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
Monthly 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.