Top Hat is the Hayden-McNeil
alternative that puts you in
the driver’s seat of digital, print, and virtual labs.

With Top Hat’s dynamic courseware, educators can create affordable digital, print, and hybrid lab manuals that can be personalized using the largest image library on the market.

What sets Top Hat apart:

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Content Variety
Lab coordinators can leverage content to complete their custom lab manual. The process of creating customized lab manuals can be complex and time-consuming, potentially requiring significant lead time.
Build your perfect manual by picking and choosing content from a robust database of labs including the #1 selling lab manual on the market.
Image Selection
Provides in-house designers to help select images.
We have in-house Custom Solutions services to help AND offer the largest library of images on the market, organized in an easy-to-use cloud database so you can pick what works best for your students.
Interactivity
Focuses on delivering custom print solutions. There is a lack of digital resources to support student learning in and out of the lab.
Along with custom print solutions, Top Hat delivers a dynamic digital and virtual lab experience to make learning active and engaging for students—before and after the lab.
Labs & Lectures
Offers solutions for labs, but not lectures.
Top Hat's dynamic courseware has content and tools for both the lab and the lecture, so educators can rely on one tool for their course.

Content Variety

Build your perfect manual by picking and choosing content from a robust database of labs including the #1 selling lab manual on the market.

Lab coordinators can leverage content to complete their custom lab manual. The process of creating customized lab manuals can be complex and time-consuming, potentially requiring significant lead time.

Image Selection

We have in-house Custom Solutions services to help AND offer the largest library of images on the market, organized in an easy-to-use cloud database so you can pick what works best for your students.

Provides in-house designers to help select images.

Interactivity

Along with custom print solutions, Top Hat delivers a dynamic digital and virtual lab experience to make learning active and engaging for students—before and after the lab.

Focuses on delivering custom print solutions. There is a lack of digital resources to support student learning in and out of the lab.

Labs & Lectures

Top Hat's dynamic courseware has content and tools for both the lab and the lecture, so educators can rely on one tool for their course.

Offers solutions for labs, but not lectures.

Make your lab manuals
your students' favorite tool.

Make your lab manuals
your students' favorite tool.

600+

custom assignments can easily be incorporated into our dynamic lab manuals.

*Educator Story

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Students get your
lab manual for life.

Learning doesn’t have to end when the course does. With Top Hat, students pay once to access a lab manual for life.

Students rate our mobile app 4.5 out of 5 stars

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"I much preferred Top Hat to any lab manual. The ability to have my data, instructions, and answers in the same place and being able to flip through them without concerns of cross contaminating with a notebook, especially as we used lab iPads."

-Student from University of Connecticut

Make labs look sharper than ever.

Our extensive library of high-quality scientific images lets you create a lab manual that is as accurate as it is engaging.

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Bring your lab to life.

On top of images, we offer a database of national and custom labs you choose from to create the manual you’ve always wanted for your students.

Why students love Top Hat labs

“I liked that the questions helped me prepare for the challenging questions for my course exams. The question stems helped test my recall on the details of microbiology.”

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-Student from Midwestern University

“Labs are easier to complete and do not require me having to recopy the entire thing.”

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-Student from University of California, Riverside

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