what are the advantages of Hypothesis over Perusall? just curious, too late to switch for this semester but definitely committed to using a tool like for the foreseeable future
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UW–Madison doesn't offer Perusall or Hypothesis integration with our LMS. When this is the case, Perusall has begun pestering instructors to let Perusall charge students a fee, and also there are copyright issues for readings I upload there. Hyp. is totally free & there are no copyright issues.
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thanks. we have Perusall integration and no fee except for whole-book purchase... so far.
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In that case I’d probably just use Perusall. I think it’s a great system, and it does have that great @-everyone function, which I like to use when a comment/comment thread has raised an important point.
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Hyp. is more involved to set students up in, and is lacking one key feature that Perusall offers, viz. the ability to @-reply the whole class (rather than single students, which Hyp. now has).
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