click the download icon and it will create a Microsoft Word version of your note that you can download to your computer. (Due to publisher restrictions, snippets that you copy from the text may not appear in downloaded notes.)