 that you are here today to learn more about how hypothesis works in Blackboard. Here's our agenda for the day. We're going to kind of discuss the why behind social annotation along with, you know, what hypothesis is all about. And then I'm going to do a demonstration of how to enable a piece of text in Blackboard. And we'll round out the session today, hopefully feeling most of your questions in the chat. Please feel free to ask those questions as we go. That's why my colleagues are here to help out. But again, we're a pretty small group. So I have a feeling we won't have a very busy discussion thread in the chat. So introductions. Karleen and Rigoberto, I think. If you would like to, if you could please in the chat function, if you can drop down to everyone and sort of share a little bit about yourself. I obviously know your names, but maybe attach it with a school, your department or discipline and then what your experience level is with hypothesis. All right. So, Chrissy, you tell me, I mean, I'm going to let you talk as much as possible in this session because I want you to get to know our folks here today. But you let me know at any moment if you would like to pivot and share a little bit. Okay, perfect. Of course. Let's talk a little bit about the why and a little bit about the how. What does it look like to annotate with hypothesis? Well, Rigoberto is gone. Okay. Well, first off, let's set some set some purpose here. Hypothesis is what it does is it makes reading active, visible and social. I love these quotes. The first one sort of getting students to engage at a deeper level, critically think through pieces of text in your course. Seeing the pleasures and profits, which I love about that quote of careful reading and social annotation and then of course, taking a process that unfortunately is mostly invisible. I used to always say, as a teacher, it was hard to know what was going on in my students minds. When they were reading in my class, I didn't sometimes wouldn't want to, but no, it was in their minds, but I did want insight into thoughts I wanted a window to their in understandings and misunderstandings so so I could intervene. And then finally, it obviously makes reading much more social, especially when you're dealing with an alternate format and face to face, if it's a hybrid high flex situation, or, you know, really empowering students that may be a little more shy to engage verbally or in a in a face to face format, it brings community, it builds connections. So, for sure, hypothesis accomplishes a lot when it comes to your courses. Now, I'm going to pivot for a second because I'm going to kind of show you what hypothesis looks like in a setting. So I'm going to open up an article here and actually show you what this is looks like. Let's take a second to open up, but this is the sidebar that opens on the side of any reading that's enabled with hypothesis. We'll get into more details later about the grading panel and some other things and then of course I am going to show you how to enable a hypothesis reading but I want to show you what it looks like first. The idea is I've already actually anchored some annotations on the side. I used a few different formats multimedia to sort of liven up the margin. And I definitely encourage you to try the same with your students. But the basic function functionality behind it is that once you are in a hypothesis enabled reading, you highlight piece of selectable text, you click to annotate, and then you write your annotation. In this case, I used to teach high school. I know that's a very deep thought but it shows you the functionality pretty well. Once I've shared my annotation on the side, I want to make sure that I click this to post it to hypothesis and then I am done. The good news is that I can always go back and I can edit my annotations. I can delete my annotation. If I don't know don't think it really promotes discourse, or anybody in the course can actually reply to me with this little bent arrow on the side. And so that's where the social annotation aspect comes to be. I can add images, any publicly available images and even video into my annotations, along with if you notice step here I can also use emojis. Another thing that I always point out is that you can tag your thoughts in your annotations so you can share and sort of classify what type of annotation it might be. If it's a question you might be asking if it's an image you might be sharing you could tag it as an image but it just makes it a little easier to maybe do live searching for keywords and things of that sort so we do have a tagging function in there as well. As far as some other aspects that are cool to look at and understand, we have the ability to eliminate highlights if that is sometimes too distracting, both for your students and for you. You can always turn them on or off but the annotation is always anchored. We have this thing called page notes which is an interesting function allows you the only difference between a page note and an annotation is that the page note is not tethered to a piece of text. So it's great for if you want students to look at a piece in its entirety and really share like a summary, an opinion, anything like that so another great thing that you can use hypothesis for is to engage them in some, you know some higher levels of thinking. Up here at the top we've got, as I already showed you before, the magnifying finds a way to search tags and search names and things of that sort. We do have a question mark if you ever need to navigate to our knowledge base to find answers, or you know we hope you won't have to but if you need to create a support ticket because you're having a technical issue, but that is found there under the question mark. And then