Using Hypothesis With D2L Brightspace Course Content Files

Note: This feature requires that a D2L administrator has enabled a D2L OAuth 2.0 Hypothesis app integration.

Hypothesis reading assignments can work with PDFs uploaded to the D2L Course Content area. To avoid confusion, we recommend keeping these source files separate from the the Hypothesis reading assignments by creating a separate Module or Unit specifically for the uploaded PDFs.

Create a “Hypothesis PDFs” Module or Unit for uploading source PDFs

Note that this new module or unit is only a repository to upload and store PDFs. You will be creating the actual Hypothesis reading assignments separately in a different module or unit.

The instructions below differ depending on whether you are using D2L Classic Content Experience, or the New Content Experience.

Classic Content Experience

1. From your course Home page, click on the Content link to navigate to the Content area of your course
2. In the Table of Contents sidebar, click the Add a module… button
   
3. Name your module “Hypothesis PDFs” and press enter to create the new module
4. Confirm that the Hypothesis PDFs module is visible to students by checking the eye icon in the upper right
   
5. You may wish to add an optional description to the Hypothesis PDFs module informing students not to open any of the PDFs from here, and directing them to the appropriate module that contains the Hypothesis reading assignments
6. To upload PDFs, click the Upload/Create button and select Upload Files
7. Select My Computer, and on the following page click the Upload button to browse to and select your PDF(s) for upload
   
8. Click the Add button to upload your selected PDF(s)
9. Confirm that you see the uploaded PDF(s) listed
   
10. Note: if you see an eyeball icon with a line through it to the right if the file name, this indicates that the PDF is hidden from students. If so, click the eyeball icon and then click again to make it visible.
    

New Content Experience

1. From your course Home page, click on the Content link to navigate to the Content area of your course
2. In the left sidebar, click the +New Unit button
   
3. Name your unit “Hypothesis PDFs”
4. You may wish to add an optional description informing students not to open any of the PDFs from here, and directing them to the appropriate unit that contains the Hypothesis reading assignments.
5. At the bottom of the page click the eye icon to make the unit visible to students
   
6. Click the Save and Close button to finish
7. With the new “Hypothesis PDFs” unit selected, click the Add Existing button
   
8. At the bottom of the “What would you like to add?” page, click the Browse button to select the PDF(s) for upload
   
9. Back at the Content page, select the uploaded PDF from the “Hypothesis PDFs” unit and click the eye icon in the upper left corner of the document preview to make the PDF visible to students
   

Creating Hypothesis reading assignments with D2L-stored PDFs

When creating the Hypothesis reading assignments for your students, we strongly recommend placing these assignments in a separate content module or unit, rather than using the above “Hypothesis PDFs” module. You can then direct students to open the appropriate designated Hypothesis annotation assignment, avoiding any confusion between the actual Hypothesis assignment and the bare uploaded PDF item.

You can find in-depth instructions for creating a Hypothesis-enabled reading in D2L here.

When choosing the document source, you will have the option to Select PDF from D2L.

Each course content module or unit will be shown as a folder, allowing you to browse to “Hypothesis PDFs” and select an uploaded PDF to use in your Hypothesis-enabled reading.