1. Fill in the Blank Questions for Assignments and in Class

    Auto-graded fill in the blank questions are hard to fit to the needs of students. Here's how to create them on Top Hat and allow room for flexible answers

  2. How To Assign Students Randomly Generated Questions With Top Hat

    Enforcing academic integrity can be a challenge when it comes to setting assignment or test questions. One way Top Hat can help is through randomly generated questions, where you can assign a numerical range or a set of phrases to choose from—and have them automatically graded. There are two question types, which can be accessed […]

  3. Tools That Make Modern College Class Attendance Taking Easy

    Student demographics are changing from the days when college class attendance taking was common and attendance was fully mandatory in every course. More and more people take classes part-time and balance their studies with family and jobs. While attendance remains important to many, online textbooks, video conferencing and other tools can allow for learning to […]

  4. Asking Visual Lecture Questions Using Click on Target

    Visual learners make up 65 percent of the student population, according to the Social Science Research Network. So it only makes sense that if you’re teaching using slides, diagrams and charts, you should test knowledge in class by asking lecture questions in the same medium. Top Hat’s “click on target” question format shows students an […]

  5. Class Discussion: 3 Creative Uses of Top Hat

    In-class discussion forums sound good in theory, but in practice, they’re too often abandoned within your LMS as soon as the first thread is posted. With discussions in Top Hat Classroom, you can say goodbye to zero participation, and realize the potential of class discussion as an active, mobile in-class participation tool. Discussions have all […]