Hypothesis is designed to work everywhere, without the implementation of any software. Using sentence-level annotation, anyone with an account can add their own public or private notes or critiques “on top of news, blogs, scientific articles, books, terms of service, ballot initiatives, legislation and more. ”

This type of open annotation has numerous applications in education, journalism, research, and publishing.  Currently to use Hypothesis you need to install an extension (if using Chrome) or a Hypothesis “bookmarklet” for other browsers.

The Hypothesis WordPress plugin makes it even easier to use Hypothesis when using the Commons for teaching.  Students only need to create a Hypothesis account and perhaps join the private group you set up for your class.  No need for extensions or bookmarklets.  And you as the admin of the site determine which pages and posts can be annotated.

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All annotations and highlights are done on the front end.  Use your mouse to select the phase (or sentence, or paragraph) and you can select either the highlight or annotate icons that popup.  You can choose your public account or one of the groups that you belong to.  Annotations can include images and links to other resources (both within your site or to any web url). You can aggregate annotations via tags, share via social networks or email.

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The Hypothesis sidebar has been enabled to show by default, to hide it, click anywhere on the webpage. Login to your account to save your annotations.

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