Hypothesis Learning Lab October and November 2026 Webinar Series

The upcoming Hypothesis Learning Labs focus on sustaining momentum as the semester progresses — from re-engaging students with readings once the initial excitement has worn off, to expanding your practice into open, freely accessible course materials.

Re-engage Your Students: Trying Hypothesis with Your Mid-Semester Readings

Are you looking to re-engage your students with your course readings but concerned that trying something new with them mid-semester might be too difficult? This workshop reviews ways to use Hypothesis to help students read more actively and engage more authentically with each other. Whether you are new to Hypothesis or an experienced user seeking fresh ideas, you will leave this workshop with actionable strategies to implement with your next digital reading assignment.

Register for Re-engage Your Students: Trying Hypothesis with Your Mid-Semester Readings Webinar on Thursday, October 1, 2026, @2:30 PM EDT

Social Annotation, Open Pedagogy, and OER

Interested in teaching through freely available online materials and Open Educational Resources (OER)?

Open pedagogical practices invite students to learn collaboratively and even to become knowledge creators in their own right, all while lowering textbook and material costs that pose barriers to learning. Using Hypothesis social annotation, open-access, and OER materials encourages more authentic and community-driven formative assessment than publisher banks and traditional homework activities.

This workshop prepares faculty to design Hypothesis assignments using publicly available learning materials and supports students in collaboratively modifying OER texts.

Modeling and Prompting Meaningful Annotations

Social annotation offers students a way to build community while they annotate course documents, but just because we create an annotation assignment does not mean that students automatically know how to write meaningful annotations.

This session provides strategies for increasing instructor presence in annotation activities, prompting students to produce meaningful, original annotations, and inviting students to respond to one another. You will leave with strategies that you can apply to your assignment prompts to start seeing better results from student annotations & discussions immediately.

Learning Lab: Hypothesis Advanced Features

The Hypothesis team will host a review of recently released Hypothesis features, including paced annotation, image annotation, instructor dashboards, auto-grading, and at-mentions. Ideally, attendees will already be familiar with using Hypothesis.