Feature: Polls & Quizzes
Quiz and poll your way to instant insights
Live quizzes and classroom polls are one of the best ways to get a read on how your students are progressing. You can use them to highlight concepts in different, interactive ways and encourage student collaboration—but with Top Hat, they also create real-time insights that instantly let you know how your class is doing.
87%
of students said Top Hat helped them stay focused during lectures1
81%
of students said Top Hat helped to increase understanding of course material2
2 Executed customer proof points survey to 1632 instructors who currently use Top Hat (April 2017)
See your students lean into learning.
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Create media-rich, interactive polls and quizzes to help students apply knowledge in a variety of engaging ways
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Choose from 14 question types, including matching, word answer, and click-on-target, that students can respond to on any device
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Save time with our quizzing software’s autograding functionality and give students results instantly
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Easily integrate frequent low-stakes assessments into your course with classroom polls, so students can practice and apply knowledge without added pressure
Really valuable insights delivered in real-time.
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Every classroom poll and quiz gives you immediate insights to address learning challenges on the fly
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View performance at a class or individual level to understand where students are struggling
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Get a weekly summary highlighting your highest and lowest performers—and where they are having trouble making connections
Actionable data for evolving teaching.
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Every interaction in Top Hat leads to actionable data you can use to help students and personalize your teaching
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Capture results from graded discussions in the Top Hat gradebook, along with quizzes, polls, and tests
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See how your students are responding to material in class and out, so you know who needs extra support
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Easily integrate with LMS platforms like Blackboard, Canvas, D2L, Moodle, and Sakai
Tools for teaching, learning, and engaging.
Quizzes and polls are just two of the many ways Top Hat enables professors to teach with engaging content, tools and activities in online, hybrid or face-to-face classrooms.
Frequently Asked Questions
The main advantage of Top Hat is that our platform fosters student engagement beyond the classroom—our response system doesn’t end with lectures. Top Hat also offers 14 different question types and straightforward pricing to improve affordability for students. See a more detailed comparison here.
In addition to offering flexible monitoring options within exams, Top Hat helps preserve academic integrity by making it easier for educators to implement frequent low-stakes assessment and other equitable strategies that drive insights while reducing the impulse for students to cheat.
Instructors have the option to pose anonymous questions to their class. They are a great tool for the collection of sensitive, polarizing, or personal feedback from a class with privacy, accuracy, and honesty. When an anonymous question is selected, you will not be able to see what individuals answer. Only aggregated results will be available from our polling software when an anonymous question is used, meaning it cannot be graded as students’ identities are hidden. Read more about anonymous questions in this Support Center article.
Students can answer interactive polls and all other question types in Top Hat through our platform on a computer or tablet, or by using our app on their mobile device. Students don’t have to be physically in the classroom, they can answer questions remotely during class provided they have joined the appropriate course.
Yes, Top Hat has autograde functionality across a variety of question types and assessment options. Depending on the assignment, Top Hat has automatic grading capabilities. Student responses to Top Hat discussions can be graded for correctness and/or participation.
Why educators and students love Top Hat.
“I use Top Hat to assign online homework and create in-class interactive activities. Overall, Top Hat lowered the DFW rates and improved student performance in my course.”
Sherif Moussa
Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University
“Top Hat makes me feel more confident that what I am teaching is working well. It definitely keeps students engaged; they are less likely to wander away from the lecture.”
Curtis Izen
Professor, Baruch College
“The entire platform was extremely user friendly; I wish that my entire university used this platform rather than just this one teacher.”
Jay Hyssong
Student, University of Southern Maine
