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
October Workshops
November Workshops
October Learning Labs
October Partner Workshops
Our October Learning Labs focus on sustaining momentum as the semester progresses — from re-engaging students with readings once the initial excitement has worn off, to expanding your practice into open, freely accessible course materials.
Register for as many of the sessions as you’d like.
Learning Lab: 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, October 1 – 2:30PM ET
Register HereLearning Lab: Social Annotation, Open Pedagogy, and OER
Interested in teaching through freely available online materials and Open Educational Resources (OER)? Open pedagogical practices invite students to learn collaboratively and even to become knowledge creators in their own right, all while lowering textbook and material costs which provide barriers to learning.
Using Hypothesis social annotation over free, open access, and OER materials encourages more authentic and community-driven formative assessment than publisher banks and traditional homework activities. This workshop prepares faculty to build Hypothesis assignments using publicly-available learning materials and support students in the collaborative modification of OER texts.
Thursday, October 22 – 2:30PM ET
Register HereNovember Learning Labs
November Partner Workshops
Our November Learning Labs round out the term with a mix of pedagogy and product — deepening how you prompt meaningful student annotations, plus a look at newer Hypothesis features to carry into your next course.
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.
Thursday, November 5 – 2:30PM ET
Register HereLearning Lab: Hypothesis Advanced Features
The Hypothesis team will host a review of recently released Hypothesis features, including paced annotation, image annotation, instructor dashboards, autograding, and at-mentions. Ideally, attendees will already be familiar with using Hypothesis.
Thursday, November 19 – 2:30PM ET
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