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Humanizing your course with VoiceThread

Date: Tue, Jul 1, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

In this session, we will explore the ways that VoiceThread can help your students develop an AI-aware skillset and avoid the academic pitfalls of having a homework-completing co-pilot available 24/7/365. Understanding the human advantage is a critical component of AI readiness curriculum, and VoiceThread is the perfect platform to showcase, preserve, and develop these human-advantaged skills.

VoiceThread Basics 1: Upload, Comment, and Share

Date: Tue, Jul 15, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

In this workshop, you will create a VoiceThread. Participants will learn how to upload media, comment and annotate on that media, and share it with others. This will be a slow paced, step-by-step, hands-on workshop. It is open to both VoiceThread license holders and free accounts.

VoiceThread Basics 2: Groups and Secure Sharing

Date: Tue, Jul 22, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

This is a hands-on workshop. We will begin to explore the features available to VoiceThreaders with a full license. Participants will learn how to create groups and subgroups, set sharing permissions within those groups, and privately share VoiceThreads with individuals.

Hypothesis Summer Intensive

Date: Wed, Jul 23, 2025
Time: 10:00 AM - 01:30 PM

This 3.5-hour comprehensive session includes everything you need: Activating Annotation, Annotating Your Syllabus, Modeling Annotations—plus workshop time to apply what you've learned. Summer Intensive sessions require registration with a minimum of eight participants.

VoiceThread Basics 3: Moderating comments, private and threaded replies, and copying

Date: Tue, Jul 29, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

In our third hands-on workshop in the series, participants will learn how to give private feedback, use threaded commenting, copy VoiceThreads for use with multiple groups, and use comment moderation to formatively assess student work..

Hypothes.is Overview

Date: Fri, Aug 8, 2025
Time: 01:00 PM - 01:55 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.

Please use this Zoom link to join the session. https://hypothesis.zoom.us/j/84224238190

Hypothesis Success Drop-In Hours

Date: Thu, Aug 14, 2025
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM

Have questions about implementing Hypothesis? Want to collaborate and learn from other instructors using Hypothesis at their institutions? Pop in to Office Hours with our success team to ask questions and engage with peers about social annotation with Hypothesis.

Hypothesis Success Drop-In Hours

Date: Thu, Aug 21, 2025
Time: 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM

Have questions about implementing Hypothesis? Want to collaborate and learn from other instructors using Hypothesis at their institutions? Pop in to Office Hours with our success team to ask questions and engage with peers about social annotation with Hypothesis.

Intermediate Hypothesis: Modeling & Prompting Meaningful Annotation and Autograding

Date: Tue, Sep 2, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM - 11:55 AM

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 meaningful original annotations from students, and inviting students to respond to each other. You will leave with strategies that you can apply to your assignment prompts to start seeing better results from student annotations & discussions immediately.

We will also discuss how auto-grading can be used for courses large and small.

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

Please use this Zoom link to join the session. https://hypothesis.zoom.us/j/83781835623

Intermediate Hypothesis: Multimedia Features: Designing with UDL in Mind

Date: Thu, Sep 18, 2025
Time: 01:00 PM - 01:55 PM

Using multiple means of representation (text, images, and video) is a key principle of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and can help students better comprehend and retain essential course concepts. The Hypothesis team will discuss multimodal learning as a core principle of UDL, and how using YouTube video annotation alongside text annotation with scholarly sources like JSTOR can help incorporate multimodal learning in your course. They’ll demonstrate how to set up YouTube video & JSTOR annotation assignments with Hypothesis and review how to add multimedia to annotations.

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

Please use this Zoom link to join the session. https://hypothesis.zoom.us/j/83055249967