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Top Hat’s active learning app helps professors engage and motivate students in online, blended and face-to-face courses.
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Top Hat is the perfect partner for your LMS. Top Hat’s student-centric experience engages and motivates learners with captivating virtual classroom features, interactive course content and built-in assessment capabilities.
Top Hat syncs seamlessly with your LMS to ensure the right information flows into the administrative features you rely on to capture and report on student data.
Engaging Classes
Live-stream lectures remotely, without relying on Zoom
Keep students engaged with virtual classroom capabilities, all in one place.
- Stream lectures in real time with built-in video conferencing tools
- Record class meetings and embed videos directly in Top Hat for self-paced learning
- Take attendance and present and edit slides
- Create polls, quizzes and synchronous discussions to encourage student comprehension and participation
Interactive Readings
Replace or augment your traditional textbook with interactive course materials
Offer immersive content that facilitates student understanding outside of the classroom.
- Guide student learning step-by-step with reading materials, interactive media and assessment questions, all in one place
- Adopt, or supplement your existing materials with, “assess-as-you-go” content from Top Hat or partners like Bluedoor Publishing and Fountainhead Press
- Record your lectures and easily include them in students’ learning materials
- Edit and customize content to suit your course needs
Built-In Assessments
Monitor student progress with robust and frequent assessments
Assess student mastery using 14 different question types and speed up marking with auto-grading capabilities.
- Create homework assignments and in-class activities using multiple-choice, numeric, fill-in-the-blank, matching questions and more
- Include subjective questions you can grade yourself
- Provide contextualized, in-line feedback and grades on uploaded student assignments
Remote Tests
Prevent student cheating with secure remote tests
Administer secure, proctored tests students can take on their own computers, at a pre-set time and from any location.
- Easily run summative tests with set start and end times
- Maintain academic integrity by verifying test-taker identities
- Monitor student activity and receive proctor reports that flag irregular student behavior
- Instantly analyze student performance with questions that are auto-graded upon submission
Actionable Insights
Leverage data-driven insights to keep students on track
Easily gauge how students are doing and identify difficult topics that need reinforcement.
- Track student attendance, grades and participation levels in one comprehensive gradebook
- View at-a-glance reports that identify which students are struggling and which are doing well
- Facilitate discussions with students—during lecture and afterwards—to keep tabs on their learning
- Analyze gradebook data and surface the insights that are most important to you
Easy to Use From Day One
Get tailored advice and assistance from our team of instructional designers on all or part of your online course
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Join More Than 750 Universities Creating Engaging Virtual Classrooms
“I look at students’ responses literally minutes before the lecture to gauge their level of understanding.”
Frank SporsAssociate Professor, College of Optometry
Western University of Health Sciences
“Top Hat gave me the opportunity to bring together my quizzes, videos, PowerPoints and discussion questions all in one place.”
Brooke ArchilaAssociate Professor, English
Madisonville Community College
“When I realized I could customize the textbook to make it more specific to my classroom, I was able to make the textbook an extension of my lecture.”
Ricardo NogueiraSenior Lecturer, Department of Geosciences
Georgia State University
