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!
Fall 2024 Workshops
Social annotation for student retention and success: November 2024
Join us for our November workshop series and take a pedagogical deep dive into social annotation! During November, we’ll explore teaching strategies related to Hypothesis in your courses, specifically geared toward increasing student retention and success. Register for as many sessions as you’d like to attend below. If you register and attend all three workshops, you’ll receive a Certificate of Attendance for the November 2024 Seminar in Social Annotation as a PDF certificate you can share.
All workshops take place Thursdays at 11:30am PT/2:30pm ET.
- 11/7/24: Social annotation for equity and belonging
- 11/14/24: Hypothesis: Designing with UDL in mind
- 11/21/24: Grading and feedback for social annotation
Register for as many sessions as you’d like to attend.
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Session Descriptions:
Social annotation for equity and belonging
The Hypothesis team will share how instructors can implement Hypothesis social annotation into their courses in order to increase equity and belonging amongst students. We’ll first broadly discuss pedagogical strategies for increasing equity and belonging in teaching and learning. Then, we’ll dive into specific strategies instructors can use with Hypothesis social annotation in their own courses. Participants can expect to come away from the workshop with concrete assignment ideas for using Hypothesis social annotation with equity and belonging in mind.
Hypothesis: Designing with UDL in mind
Using multiple means of representation (text, images, and video) is a key principle of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and can help students better comprehend and retain essential course concepts. Hypothesis recently introduced YouTube video transcript annotation as a new feature as well as the ability to annotate articles directly from the JSTOR database. In addition, Hypothesis annotations can include links, images, text, and videos. Christie from the Hypothesis team will discuss multimodal learning as a core principle of UDL, and how using YouTube video annotation alongside text annotation with scholarly sources like JSTOR can help incorporate multimodal learning in your course. She’ll demonstrate how to set up YouTube video & JSTOR annotation assignments with Hypothesis and review how to add multimedia to annotations.
Grading and feedback for social annotation
While there are multiple options for grading in Hypothesis, the importance of incentivizing participation cannot be overstated. To help spark interest in annotation, instructors need to provide clear guidelines that reward high-quality contributions. In this workshop, the Hypothesis team will present foundational components in creating either an analytic or holistic rubric for annotation, as well as establishing a framework for effective feedback. Social annotation lends the ideal format for assessing and promoting continuous learning, so join this session to gather ideas and tools to take your grading and feedback practices to the next level.
Hypothesis Winter Wonderland: December 2024
Tuesday Quick Start for Spring Series
Learn how to integrate collaborative annotation into your courses. This beginner series provides practical guidance to enhance student engagement and foster interactive, discussion-based learning.
All workshops take place on Tuesdays at 11:00am PT/2:00pm ET.
- 12/3/24: Quick Start: Activating Annotation in Your LMS
- 12/10/24: Annotate Your Syllabus
- 12/17/24: Annotation Starter Assignments
Register for as many of the sessions as you’d like.
Quick Start Workshop Descriptions:
Quick Start: Activating Annotation in Your LMS
Prepare for the winter and spring terms with this workshop series focused on getting started with Hypothesis. The Hypothesis team will share how teachers are using annotation-powered reading to help students develop foundational academic skills like deep reading and persuasive writing. In addition to sharing pedagogical best practices for social annotation, we will demonstrate how Hypothesis is used with course readings in your LMS.
Annotate Your Syllabus
Engage students from the start by having them annotate the syllabus collaboratively. This low-stakes activity fosters discussion, encourages questions, and sets a tone for engagement. Join the Hypothesis team to explore strategies for implementing this assignment and learn how collaborative annotation can enhance student success throughout the term.
Annotation Starter Assignments
This workshop is ideal for instructors who are interested in using social annotation in their courses but aren’t exactly sure how to provide guidance to students. The Hypothesis team will review ideas for annotation starter assignments and provide you with ready-to-use instructions for a variety of disciplines and modalities. It doesn’t matter if you’re teaching humanities, business, STEM, or the health professions, or if you’re teaching face-to-face or online — you’ll get strategies from this workshop that you can add immediately to an assignment in your course.
December Thursday Learning Lab Series
Join us for an engaging series designed for advanced users, focusing on Hypothesis features and current issues in educational technology.
All Learning Lab workshops will take place on Thursdays at 11:30am PT/2:30pm ET.
- 12/5/24: Hypothesis New Features
- 12/12/24: Effective digital reading with Hypothesis
- 12/19/24: Design Thinking: Hypothesis for instructional designers and technologists
Register for as many of the sessions as you’d like.
Learning Lab Workshop Descriptions:
Hypothesis New Features
The Hypothesis team will host a review of recently released Hypothesis features, including course copy, exporting and importing annotation sets, instructor dashboards, video annotation, autograding. Ideally, attendees will already be familiar with using Hypothesis.
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.
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.