Perusall is a social

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tool intended for use by students at schools and universities. It allows users to annotate the margins of a text in a virtual group setting that is similar to

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—with upvoting, emojis, chat functionality, and notification. It also includes automatic AI grading.

History

Perusall began as a research project at

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. It later became an educational product for students and teachers. As of 2024, Perusall states more than 5 million students have used the tool at over 5,000 educational institutions in 112 countries."

Functionality

Perusall integrates with learning management systems such as Moodle,

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and

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to aid with collaborative annotation. The tool supports annotation of a range of media including text, images, equations, videos, PDFs and snapshots of webpages.

References

External links

*{{official website, https://www.perusall.com/ Artificial intelligence Educational technology