here we have something where you this thing called the notebook, which if I open here allows me to see annotations across assignments and not necessarily connected with the with the reading on the left side. This is great for grading purposes. I like to promote that. Not to mention for students to come back and see all of their learning throughout the entirety of a course. So with that said, I think I've kind of shown you most of the navigation of course here is the grading toolbar that allows you to kind of navigate to each individual students and what it will do is it'll pull up just their annotations. When you are doing those grades and set fairly self explanatory so with that said, kind of shown you what it looks like. So here are some active links and I know one of my colleagues has posted the slide deck here so I would definitely help tell you to navigate back to slide seven. If you're interested in any of these resources. I particularly like the ones here at the bottom that that show you use cases across different disciplines that might be helpful. Okay. So in blackboard. One of the things I do like to point out here is that students do not need to make an account on hypothesis in order to engage with hypothesis reading so you know if you're if you're if you're curious about what one of the main perks of hypothesis and blackboard is this is definitely one of them. And then I already kind of showed you what that annotation. Blackboard grading bar at the top looks like but this this slide will kind of show you what that that's all about. And we also integrate with blackboard group sets for small group work and I won't be enabling small groups in our session today when I when I do my demo, but I will be actually showing you where you can select to create a group assignment but this is great for if you've got particularly big courses. And you're looking to kind of minimize the risk for students to feel more free about sharing their thoughts and ideas in the margins. You know, not to mention, if you kind of want to focus the thinking or the tasks based on the different groups that's another great use case to. As far as what we support, we obviously support adding URLs web pages that's what you saw in my last in my last viewer demonstration, but we also support publicly available PDFs from like one drive or Google Drive, or perhaps your blackboard files if that is integrated at your location. And then we also support we are, as well as we're also piloting with J store and vital source so I don't know if we're all still I think we've got at least one more person that joins that joined us Matthew I believe I actually work with you but you are fine. I am your customer success manager but Carlene and Roberto are going to obviously want to tag Christie. If they have some questions around those two integrations as well. What can you put in there I kind of showed you live what that looks like, but I do want to point out that we also have an equation builder. If you are a STEM course instructor you can add equations in the margin. We talked about those tags, but lots of great options like I said to kind of make the margin come alive. Important to know that PDFs have to be OCR and accessible in order to enable them on hypothesis and what that basically means is text has to be selectable. So if you're like I don't know if this old scanned image I have that's a PDF I don't know if that's going to work. I would say open it up, see if you can select text if you can't. The cool news is that we have a free OCR and tool here connected on this slide 17 so this will give you a great pathway to take some of those old scanned PDFs and make sure that they are OCR and have that selectable text. Excuse me. This, this slide just kind of really goes through our resources it's even got a tutorial about what I'm going to show you in a few seconds, taking you through the pathway of enabling a blackboard hypothesis enabled reading. But there's also some knowledge based articles that you can refer back to if you forget any of our steps. And moving on. So, with that said, I think I'm going to take a moment and actually show you what it looks like to enable a text in blackboard using hypothesis. So, if you'll notice I'm back here at my original screen. And what I want to do is I want to click content. This is our course here that I'm going to demonstrate. So if I click content. Now I get this option to build said content. All right, so I want to click this drop down. And in your blackboard instance, you should see the option here of adding hypothesis. Okay. So I think I'm going to just try this one here. And there we go. All right, and so now I get a screen where I can pull in a title of an article I've actually already pulled one up here on the side so I'm going to drop that in real quick. The name of said article. And grab that super quick. And put it in here. And I've also, as you can imagine, enable a lot of hypothesis articles so I've got a few sets of directions that I keep open on a note on my desktop so I'm going to grab one of those copy and put that here in my description. Oops, sorry. That is not the way it's supposed to work. There we go. So now I've got that in there. Pretty simple instructions. We'll talk later about how you can mix up those instructions a little bit to promote different types of engagement but this is very basic directions that I've enabled here. Obviously I want to enable evaluation that's really important if I want to see that grading toolbar at the top of my hypothesis reading so I want to make sure I click that. And this is important to know you can create it for as many points as you would like and that's how it will show up in the grade book, but in the toolbar at the top of the reading it will only go up to 