Figure: Example of a Hypothes.is activity

Hypothesis is a social annotation tool. It allows for sentence-level note taking or critique on top of classroom reading, news, blogs, scientific articles, books, terms of service, ballot initiatives, legislation, and more. In Canvas, it is available as an external tool link as a module item or through an External Tool Assignment, but will not appear in the Course Navigation menu of a Canvas course.

Find answers to frequent questions about Hypothesis at Hypothesis FAQs.

Following are links to documentation from the vendor on using Hypothesis with Canvas.

For graded activities, set up a Hypothesis activity through a Canvas External Tool Assignment.

For ungraded activities, set up a Hypothesis activity directly in a Canvas Module.

PDF files used with Hypothesis must be in OCR (Optical Character Resolution) format to work properly. See Using Ally to Turn Scanned PDFs into OCRed PDFs for information on converting PDFs.

PDFs added to Canvas for use in Hypothes.is must be published. Unpublished files will deliver an error when a student tries to open it to annotate.

We recommend caution linking to Google Drive files, as students living abroad have reported access issues.