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.

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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.

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Foster Active Discussions

Students highlight text, leave comments, and reply to each other—turning passive reading into an engaging conversation.

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Track Engagement with Our Reporting Dashboard

See who is participating, how often, and where students may be struggling with real-time insights.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.  

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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.

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Encourage Critical Thinking

Students go beyond surface-level reading by questioning, debating, and expanding on ideas directly in the text.

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Streamline Grading

With built-in Auto Grading, easily track and assess student participation in discussions.

Enhance In-Person, Online and Hybrid Learning

Enhance Classroom, Online & Hybrid Learning

Keep students engaged—whether in-person or remote—by making reading more interactive with social annotation.

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Support Regular and Substantive Interaction (RSI)

Create meaningful student-instructor interactions with in-line discussions, helping meet federal RSI requirements for online courses.

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Seamless LMS Integration

Works effortlessly with Canvas, Blackboard, Moodle, D2L Brightspace, and Schoology—no extra logins or platforms needed.

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Make Learning More Social 

Turn reading into a shared experience where students build on each other’s ideas, fostering a stronger learning community.

Testimonials

Associate Professor of Teaching/Instruction
Temple University
Marcia Bailey
"Hypothesis is an excellent tool to engage students with the text and with each other. I used it almost weekly this semester."
Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology
Knox College
Nancy Eberhardt, Ph.D.
"Hypothesis gets students talking to each other about the reading outside of the classroom in a way that I have never been able to see happen before. They come to class much more ready to talk about the reading, and I have a sneak preview of the issues they found most compelling, as well as the ones they might have missed"
Professor of English
Florida State University
Candace Ward, Ph.D.
"I’ve found Hypothesis invaluable in engaging students with assigned reading material…The students say very smart things; they engage with each other very civilly and respectfully, and they synthesize their annotations with other class discussions, projects, and readings."
ESOL Instructor
Peralta Community College District
Danitza Lopez
"We love Hypothesis! This handy tool allows us to go deeper than any other platform because we can directly have discussions about a particular word/sentence/paragraph within a text. We even use it for peer reviews, and it works super well. It is such an easy tool to use, too!"
Professor of English
Cerritos College
Francie Quaas-Berryman
"I have found Hypothesis to be a great way to guide students through online reading, provide additional resources directly through the text, and engage them in online discussions of the text!"
Professor of Chemistry
Rutgers University–Camden
Dr. Georgia Arbuckle-Keil
"I noticed that the personality of the students came through...I gain insight into the students beyond what is possible in the classroom. Even after we are back in person, I have enjoyed getting to know students via Hypothesis beyond a typical classroom response."
Distinguished Professor
Information Science and Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder
Leysia Palen
"With Hypothesis, everyone’s visible to each other and so we really do have a chance at creating a learning community. Students get to know each other’s names. Conversations with Hypothesis feel very warm and collegial. Nobody has to be afraid of raising their hand"
Assistant Professor
Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Metropolitan State University of Denver
Dr. Sonny Dhoot
"Hypothesis allows us to push the limits of what we think is required as a solitary activity. Every time I ask my students to annotate, it has a very clear purpose and will directly benefit the students. The annotations are almost like a ‘living’ text that they are able to go back to. With Hypothesis, students are actually reading together, and they are giving each other feedback. I would never have thought that you could do that."

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