Register for Spring 2025 Hypothesis Training Series

Rutgers Canvas is pleased to offer training by Hypothesis Instructional Design team for a series of webinars that help students engage with your instructional content. Hypothesis brings discussion directly to course content by enabling students and teachers to add comments and start conversations in the margins of their texts.

Register for Lab Modeling Annotations for Your Students

When: March 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Description: The Hypothesis team will share how instructors are using collaborative annotation to help students develop foundational academic skills like deep reading and critical thinking. In addition to sharing pedagogical best practices for social annotation, we will demonstrate how Hypothesis is used with course readings in Canvas. Participants will gain a clear understanding of how to start incorporating social annotation into their courses to improve student outcomes.

Register for Social Annotation in the Age of AI

When: March 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Description: The rise of generative AI has sparked essential conversations in education. In this workshop, the Hypothesis team will demonstrate how to use social annotation to encourage authentic, process-oriented engagement with course materials—whether you’re incorporating AI tools or not. They’ll also share best practices for using social annotation with AI writing tools and demonstrate how to set up Hypothesis-enabled readings in your learning management system (LMS). Participants will leave with practical, ready-to-use assignments to implement in their courses right away.

Register for Activating Annotation in Your LMS

When: April 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Description: The Hypothesis team will share how instructors are using collaborative annotation to help students develop foundational academic skills like deep reading and critical thinking. In addition to sharing pedagogical best practices for social annotation, we will demonstrate how Hypothesis is used with course readings in your learning management system (LMS). Participants will gain a clear understanding of how to start incorporating social annotation into their courses to improve student outcomes.

Register for Annotate Your Syllabus

When: April 10, 2025 @2:30 PM
Description: Asking your class to annotate the syllabus allows you to introduce students to social annotation in a low-stakes way. Even better, you’re providing students with an opportunity to engage with the syllabus, to share ideas and to ask questions about the course in a way that sets the tone for engagement throughout the term. In this workshop, the Hypothesis team will review ideas and guidance for the collaborative syllabus annotation assignment. Participants can expect to come away from this session with a clear idea about how they can start incorporating collaborative annotation into their courses to improve student success.