Social Annotation Tools
Social annotation tools allow for conversation and collaboration in the margins of any online or digital content, including text, images, musical scores and video. This gives students who are absent, in different locations, or less comfortable speaking publicly in class a chance to contribute and engage.
New School faculty can use hypothes.is and Perusall in Canvas to annotate any text (including pdfs, web pages and video) to promote deeper reading, learning, collaboration and discussion.
Hypothesis
What is Hypothesis?
Hypothesis is a social annotation tool that provides faculty and students with the opportunity to participate in social reading and engage in collaborative annotation anywhere on the web.
How to configure Hypothesis within your Canvas course
Hypothesis is accessible via the assignments section in your Canvas course.
- All enrolled students will be granted access to the tool, meaning they do not need to create their own accounts
Using Hypothesis as a collaborative learning tool
- Learn how to use Hypothesis with your assignments
- Review examples of how faculty use Hypothesis with students, explore sample assignments, or read about creative ways to annotate with students
- For more guidance and examples, visit the Hypothesis Teacher Resource Guide
Additional resources
- Hypothesis video tutorials
- Hypothesis Teaching Resource, Washington University in St. Louis
Need support? Submit a ticket to the Hypothesis help team.
Perusall
What is Perusall?
Perusall is a collaborative social annotation tool that allows instructors to upload documents for students to read, discuss and mark-up collectively outside of the classroom. This tutorial provides an introduction (8 min).
How to configure Perusall within your Canvas course
To activate Perusall within Canvas, go to Course Settings and click Navigation. Then drag Perusall from deactivated tabs up to activated tabs and save settings.
Using Perusall as a collaborative learning tool
- Get started making assignments in Perusall
- View assignment ideas and examples
- Learn how to upload videos and content to Perusall
- For more guidance, search Perusall’s Knowledge Base for Instructors
Additional resources
- Perusal 101 webinar (1 hour)
Need support? Contact Perusall Support.