After the Coursespaces and the Brightspace, I came into contact with a brand new online learning tool for me, which is the tool called Hypothes. The first impression of this tool reminds me of the application called OneNote on my old laptop (a surface book), that application can easily manage and classify notes and make notes and definitions on notes at any time. But the Hypothes implements the goal that more than one person can take notes of files online in different time periods, let the students in the same class see each other’s comments, this function is similar to Google Docs. In addition, it can also be used as a browser plug-in, which allows it to work and annotate on more platforms.

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However, after a period of contact, I also found some potential weaknesses of Hypothes. For example, sometimes it affects the layout and the format of the platform. Besides, I asked my cousin who also used this application before, he told me that once he cleaned up the cookies in his browser in order to clean up his computer, after that, the Hypothes needed to be log in again frequently, which is troublesome. Finally, I don’t know if the Hypothes has the note backup function, if not, if the webpage people took notes on is out of date or deleted, the notes might also be disappeared, which is an obvious drawback. I hope they can be improved in the future.