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
March Learning Lab Series: Social Annotation for Teaching and Learning
April Learning Lab Series: Summer Prep
Spring 2025 Workshops
March Learning Lab Series: Social Annotation for Teaching and Learning
Join our dynamic monthly series designed for educators navigating 21st-century learning. In March, we’ll explore how social annotation can complement other innovative teaching approaches, including open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogy, universal design for learning, and teaching in the age of generative AI.
Each session will provide adaptable, ready-to-use instructions to enhance engagement in your courses.
All Learning Lab workshops will take place on Thursdays at 11:30am PT/2:30pm ET. Sessions run 30-45 minutes long.
Register for as many of the sessions as you’d like.
March 13: Using Social Annotation to Support OER and Open Pedagogy
Explore how Open Educational Resources (OER) and social annotation support open pedagogy by fostering collaboration, critical thinking, and student-driven learning. This session will introduce strategies for integrating OER and interactive annotation tools to create engaging, participatory course experiences. Leave with practical, adaptable techniques to empower learners as knowledge creators.
March 20: Modeling Annotations for Your Students
Hypothesis offers your 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. In this workshop, we provide strategies for prompting original annotations and responses that can help your students contribute to the intellectual rigor of the conversation while inviting follow up responses. We also discuss how your annotations can provide good examples for students. You will leave with strategies that you can apply to your assignment prompts to immediately start seeing better results from student annotations.
March 27: 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.
Spring 2025 Workshops
April Learning Lab Series: Summer Prep
Already thinking about your summer courses? Try social annotation to boost engagement and enhance learning next term! Each session will provide adaptable, ready-to-use instructions to enhance engagement in your courses.
All Learning Lab workshops will take place on Thursdays at 11:30am PT/2:30pm ET. Sessions run 30-45 minutes long.
Register for as many of the sessions as you’d like.
April 3: Activating 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.
April 10: Annotate Your Syllabus
Asking your class to annotate the syllabus allows you to introduce students to social annotation in a low-stakes way. Even better, you’re providing students with an opportunity to engage with the syllabus, to share ideas and to ask questions about the course in a way that sets the tone for engagement throughout the term. In this workshop, the Hypothesis team will review ideas and guidance for the collaborative syllabus annotation assignment.
Participants can expect to come away from this session with a clear idea about how they can start incorporating collaborative annotation into their courses to improve student success.
April 8: Enhancing Critical Thinking & Collaboration in Health Sciences with Hypothesis
2:30 ET
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The Hypothesis team will share how you can use collaborative annotation to help students develop foundational academic skills like deep reading and critical thinking in the context of nursing and other health sciences education.
In addition to sharing pedagogical best practices for social annotation, we will demonstrate how Hypothesis is used with course readings in your LMS. Participants will gain a clear understanding of how to start incorporating social annotation into their courses to improve student outcomes.
April 15: Boosting Analysis & Collaboration in Legal Education with Hypothesis
2:30 ET
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The Hypothesis team will share how you can use collaborative annotation to help students develop foundational academic skills like deep reading and critical thinking in the context of legal education.
In addition to sharing pedagogical best practices for social annotation, we will demonstrate how Hypothesis is used with course readings in your LMS. Participants will gain a clear understanding of how to start incorporating social annotation into their courses to improve student outcomes.