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!
Upcoming Workshops
January Workshops
February Workshops
March Workshops
Spring Series
January Partner Workshops
Learn how to integrate collaborative annotation into your courses. This workshop series provides practical guidance to enhance student engagement and foster interactive, discussion-based learning.
Register for as many of the sessions as you’d like.
Learning Lab
Modeling and Prompting Meaningful Annotations
Social annotation offers students a way to build community while they annotate course documents, but just because we create an annotation assignment does not mean that students automatically know how to write meaningful annotations. This session provides strategies for increasing instructor presence in annotation activities, prompting meaningful original annotations from students, and inviting students to respond to each other. You will leave with strategies that you can apply to your assignment prompts to start seeing better results from student annotations & discussions immediately.
- Jan 22, 2026 – 02:30 PM ET
Learning Lab
Social Annotation for Digital Reading in the Age of AI
How do digital environments and generative AI shape student reading? This workshop explores how social annotation with Hypothesis supports active, critical, and mindful reading in the digital age. Participants will examine research on digital reading, learn how annotation can reduce distractions and deepen comprehension, and explore ways to foster authentic engagement with or without AI tools. The session includes best practices for integrating Hypothesis with AI and a demo of setting up readings in your LMS. Participants will leave with practical strategies and ready-to-use assignments to enhance digital reading and interaction.
- Jan 29, 2026 02:30 PM ET
Spring Series
February Partner Workshops
Explore how social annotation supports discipline-specific teaching and learning across the curriculum. This workshop series focuses on practical strategies for engaging students with complex texts, primary sources, and technical materials through collaborative annotation.
Register for as many of the sessions as you’d like.
Learning Lab
Making Humanities Courses Interactive: Annotation of Primary Sources
Discover how social annotation can transform your students’ engagement with primary sources in the humanities! In this workshop, you’ll learn strategies to spark collaborative annotation, inspire critical analysis, and ignite discussions around historical and cultural texts.
Learn how to design impactful annotation assignments, simplify grading workflows, and guide students toward meaningful, cumulative projects using Hypothesis. Plus, see how seamless integration with JSTOR brings rich academic content directly into your courses.
- Feb 19, 2026 – 1 PM ET
Learning Lab
Social Annotation for 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.
- Feb 26, 2026 1 PM ET
Spring Series
March Partner Workshops
Design with intention and re-energize student reading experiences using social annotation. This workshop series highlights how Hypothesis supports thoughtful course design, instructional workflows, and flexible strategies for engaging students at any point in the semester.
Register for as many of the sessions as you’d like.
Design Thinking: Hypothesis for Instructional Designers and Technologists
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.
- Thursday, March 5 – 2:30-3:15 ET
Re-engage Your Students: Trying Hypothesis with Your Mid-Semester Readings
Are you looking to re-engage your students with your course readings, but feeling concerned that it might be too difficult to try something new with them mid-semester?
Hypothesis social annotation integrates seamlessly into your LMS and has an intuitive interface that will make it easy for your students to start annotating. This workshop reviews ways to use Hypothesis to get students reading more actively and engaging more authentically with each other. Whether you are brand new to the tool or a former user looking for new ideas, you will leave this workshop with actionable strategies to implement with your next digital reading assignment.
- Thursday, March 26 – 2:30-3:15 ET