Yes;
 
A part of UofT's Academic Toolbox

No;
 
Not a part of UofT's Academic Toolbox. If you would like to use it in your course, you would need to manage the tool and any required licenses yourself. You can sign up for a free Perusall account on perusall.com homepage. Students pay full retail prices to read/annotate publisher textbooks or other copyrighted materials. No cost for other uploaded documents.

Yes;

Can be used for graded Assignments and ungraded learning activities in Quercus.

No;

Perusall is not integrated into Quercus – you can’t sync course roster and grades. Students and instructors annotate readings within or uploaded to Perusall.

Perusall can be added to Quercus Navigation using Redirect tool. See Add a link to your course navigation using the Redirect tool.

Create a new Assignment in Quercus using Hypothes.is tool in the External Tool option and upload or insert the digital content.

View detailed steps on the CTSI website: Hypothesis and in Hypothesis knowledge base: Using the Hypothesis LMS App With Assignments in Canvas

Create an assignment in Perusall:

1. Access Perusal from perusall.com homepage
2. Create your course
3. Add readings to your course
4. Create assignments

1. Create a Reading List for your course
2. Add the app to the navigation panel in Quercus. See Adding the Library Reading List Tool to Quercus.

You can create a new Assignment in Quercus using the Read and Respond app in the External Tool option and select the copyright-approved digital content from your Reading List. See How do I start using this feature?

• Open textbooks and Open Educational Resources
• Webpages and online articles
• PDFs and EPUBs
• JSTOR & VS article/e-texts
• YouTube video transcripts

• Textbooks from Perusall catalog (with student-paid fees)
• Webpages
• PDFs and EPUBs
• MS Word and Google Docs documents
• PowerPoint presentations
• Source code files
• Images in JPG, GIF, or PNG format
• Videos and podcasts

• PDF files 
• Electronic articles, streaming media, digitized content and other digital materials available through the U of T library resources

• Text in any character set
• Links
• Images
• Videos (YouTube, Vimeo)
• Equations
• Tags

• Text in any character set
• Links
• Images hosted internally
• Videos hosted externally
• Equations
• Tags

• Text 

• Annotations can be private (visible only to the student) or public (shared with the class)
• Annotations can be anonymous
• No one can edit or delete anyone else’s annotations
• Each annotation can anchor threaded discussions
• Highlights are private

• Annotations and bookmarks are private by default
• When shared, student annotations can be edited or deleted by instructors and other students
• Highlights without notes and threaded discussions are not supported

• Public annotations are enabled by default
• Students can add private notes

• Instructor assesses student annotations in SpeedGrader (Hypothesis-enabled readings must be created as Assignments)
• Instructor sees how many annotations the student created
• Added comments are visible only to the student graded
• Entered grades are sent to the course Gradebook in Quercus

• Auto-scoring feature that grades student annotations with an algorithm.
• Grades are accessed in Perusall native Gradebook
• Grades are only calculated automatically for courses with at least 15 students

• Instructor assesses student annotations in SpeedGrader if an assignment with resources from the course Reading List was set up.
• Added comments are visible only to the student graded
• Entered grades are sent to the course Gradebook in Quercus

When uploading files to Hypothesis assignments, use only materials for which you have the rights (e.g., written permission from the  author(s), Creative Commons, OER, etc.)

Check with your liaison librarian about copyrights on articles before uploading to Hypothesis.

Perusall requires instructors to assume responsibility for copyright on uploaded content. Proprietary textbooks purchased through Perusall include access rights for purchasing users.