Setting up a Perusall Assignment

Setting up assignments

**Start in Moodle, rather than Perusall to reduce headaches and the need to copy content later from one course to another!!

Add a Perusall link to your course by turning on editing and selecting Add an activity or resource and selecting the External tool type.

In the resulting window, enter Perusall (or anything) for the activity name, and select Perusall from the dropdown Preconfigured Tool list.

**Do not click the “Select Content” button, simply click Save and Display to be launch the Perusall link.

When you launch this link for the first time, Perusall will create a course for you that is connected to your Moodle course.

Setup the Course 

  • Set the Department, Course start/end dates, Enrollment estimate, Target group size (all optional) then click Save
  • Click the Blue arrow next to the Add Course materials link to begin adding course content

  • Use the list or the Add Content dropdown menu to add your content to the Perusall course

  • To add an Assignment, click the Assignment button at the top of the screen

  • Then use the Add Assignments dropdown button and choose Add Assignment

  • Use the dropdown menu on the right to choose Content to assign, then select from the list the item you wish to assign.

  • Use the Options and Scoring tabs to add additional information and scoring for this assignment and when finished click Save changes.

Grade Sync and Moodle/Perusall Assignment Name match

To enable grade sync, add Perusall links to Moodle that map to assignments in Perusall.

For each reading assignment you create in Perusall, add the Perusall external tool to Moodle again; to link to the proper assignment in Perusall.

  • Make sure that the name of the link in Moodle exactly matches the name of the assignment in Perusall.

To retrieve the name of an assignment in Perusall (Perusall assigns names automatically when you have not explicitly given an assignment a name), select it in the Assignments panel on your Course home page in Perusall, and then click the Copy full title for LMS button in the toolbar. The assignment name will be copied to the clipboard, and you can edit the existing external tool assignment in Moodle and paste it into the name field.

       

To test that the assignment linkage works, launch the assignment in Moodle and ensure that you are taken to the correct assignment in Perusall — you should bypass the course home page in Perusall when clicking on a Perusall assignment from Moodle.

Note: To ensure that grade sync works throughout the semester, make sure that students access each Perusall assignment by clicking through the corresponding assignment in Moodle. If a student accesses an assignment in Perusall without clicking through the corresponding Moodle assignment at least once, then Perusall will not be able to send that student’s score back to Moodle. (You may want to remove the generic link you set up in the previous section — or hide it from students — to ensure that students always access the Perusall assignments through the corresponding Moodle links.)