Everyone Included: Hypothesis Accessibility Reaches WCAG 2.1
Hypothesis has passed another inclusivity milepost: Our social annotation tool now meets rigorous level WCAG 2.1 AA compliance when used in a learning management system (LMS).
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Breaking Boundaries With Social Annotation: An Interview With Amanda Licastro
Amanda Licastro talks about how she uses social annotation in a wide variety of different classes and assignments to build classroom community, digital literacies, and scholarly practice with her students.
Hypothesis Social Annotation Now With Blackboard Groups
Instructors using Blackboard Learn can now assign Hypothesis-powered readings using Learn’s built-in Groups feature, enabling learners to annotate together with fully customizable group settings that fit any course configuration.
Social Annotation and the Student Voice
Ultimately, it’s students who benefit most when they seed the margins of assigned readings with comments, questions, answers, links, memes, GIFs, emojis, and more. So what do students consider the advantages of reading with social annotation?
Meet Our New Director of Product
Chris Shaw joins our product team, where he’ll coordinate how to augment Hypothesis to move social annotation forward. Learn about Chris’s career arc, why he’s excited about Hypothesis, and his takes on bots, community building, huskies, and more.
Hypothesis Annotation: Now in Microsoft OneDrive
Our LMS app now enables annotation on PDFs stored in Microsoft Sharepoint and OneDrive, adding to our existing capabilities to annotate public web pages and PDFs stored in Google Drive, Canvas Files, and Blackboard’s Content Collection.
Thoughtfully Adopting EdTech: Ontario’s Shift to Social Annotation
Building community around a community-building tool: How eCampusOntario is expanding social annotation with Hypothesis across an entire province.
What’s That Sound? A Million People Annotating
Hypothesis now has over a million users. How did we get here? By making reading active, visible, and social for the world.
1,000 Students and 20,000 Annotations: First Data in Large-Scale Social Annotation Research
A special guest post by Dr. Remi Kalir, our inaugural scholar in residence, and second in our series about our large-scale research collaboration at Indiana University, investigating how social annotation improves student reading and writing practices.
To Annotate or Not To Annotate (With Students) — That Is the Question
A special guest post by Dr. Justin Hodgson, Associate Professor of English at Indiana University Bloomington, and first in our series about our large-scale research collaboration at IU, investigating how social annotation improves student reading and writing practices.