Custom Solutions

The search for the perfect textbook ends here

Ever feel like the perfect textbook doesn’t exist? With Top Hat Custom Solutions, our experienced team helps you build the exact textbook you need. Our instructional design and project management expertise makes for a smooth process to create interactive course materials that meet your affordability goals and timeline.

Educator-approved quality.
Student-friendly pricing.

With Custom Solutions, our digital textbooks and lab manual options (including digital, print, and hybrid) let educators provide the quality content they want at the affordable price students need
On every project, we partner with educators to meet their quality standards and desired price range to reach affordability goals
Offering more affordable course materials means all students can succeed
Build the exact textbook you need, whether it’s by creating original material, customizing existing content, personalizing OER, or mixing and matching

Keep your content current and personalized

Create your own textbook or customize an existing title. With Top Hat Pages, you can update content on the fly, as often as you like, with intuitive editing tools
Create different question types yourself or use Ace, our AI-powered assistant, to help generate them for you
Add in relevant, local examples, case studies, videos, and images that reflect your students’ lives and interests
Keep content current by adding relevant articles and multimedia from today’s headlines directly into your course

Hybrid lab solutions that blend the best of digital and print

Our market-leading lab manual solutions include media-rich Interactive eTexts, hybrid options with in-lab print components, or standalone print options
Enjoy the flexibility of creating or customizing a lab manual to suit your students, and deliver a richer pre- and post-lab experience
When chemicals, specimens, or equipment change, you can use Top Hat Pages to update your digital manual instantly

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The support you want,
when you need it

The support
you want,
when you need it

Our dedicated Custom Solutions team provides project management and instructional design expertise for every project
Support is tailored to your needs—we’ll help as much or as little as you like

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See why educators love Top Hat Custom Solutions

“(The project manager) was fantastic to work with—he answered my questions, provided a video to help with Shutterstock, and was generally enjoyable to work with. I was impressed with his encouraging style and his professionalism.”

Christine Floether

“(The project manager) would allow me to express how I wanted to build it and then she showed me the tools or product features that would meet that need. She allowed my needs as an educator to drive the development of the final product.”

David Osmond

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Frequently Asked Questions

Educator-approved quality.Student-friendly pricing.