Teaching the Process, Not the Product
Grades are easy to measure. Learning is not. When higher education started worrying about AI, the focus turned quickly to control. How do we know what’s “authentic”? How do we […]
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Make D2L Grading Easier with the Hypothesis Max Points Feature
Setting up graded Hypothesis readings in D2L just got simpler. The Hypothesis LMS app already allows you to create content items that launch Hypothesis alongside your documents, letting students annotate […]
AI Detection Won’t Save Education. Connection Will.
AI Detection Won’t Save Education. Connection Will. The past year has seen a wave of new tools promising to detect whether student work was generated by AI. On the surface […]
Stay Connected to Every Annotation with Unanchored Annotations
If you’re a regular Hypothesis user, you’ve probably come across an “Orphan”; an annotation that’s lost the text it was originally anchored to on the page. This can happen when […]
Students Are Telling Us They Feel Invisible. We Should Listen.
Every week, another story surfaces about what it feels like to learn in the shadow of AI. The one that stuck with me most recently came from Maclean’s: a student […]
Classroom Tip: Image Annotation Jams to Build Critical Thinking Skills with Visual Analysis
A common warm-up activity in humanities courses is visual analysis. In this exercise, instructors share an image related to the day’s topic or theme and invite students to examine it […]
Human-Centered Learning in the Age of AI
Every conversation I have with campus leaders these days starts in the same place: pressure. Shrinking budgets. Uncertain enrollment. A sense that everything in higher education is under review. But […]
How Faculty Use Hypothesis to Support Struggling Students in Real Time
Reaching Students Before It’s Too Late By the time a student fails a test, skips class, or disappears from an online discussion, it’s often too late to intervene effectively. Traditional […]
Building Community with Comment Starters in Annotation Discussion
In their now-classic textbook for first-year college writers, They Say / I Say, Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein introduce students to academic argumentation through the use of templates, sharing phrases […]
What the Research Says About Social Annotation and Student Retention
Retention Starts with Engagement Colleges and universities are investing significant resources in student retention—through advising, financial aid, and wraparound services. But one of the most powerful levers for keeping students […]