What is Hypothesis?                                                                

Hypothesis is an easy-to-use pedagogical tool that enables students and teachers to have conversations in the margins of digital texts. Using social annotation gives you new ways to foster student success by building community, critical thinking, and a deeper understanding of readings.

Resources                                                                                  

This Hypothesis course has training materials and resources for you to use while using Hypothesis in your classes.  

Check out these Brightspace-specific and more general annotation resources in this module: Hypothesis Resources

More Resources                                                                       

Guides

• • Using Hypothesis in Brightspace: Guide for CCC Instructors
  • Hypothesis for Higher Education

Ideas and Examples

• • Annotation Starter Assignment Ideas
  • Resources for Social Annotation
  • Back to School with Annotation: 10 Ways to Annotate with Students in Hypothesis 
  • Annotate Your Syllabus 3.0: A blog post by Remi Kalir
  • Hypothesis: Examples of Classroom Use

Further Reading

• • Edutopia: Social Annotation in the Digital Age
  • Taking Annotation Digital: A Strategy for Online Teaching & Learning
  • Educause: Leveraging Technology to Create Social Readers
  • Tools for Teaching: Social Annotation: A blog post by Kevin Gannon
  • The New York Times: Skills and Strategies | Annotating to Engage, Analyze, Connect and Create
  • Social Annotation and the Pedagogy of Hypothes.is
  • Bringing Theories to Practice: Universal Design Principles and the Use of Social Annotation to Support Neurodiverse Students

Training Opportunities                                                          

The Hypothesis team offers partner workshops throughout the year and we’d love to have you join us at one or more of them. There are some great options for both new users and more advanced users of the tool. View the description and schedule of these workshops.

Technical support                                                                    

Hopefully, you and your students won’t experience any technical issues when using Hypothesis in Brightspace. However, if you do, both you and your students can create a support ticket here. 

You can also create a support ticket and access all of the Hypothesis Knowledge Base articles directly in the annotation sidebar in your Hypothesis readings.