On your course page, make sure that editing is turned on by clicking the Edit mode toggle in the upper right corner of your course page.  Scroll to the desired Topic or Week, and at the bottom of that section click Add an activity or resource. In the window that appears, select Perusall 1.3 from the list of options.

On the next screen, click the Select content button.  A window will come up, where you should click the Link to home page button.

After you link the home page and the window closes, scroll down to the Grade section and change the Type to None.  Then scroll to the bottom of the screen and click the Save and return to course button.

During this process, you may see the message below.  If so, check your email and follow the directions sent by Perusall.

On your course page, click the link to Perusall that you created in the previous step.  You'll link to your course's page on the Perusall website.  Choose Start with empty course to begin setting up your course on Perusall.

You have the option to link a textbook to your course.  Adding a textbook to your course in Perusall menas that students will purchase and access the textbook on the Perusall website.  If you're only interested in having your students annotate material other than the textbook, you can click skip this step.

All of Perusall's features are free to use.  However, to support the project, Perusall asks teachers to pay for access, or to have their students pay for access.  You have the option to choose $0 on this screen if you'd prefer not to pay.

On the next screen, you'll enter information about your class.  Fill out the fields for Department, Start date, End date, and Enrollment estimate.

Perusall has an enormous number of options for setting up grading.  For a straightforward setup, we recommend setting the following:

• Scoring and analytics to "Manual grading and engagement analytics"
• Grade sync to LMS to "Automatically sync individual assignment scores back to the LMS"
• LMS gradebook column management to "Instructor creates deep links in LMS; no Perusall gradebook columns will appear in LMS until deep links have been created"

Decide whether you want each student to see comments from all the other students in class, or if you want the students to be placed in groups so that they only see the comments made by the members of their group.

• If you want students to see comments from all their classmates, set Target group size to the same value as Enrollment estimate
• If you want students to be divided into groups, and only see comments from their other group members, set Target group size to the desired number of students per group

The next step is to add the content that you want students to annotate.  In addition to documents and websites, Perusall also allows students to annotate content such as videos and podcast episodes.

After adding content to the library, click the Assignments tab.  Perusall offers several assignments types, but for the most common option, click Standard assignment.

The Basics tab will open.  Add an Assignment name and Submission deadline, and click the Next step button.

On the Content tab,

1. Use the Content to assign menu to choose an item from your Perusall library that the students will read.
2. Indicate how much the students should read in the Range to assign section.  You can choose to assign the entire library item or a portion of it.
3. Note that you can use the Add another part button to have the students review multiple items from the library in a single assignment.

Click the Next step button when done.

On the Options tab:

• Include directions in the Instructions for students field
• Use the Anonymous posting setting to set a policy for whether student names are included with students' comments.  As the instructor, you can always see the name of the student who wrote a comment.  This setting applies only to what the students see, and whether they can see the names of the classmates that wrote the comments.

We recommend keeping the rest of the settings on this screen to their default values.  Click the Next step button when done.

By default, Perusall assignments are scored from 0 to 3 points.  You can change this on the Scoring tab:

1. Click the radio button for Specify custom scoring settings for this assignment
2. Enter a new maximum score in Assignment score range.  Keep the minimum score set to 0 to ensure compatibility with the Moodle gradebook.

Click the OK button when done.

Now that your assignment has been set up in Perusall, it's time to add a link to it in Moodle.  Go to your course page in Moodle, make sure editing is on, and click Add and activity or resource where you want to add the Perusall assignment.  Choose Perusall 1.3 from the menu.  One the next screen, click the Select content button.

In the window that pops up, use the Select assignment menu to choose the Perusall assignment you want to assign.  Make sure Import grading information into LMS is checked, and click Link to this assignment when done.