Hypothesis Partner Workshops

Summer Workshop Series 1: Social Annotation for Retention and Student Success

In this series, 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 four workshops, you’ll receive a Certificate of Attendance for the Summer 2024 Seminar in Social Annotation as a PDF certificate you can share.
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All sessions are on Zoom on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10am PT/1pm ET.

• June 11, 2024: Social annotation for equity and belonging
• June 13, 2024: Hypothesis: Designing with UDL in mind
• June 18, 2024: Annotation starter assignments
• June 20, 2024: Grading and feedback for social annotation

Session Descriptions:

Social Annotation to Foster Equity and Belonging in Education (30 minutes)

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 (30 minutes)

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. 

Annotation starter assignments (30 minutes)

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.

Grading and feedback for social annotation (30 minutes)

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.

Summer Workshop Series 2: Social Annotation Starter Pack

In this series, we’ll review everything you need to start using Hypothesis social annotation in your courses. 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 Summer 2024 Seminar in Social Annotation as a PDF certificate you can share.
Register here

All sessions are on Zoom on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10am PT/1pm ET. Note that you only need to register for the session relevant to your LMS in the second week.

• July 30, 2024: Annotate your syllabus
• August 1, 2024: Annotation starter assignments
• August 6, 2024: 10am PT: Hypothesis in Canvas; 10:30am PT: Hypothesis in D2L Brightspace
• August 8, 2024: 10am PT: Hypothesis in Blackboard; 10:30am PT: Hypothesis in Moodle

Session Descriptions:

Annotate your syllabus (30 minutes)

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 them 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.

Annotation starter assignments (30 minutes)

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.

Hypothesis in your LMS (30 minutes)

The Hypothesis team will review the technical details of how to use Hypothesis in your LMS. We will demonstrate how to set up a Hypothesis-enabled reading used with course files and other types of media in your LMS. We’ll also briefly review grading and using small-group annotation. Participants will gain a clear understanding of how to start setting up social annotation assignments on their course site.