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New VoiceThread Features: Fall 2026

Date: Tue, Aug 4, 2026
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

Join VoiceThread for an interactive workshop where we'll explore VoiceThread's newest features, including integrated screen recording, the enhanced Postcard View, accessibility improvements, and the new VoiceThread Courses environment. You'll see how these updates can make teaching, learning, and feedback more engaging, efficient, and human-centered. Throughout the session, you'll have opportunities to work hands-on with these new tools so you can leave ready to use them in your own courses.

Hypothes.is Overview

Date: Thu, Aug 6, 2026
Time: 02:00 PM - 02:55 PM

We will discuss how collaborative annotation with Hypothesis can be used to make student reading visible, active, and social. Topics covered in this session include:

  • Learning how students can look up difficult words or unknown allusions in a text and share their research as annotations.
  • Pre-populating a text with questions for students to reply to in annotations or notes elucidating important points as they read.
  • Have students identify formal textual elements and broader social and historical contexts at work in specific passages.
  • Have students share their personal opinions on a controversial topic as discussed by an article.

You can join this Canvas course to follow along in Hypothes.is assignments and get access to resources.

Using VoiceThread in Canvas: Part 1- non-graded uses

Date: Tue, Aug 11, 2026
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

This session is for educators who use VoiceThread in Canvas. In this hands-on workshop, you will get to practice creating the two basic non-graded links: VT Home and Individual VT. We will review examples of non-graded uses like lecture delivery, discussion boards, class introductions, syllabus review, and virtual office hours..

New VoiceThread Features: Fall 2026

Date: Tue, Aug 25, 2026
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

Join VoiceThread for an interactive workshop where we'll explore VoiceThread's newest features, including integrated screen recording, the enhanced Postcard View, accessibility improvements, and the new VoiceThread Courses environment. You'll see how these updates can make teaching, learning, and feedback more engaging, efficient, and human-centered. Throughout the session, you'll have opportunities to work hands-on with these new tools so you can leave ready to use them in your own courses.

Using VoiceThread in Canvas: Part 2- Graded Assignments and Rubrics

Date: Tue, Sep 8, 2026
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

This is for people who use VoiceThread in Canvas. In this hands-on workshop, you will get to practice creating assignments through VoiceThread’s Assignment Builder. We will work on the new “Stacked Assignments”, along with the standard Create and Comment assignments. You will see how students submit assignments, and we will review the Instructor’s grading interface, including the new rubric interface.

Intermediate Hypothesis: Social annotation for STEM subjects

Date: Wed, Sep 23, 2026
Time: 02:00 PM - 02:55 PM

The Hypothesis team will discuss how collaborative annotation with Hypothesis can be used to make student reading visible, active, and social in STEM courses. Social annotation's collaborative and metacognitive nature can encourage students to tackle difficult concepts in a new way. For example, social annotation can assist students in identifying patterns and relationships, in analyzing the validity of arguments and/or solutions, and in locating and contextualizing important information in problems. Additionally, it can give instructors an opportunity to guide students through texts or course materials asynchronously.

You can join this Canvas course to follow along in Hypothes.is assignments and get access to resources.