Hypothesis for Faculty & Instructors
Engage Your Students Like Never Before
Transform course readings into interactive discussions with Hypothesis, the online annotation tool designed for higher education. By allowing students to collaborate directly on course materials, Hypothesis enhances comprehension, increases participation, and fosters critical thinking—all within your Learning Management System.
How Hypothesis Works for Faculty
Assign Readings with Hypothesis
Upload PDFs, share webpages, videos, or link to articles directly within your LMS. Students can begin annotating as they read.
Foster Active Discussions
Students highlight text, leave comments, and reply to each other—turning passive reading into an engaging conversation.
Track Engagement with Our Reporting Dashboard
See who is participating, how often, and where students may be struggling with real-time insights.
Stay Connected Through Notifications
Students can @mention you and their peers in annotations to ask questions, seek clarification, or share insights, allowing you to provide timely feedback and foster deeper engagement.
Experience a transformation in your courses.
Educators use Hypothesis directly within their LMS, seeing immediate impact and results for both their students and the teaching experience.
Improve coursework completion and comprehension.
Social annotation holds students accountable and pushes them to read closely, thoroughly, and thoughtfully – proven to lead to a 2X increase in comprehension of materials.
Easy to grade, easy to see impact.
We seamlessly integrate into your LMS gradebook so you can keep track of your students progress. Institutions have seen students grades improve by 18% after adopting Hypothesis.
Retain more students in your courses.
Students love how engaging and interactive Hypothesis is. The result? A demonstrated 32% increase in class retention after adopting Hypothesis.
Why Faculty Use Hypothesis
Increase Student Engagement
Get students actively involved with course materials instead of just skimming through them.
Improve Reading Comprehension
Help students gain a deeper understanding with collaborative, in-context discussions.
Encourage Critical Thinking
Students go beyond surface-level reading by questioning, debating, and expanding on ideas directly in the text.
Streamline Grading
With built-in Auto Grading, easily track and assess student participation in discussions.
Enhance Classroom, Online & Hybrid Learning
Keep students engaged—whether in-person or remote—by making reading more interactive with social annotation.
Support Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI)
Create meaningful student-instructor interactions with in-line discussions, helping meet federal RSI requirements for online courses.
Seamless LMS Integration
Works effortlessly with Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, D2L Brightspace, and Schoology—no extra logins or platforms needed.
Make Learning More Social
Turn reading into a shared experience where students build on each other’s ideas, fostering a stronger learning community.