Hypothesis Partner Workshops
Hypothesis is a social annotation tool installed directly in your learning management system (LMS). Adding Hypothesis to readings in your course supports student success by placing active discussion right on top of readings, enabling students and teachers to add comments and start conversations in the margins of texts.
To learn more about making reading active, visible, and social using Hypothesis, please join us in one of our upcoming workshops. RSVP via one of the links below.
Can’t make a workshop time? Reach out to success@hypothes.is to schedule a workshop for your department or school!
Spring 2025 Workshops
Activating Hypothesis Annotation in your LMS
January Learning Lab Series
February Learning Lab Series
Spring 2025 Workshops
January Quick Start Workshops
Activating Hypothesis Annotation in your LMS
In our Activating Annotation sessions, the Hypothesis team will share how instructors are using collaborative annotation to help students develop foundational academic skills like deep reading and critical thinking. In addition to sharing pedagogical best practices for social annotation, we will demonstrate how Hypothesis is used with course readings in your learning management system (LMS). Participants will gain a clear understanding of how to start incorporating social annotation into their courses to improve student outcomes. (30 minutes)
Register for an Activating Annotation session to learn how to use Hypothesis in Blackboard, Canvas, D2L Brightspace, or Moodle. All Activating Annotation sessions are 30 minutes and 11:00 PT / 2:00 ET. If none of these times work for you, please contact success@hypothes.is to schedule an individual session.
Register for as many of the sessions as you’d like.
Wednesday, January 15 at 11:00 PT / 2:00 ET (30 minutes)
Activating Annotation in Canvas
Tuesday, January 21 at 11:00 PT / 2:00 ET (30 minutes)
Activating Annotation in Blackboard
Wednesday, January 22 at 11:00 PT / 2:00 ET (30 minutes)
Activating Annotation in Moodle
Spring 2025 Workshops
January Quick Start Workshops
Monthly Learning Lab Series
Join us for our engaging monthly series designed for beginner and advanced users. These workshops focus on pedagogy as well as current issues in higher education and educational technology.
All Learning Lab workshops will take place on Thursdays at 11:30am PT/2:30pm ET. Sessions run 45 minutes long.
Register for as many of the sessions as you’d like.
Thursday, January 9, 2025 at 11:30 PT/2:30 ET (45 minutes)
Leveraging social annotation in the age of AI
The rise of generative AI has sparked essential conversations in education. In this workshop, the Hypothesis team will demonstrate how to use social annotation to encourage authentic, process-oriented engagement with course materials—whether you’re incorporating AI tools or not. They’ll also share best practices for using social annotation with AI writing tools and demonstrate how to set up Hypothesis-enabled readings in your LMS. Participants will leave with practical, ready-to-use assignments to implement in their courses right away.
Thursday, January 16, 2025 at 11:30 PT/2:30 ET (45 minutes)
Effective digital reading with Hypothesis
How do screens affect how students read, and how can social annotation help students be better readers? This workshop is ideal for instructors interested in how reading practices have evolved in the digital age and how current research into digital reading can better inform how we talk about reading in our classrooms. In addition to a discussion of digital reading, participants will learn how social annotation can counteract distractions, enhance comprehension, and encourage critical thinking by transforming digital texts into interactive discussions that promote active and mindful reading.
Thursday, January 23, 2025 at 11:30 PT/2:30 ET (45 minutes)
Creative ways to use social annotation in your courses
Looking for strategies to foster rich, student-driven annotation discussions? In this workshop, the Hypothesis team will share research-backed methods and active learning strategies to make social annotation more engaging and impactful. Participants will leave with a range of creative ideas for effectively incorporating social annotation into their courses.
Thursday, January 30, 2025 at 11:30 PT/2:30 ET (45 minutes)
Design thinking and social annotation
This workshop for instructional designers and technologists explores how Hypothesis social annotation can support course learning objectives by fostering meaningful peer and instructor interactions. Our discussion will begin with an interactive examination of social annotation through different design and pedagogy frameworks. We will then review considerations such as course copy, the process of exporting and importing facilitator annotations, and other technical details for using Hypothesis in blueprint/master course shells.
Spring 2025 Workshops
February Quick Start Workshops
Monthly Learning Lab Series
Join us for our engaging monthly series designed for beginner and advanced users. These workshops focus on pedagogy as well as current issues in higher education and educational technology.
All Learning Lab workshops will take place on Thursdays at 11:30am PT/2:30pm ET. Sessions run 45 minutes long.
Register for as many of the sessions as you’d like.
Thursday, February 6, 2025 at 11:30 PT/2:30 ET (45 minutes)
Social Annotation for Large Courses
Creating active learning experiences in large courses can be challenging. This workshop focuses on using Hypothesis social annotation to enhance student engagement, comprehension, and retention. The Hypothesis team will share strategies for managing high volumes of annotations, efficient grading techniques, and expanding collaborative annotation to support student success. The session will also include a demo of Hypothesis’s new participation auto-grading feature. Participants will leave with practical ideas to integrate social annotation effectively into their courses.
Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 11:30 PT/2:30 ET (45 minutes)
Social Annotation in STEM Subjects
The Hypothesis team will discuss how collaborative annotation with Hypothesis can be used to make student reading visible, active, and social in STEM courses. Social annotation’s collaborative and metacognitive nature can encourage students to tackle difficult concepts in a new way. For example, social annotation can assist students in identifying patterns and relationships, in analyzing the validity of arguments and/or solutions, and in locating and contextualizing important information in problems. Additionally, it can give instructors an opportunity to guide students through texts or course materials asynchronously. The session will also include a demo of Hypothesis’s new participation auto-grading feature.
Thursday, February 20, 2025 at 11:30 PT/2:30 ET (45 minutes)
Social Annotation with Primary Sources in the Humanities
Explore how social annotation can deepen student engagement with primary sources in the humanities. This session highlights strategies for collaborative annotation, fostering critical analysis and discussion around historical and cultural texts. Participants will learn how to structure annotation assignments effectively, streamline grading, and scaffold toward cumulative projects using Hypothesis. The session will also demonstrate the integration of JSTOR materials, making it easier to incorporate rich, academic content into courses for enhanced learning and analysis.
Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 11:30 PT/2:30 ET (45 minutes)
Research-based Strategies for Social Annotation
In this workshop, the Hypothesis team will review two pedagogical approaches for social annotation assignments as described in peer-reviewed research: expansive framing and participation roles. This will include describing each pedagogical strategy’s goals for student learning. We’ll discuss how to implement each of these pedagogical approaches in your teaching and why they are effective for social annotation practice in particular. We’ll also explore the findings of the research and considerations for real-world application. Participants can expect to come away with new insights and strategies for implementing Hypothesis social annotation in their classrooms.