Perusall for Students

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• What Is Perusall?
• How Do I Access Perusall?
• Get Started with Perusall
• Troubleshooting Issues & Additional Support

What Is Perusall?

Perusall is an annotation tool for digital text (PDFs, e-books, websites, etc.).Perusall enables collaborative annotation among students, instructors, TAs, and other course members.

It's essentially reading together and highlighting the text to leave comments for the instructor or your peers. They can then reply to your highlighted comments to start a discussion.

How Do I Access Perusall?

1. Log into Canvas with your PennKey username and password.
2. Enter your Canvas course site. 
3. Click the Perusall button. 

Get Started with Perusall

We recommend reviewing Perusall's Getting Started guide.

Important: Please disregard the instructions for logging into Perusall on the web. You'll access Perusall through Canvas. 

How to Use Perusall

• How do notes work?
  
• How do I read a "clean copy" of the book, without the highlights?
• Zoom or Increase the Text Size

Troubleshooting Issues & Additional Support

• I can't highlight part of the text
• Can I print from a document or a reading assignment?

Please contact us at online-learning-help@sas.upenn.edu and we will be happy to assist with any Perusall questions.