Hypothes.is is a pedagogical tool that enables students and teachers to have conversations in the margins of digital texts. Using social annotation gives you new ways to foster student success by building community, critical thinking, and a deeper understanding of readings.
Here are some things to expect when using Hypothesis for social annotation in Blackboard.
Note: In order for PDFs to be annotable and accessible for students with screen reading devices, you will want to make sure that your PDFs are OCR-optimized.
Sometimes you may find yourself working with a PDF in which none of the text is selectable. This usually happens when a PDF is created from scanned images of text. You can use OCR technology to optimize these PDFs. There are a variety of other tools you can use, but you can use this free tool to OCR your PDFs: docdrop.
Read more about the accessibility of your PDFs: How to OCR PDFs.
* - Items with a college-wide license have an asterisk
Seneca has a license to hypothes.is which can be used in Blackboard.
Select a learning path (or multiple learning paths) below to make sure you are comfortable using Hypothesis in your courses this term.
Faculty Resources:
Student Resources:
The Quick guide to secure handling of confidential student information for faculty using online learning tools (.PDF) (developed by the Teaching & Learning Centre and ITS) helps faculty choose secure online tools for teaching. The guide provides guidelines and examples to help faculty consider the information students might be giving up when using a new tool. It is intended for quick use of free or low-cost online tools and not for larger, more costly tools that require more rigorous data privacy vetting.
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