Introduction

Hypothesis allows for collaborative annotation on online documents such as websites or PDFs. Students can create annotations and reply to others.

Using Hypothesis

1. Open the More menu in the Settings Bar at the top of your course page.

2. Select "LTI External Tools" from the list. 

3. Click the switch button across from "Hypothesis" in the "Show in activity chooser" column.

1. Enable Edit mode in your course, then select ⊕ or +Add activity or resource in the topic where Hypothesis should be added.

2. Select Hypothesis  from the Activity Chooser.

3. Under the Grade section, select the desired points or make it an ungraded item.

4. Click the Save and return to course button at the bottom of the page.

1. Click the activity you just created.

2. On the next page, enter a URL or upload a PDF.

  • After selecting the resource, you'll be able to select text, click to Annotate, and make reading prompts for students. Prompts are optional.
  • When students login to the activity, then can reply to the teacher prompts, make their own unique annotations, reply to classmates' annotations, or simply highlight text.

Hypothesis does not yet recognize groups within AsULearn , so there is not a setting built in to select separate or visible groups. To limit access to a Hypothesis activity to a particular group of participants, Hypothesis suggests the following steps.

1. First, create a unique PDF for each small group.

It is possible to create a PDF, apply a different fingerprint to that PDF, and then use the unique PDFs for each of the activities. Without unique fingerprints, all participants in the site will see the annotations of peers.
Hypothesis Help Page for Creating PDFs with unique fingerprints. - Link

2. Use the Restrict Access setting to limit which participants can access it.

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