Using Hypothesis with Canvas Course Import or Blueprint Courses

Hypothesis works with Canvas course copy and Blueprint courses, though in some cases we require some additional updates to sync properly with a new course.

Depending on how a course’s assignments are configured, Hypothesis readings that have been imported or copied from a previous term or a Blueprint course may need additional attention before they work properly in the new course.

Hypothesis readings that do not use Canvas-specific features

If your assignments do not use our integrations with Canvas Files, Groups, Pages, or Canvas Studio, then you simply need to copy or import the course and Hypothesis will work correctly in the new course.

Hypothesis readings that use Canvas Groups

The simpler way:

1. Make sure students can see the “People” tab in your Canvas course (Canvas changes the data they make available to external tools based on this).
2. In your new Canvas course, create new Canvas Group Sets that are named exactly the same as the Group Sets from the origin course (Canvas doesn’t copy their Group Sets over as part of the course copy process).
3. As an instructor, launch a Hypothesis Assignment or Module Item that uses our Canvas Groups integration.
4. Optional: re-hide the “People” tab, if that is a requirement in your course.

The harder way:

1. Leave the “People” tab hidden in your course (in some Canvas instances instructors cannot change this setting).
2. In your new Canvas course, create new Canvas Group Sets that are named exactly the same as the Group Sets from the origin course (Canvas doesn’t copy their Group Sets over as part of the course copy process).
3. As an instructor, launch all Hypothesis Assignments and Module Items that use our Canvas Groups integration.

Hypothesis readings that use Canvas Files

The simpler way:

1. Make sure students can see the “Files” tab in your Canvas course (Canvas changes the data they make available to external tools based on this).
2. As an instructor, launch a Hypothesis Assignment or Module Item that uses our Canvas Files integration.
3. Optional: re-hide the “Files” tab, if that is a requirement in your course.

The harder way:

1. Leave the “Files” tab hidden in your course (in some Canvas instances instructors cannot change this setting).
2. As an instructor, launch all Hypothesis Assignments and Module Items that use our Canvas Files integration.

Note: For either method above, if you hide the “Files” tool from students you need to be sure the individual Files you are using are:

• Set to “Published”
• Not directly linked in any hidden Modules

Hypothesis readings that use Canvas Pages

1. Make sure students can see the “Pages” tab in your Canvas course (Canvas changes the data they make available to external tools based on this).
2. As an instructor, launch a Hypothesis Assignment or Module Item that uses our Canvas Pages integration.

Hypothesis readings that use our Autograding feature

1. Ensure that Assignments that should use autograding have that feature enabled in the origin course before copying the course.
2. If this is not possible, you will need to enable autograding for Assignments in the current course.

Will Canvas course import or Blueprint course work with Hypothesis-enabled readings?

• To enable Auto Grading, please edit the assignment and select the checkbox next to “Enable automatic participation grading”.

How to tell if a Canvas tool (Files, People, etc) is visible to students in your course

The Files, Pages and People tools can be found in the left navigation menu. An eye icon with a line through it shown next to the tool listing indicates that the tool is hidden from students. If you do not see any eye icon next to these tools then this indicates that students are able to access the tools. As an example, in the following image the Files tool has been hidden.

If you continue to encounter issues or error messages related to Canvas files access, please see Fixing a Broken Canvas File Link for additional troubleshooting.