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  1. How One Professor Keeps His Students Engaged When Teaching Online

    Learn how Top Hat user Frank Spors keeps his students engaged when teaching online. Read the article in Forbes newsletter to learn more. 

  2. How Can Teachers Use Technology To Close Achievement Gaps?

    Learn how Top Hat user Frank Spors uses technology to help close achievement gaps and increase participation. Read the article in Forbes newsletter to learn more. 

  3. Top Hat Launches New Communication Tool to Help Students, Professors Adapt to Virtual Education

    Toronto-based EdTech startup Top Hat has launched Top Hat Community, a new free communication tool that allows students and educators at high education institutions with digital spaces to easily communicate and collaborate. The Top Hat Community app is coming soon to the platform. Read the article in Betakit newsletter to learn more. 

  4. Top Hat Adds Communication and Community Tools

    Active learning courseware platform Top Hat has introduced Top Hat Community, an integrated communication tool that enables course announcements, real-time discussions, project collaborations, peer connections, community building and more, all in one centralized hub. Community is coming soon to the platform. Read the article in Campus Technology newsletter to learn more. 

  5. Mars Officially Launches Program Developed Using Federal Scale-up Platform Funding

    MaRS Discovery District has officially launched Momentum, a new program designed to support high-growth Canadian companies with the potential to reach $100 million in revenue in the next five years. Top Hat has been announced as one of the 53 companies in the program’s “portfolio.” Read the article in The MaRs newsletter to learn more. 

  6. Plexiglass Won’t Save Us

    Colleges have frittered the summer away on audacious and absurd reopening plans. It’s time to embrace remote learning instead. Read the article in The Chronicle of Higher Education to learn more.

  7. How One Toronto Technology Company is Powering the Future of Online Education

    Top Hat has moved quickly to accelerate the rollout of new products to meet increased interest for its offerings. Since the lockdown began in March, the company has introduced a remote proctoring tool to ensure secure exams in an online environment, a community chat function and soon a virtual classroom video-conferencing tool optimized for a […]

  8. Top Hat Named #3 on Bay Street Bull’s Sixth Annual Power 50 List

    Top Hat has been named #3 on Bay Street Bull’s POWER 50 list of change-makers and visionary Canadian companies. See the entire list here.

  9. How Teachers Can Build Communities In Online Classrooms

    Establishing a sense of community or belonging in the classroom is important to developing trust among students and with their instructors. Learn how Top Hat user Frank Spors establishes a sense of community in an online learning environment to foster student engagement and learning success.   Read the article in Forbes to learn more.

  10. How One Professor Keeps His Students Engaged When Teaching Online

    During this crisis, Top Hat user Frank Spors was able to raise student engagement in his class to a 100% participation rate and a big part of that was because he created opportunities for students to stay engaged with their learning before, during, and after class. Read the article in Apple News to learn more. 

  11. What One Teacher Has Learned During Their Transition to Online Teaching

    The most important takeaways from Top Hat user Frank Spors’ shift to online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Read the article in Apple News to learn more.

  12. Employers Partner Up To Open Doors for Black Tech Workers

    In an effort to increase diversity and promote inclusion with employers, a number of major Canadian organizations are partnering with the Black Professionals in Tech Network (BPTN) to open doors for Black tech workers including TD Bank, Bell Canada and Top Hat. Read the article in Canadian HR Reporter to learn more. 

  13. Black Professionals in Tech Network Partner With Canadian Companies To Support Black Tech Workers

    The Black Professionals in Tech Network (BPTN) has partnered with eight Canadian companies, including Top Hat, TD Bank, Bell Canada, and Rogers, pledging “to create a more reflective, supportive and transformational space for Black tech professionals in Canada.” Read the article in BetaKit to learn more.

  14. Criminal Justice Professor Passionate about Creating Interactive and Engaging Online Classes

    For Dan Maxwell’s students, their academic experience didn’t change much during the transition to remote learning, as he worked with them – and the company behind a leading remote-learning platform–to ensure their educational experience was as seamless as possible. Read the article in theUniversity of New Haven blog to learn more.

  15. 5 Options for Flexible and Empathetic Summative Assessments

    Here is some of the guidance Top Hat has been providing as instructors balance the need for student equity and access, while maintaining some semblance of business as usual during this time of dislocation. Read the article in eCampus News to learn more.

  16. Survival of the Unicorns: As the Economy Skidded, So Did Startups. Now They Need New Ideas, and Fast.

    Before the crisis, Toronto’s Tophatmonocle Corp. (Top Hat) had already made a name in the academic publishing business. Its app lets instructors administer tests, grade assignments and provide digital textbooks and other course materials to three million students at 750 North American universities and colleges, all through their smartphones. Read the article in the Globe […]

  17. Results from Top Hat’s COVID-19 Student Survey about Online Learning

    Top Hat is an ed tech company that both a) fosters active learning through software that goes beyond typical Learning Management System (LMS) functionality, and b) provides services related to helping faculty move their courses online. Kudos to TopHat for launching this effort! Read the article in Phil on Ed Tech to learn more.

  18. Top Hat Launches Free Virtual Classroom Capabilities to Help Educators Better Engage and Motivate Higher Ed Students

    We are introducing Top Hat Basic—available free of charge—to enable professors to host synchronous online classes that engage students and make them feel connected to their learning. Read the article in Education Dive to learn more.

  19. Top Hat Launches Free Version of Platform as Universities Move to Online Learning

    Top Hat is launching a free version of its platform in addition to several new virtual classroom capabilities, in order to support professors whose work is being disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Read the article on BetaKit to learn more.

  20. Three-Quarters of College Students Call Online Classes ‘Unengaging,’ Miss Campus Interactions

    In an April survey conducted by education technology vendor Top Hat, a quarter of college students said they’re undecided about whether or not to continue their education in the fall. Read the article in Campus Technology to learn more.