10. And so that will whatever you input into the 10, zero out of 10 will translate if it's a higher amount of points so let's say you wanted to give a student an 80 out of 100 you would give them an eight in that top toolbar. So, and so on and so forth so hopefully all that makes sense for our purposes I'm going to keep it simple and make this a 10 point assignment, since I know that's the default in that top toolbar. I'm not going to worry about the due dates and things of that sort but once I'm done I'm going to click submit. Right. And so now it's showing here, but it hasn't been connected yet with hypothesis so I've got to click on that. And now is where the magic happens. And so obviously I've got lots of different pathways you might not have quite as many but I'm going to use this one here, which is to enter a URL. But you guys, primarily will probably have at least one drive and Google Drive as alternate options you might depending on your institution also have the integration with Blackboard files. So I'm going to click that. And now I've got this article so open now is when I grab that URL. I'm going to copy that paste it. And then hit submit. Now here is where I wanted to show you what I was talking about earlier. If I wanted to make this a small group assignment this would be where I would do that so I would click this option. If I've already got groups set up in my Blackboard instance, or in the course I can actually pick those and assign them as necessary but today I'm not doing that so I'm just going to click to continue. And now just like in that article I showed you before. So in this selection, I've actually already done a little bit of annotation in here, which is cool. But that is what it looks like and of course now I can drop down to whatever students are in the course and I can assign them their grade out of 10 up here using the toolbar. All right. Do we have any questions I know I've done a lot of talking at you for quite a bit here so I want to make sure I stop. And get an idea of questions that might be in the room. Good. All right, well now is where I kind of pivot to talking a little bit more about the pedagogy the instructional ways that you can use hypothesis. And obviously you can use hypothesis in your face to face classes using annotations as a springboard sort of to seed discussion. You know, I've had tons of instructors that like to open their face to face time with an annotation summary activity so they've done some pre reading outside of class coming to class prepared with those annotations and ready to use them and talk about them. Or they can be in those fully online courses hybrid or high flex where it would potentially replace your discussion board. Or, you know, I was that kind of a student in college myself especially undergrad, where you know I might have been reluctant to speak a lot. Both in an online and face to face situation I was just a shy student in general. And so annotation would have given me a voice and made me feel connected to the larger group which I think is super important. One of the things I wanted I told you before I was going to share some alternate ideas of instructions that you could include with your assignments. And I think this slide is a great one to come back to, because this is actually got a link to what we call annotation starter assignments and so if you're looking for a low risk low stakes way to sort of introduce hypothesis in your courses. And have copy and pasteable directions that are already provided then these are this these are great resource for you so I definitely encourage you to come back, you don't come back to anything else try these ones out. Because we've had a lot of great feedback on them in fact, we're honored to be in the presence of the person that created most of these and that's Christie. So for those of you who work with her. She knows more about these starter assignments than anyone. So you could definitely follow up with her about those if you'd like. But like, starting off of course with annotating your syllabus that's one of the assignments. You can also use stem texts, how to use group roles to really focus the thinking and the task so it's not just general annotations that sometimes don't get really in depth. And this just kind of highlights that you are one of many institutions across the world that are partnering with hypothesis. If you would like to make a meeting with your customer success manager who's most likely in this call even mere Christie. We have a way for you to make make a meeting. If you don't already have that link. But we do offer that pedagogical support. We have a link here to view our liquid margins. Call it is it a vodcast I think, but the good margins which has tons of episodes. Speaking with inner and interviewing instructors across the world about how they use hypothesis so you'll you could glean some great ideas there. We have this cool hypothesis educator forum that you can join and be a live participant to ask questions and get ideas from fellow educators. And then of course if you have any technical support issues, you can always reach out directly to our support team. We also have more partner workshops so you're obviously in the one today activating annotation in blackboard in your LMS. We also have several topical workshops coming up. And if you click this link in the slide 26 you can see what those are, get the direct link to register for them today. At least we thank you for attending and sincerely from our entire customer success team. This is contact so that if you don't know if by chance, who to reach out to after today or maybe just forget you can always reach out here too. And we will follow up, and we'll go to the right person. That said, do we have any other questions.