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Perusall Instructor Support

Perusall's Instructor Support guides online cover the four broad topics listed below. Each topic has more specific guides with images and video guides. 

• Courses: getting started, creating and deleting courses, chats, groups, reusing a course, archiving a course, materials in languages beyond English
• Content: adding and managing content, folders, textbooks, scanned documents, managing files, podcasts, hashtags, analytics
• Assignments: create, edit, and delete assignments, reorder assignments, deadlines, peer review, quizzes, reviewing student work, comments, enabling anonymous comments, enabling downloadable material
• Scoring and grades: enabling and disabling grades, overriding Perusall scores, course engagement, comment quality, threshold scoring, syncing grades with Canvas

Changing a Course Name in Perusall

If you are teaching two sections of the same course, you may want to change the name of each course in Perusall for clarity. This is easy to do, but be aware that if you change the name of the Perusall course, the URL to access the course will change. If you have given this URL to students who may have bookmarked it, the old link will no longer work, and they need to book mark the updated URL. 

Step 1: Open a course in Perusall. Click on the "Settings" tab in the menu on the left side of the screen. 

Step 2: Adjust the name of the course in the field that says "Course name." 

Step 3: Be sure to click the green "Save changes" button at the bottom of the page!