Top Hat Classroom

Leverage students’ devices to take attendance, launch discussions and questions, and get real-time feedback

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Motivate every student to participate

Create an engaged learning environment where every student, from the front to the back row, can participate and have a voice

Easily embed a Top Hat Classroom discussion prompt between your slides to spark a dialogue, check for understanding or award participation points
Allow students to participate anonymously so that they feel comfortable sharing thoughts, no matter the subject matter
Students can use interactive features to vote responses up in a queue, helping you identify common viewpoints or misconceptions
Flexible response options, including the ability to respond with a drawing

Reward students for attending class

Using Top Hat Classroom allows instructors to automatically verify whether a student is physically present in class and auto-assign grades for attendance and participation

Easily take attendance by prompting students to sign in on their devices using a unique code
Top Hat Classroom uses proprietary technology to verify the physical location of students, ensuring that only those students attending get counted
Excused absence options built-in to provide flexibility

Create a synchronous experience between instructor and student

Interactive teaching and learning come together in a synchronous experience with Top Hat Classroom

Instructors can sync their lecture slides with students’ devices so they can follow along in real-time
Students are unable to move ahead of the instructor, so their attention remains focused on what’s being presented
Share student responses and correct answers to questions posed in class using visual graphs, word clouds and heat maps
Once your lecture is complete, you can assign slides in review mode, allowing students to download and study at any time

Your interactive course in one place

Manage all lecture materials and interactive questions online

Upload your slides and animations directly into Top Hat Classroom and organize as needed
Embed interactive polling questions between your slides to create one seamless presentation aligned to your lecture plan
Choose from various interactive question types: multiple choice, word answer, numeric answer, fill-in-the-blank, matching, click-on-target, sorting and more
Streamline lecture prep by importing free interactive questions from the Top Hat Marketplace

Instantly grade and assess student performance

Track student performance and automatically assign grading weight to interactive questions, attendance and participation, all uploaded directly into the Top Hat gradebook

All responses and participation grades are captured instantly in the Top Hat gradebook for students to access any time
Grades can be exported easily to your LMS
Analyze auto-graded results to gauge comprehension and identify concepts to review or reinforce