Feature: Top Hat Lab Solutions

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Feature: Top Hat Lab Solutions

You teach the lab,you choose the manual.

It’s your lab, so teach it your way. With Top Hat’s market-leading lab solutions, choose one of our media-rich Interactive eTexts, hybrid solutions with a print lab component, or standalone print options through your institution’s bookstore—all delivering consistent and affordable learning. Our solutions make it easy to create or customize a lab manual to suit your teaching style, and deliver a richer pre- and post-lab experience.

95%

of students agree that Top Hat is easy to use

87%

of students say Top Hat helps them feel engaged in the learning process1

12024 Top Hat student survey (n= 21,023)
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Hybrid lab solutions that blend the best of digital and print.

Pre-Lab

Top Hat with Interactive eText

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    Top Hat with Interactive eText

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    Make complex concepts digestible with dynamic questions, interactive diagrams, animations, and video demonstrations

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    Edit text, embed videos, and add or create supplemental resources to keep your lab manual up-to-date

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    Incorporate pre-lab assessments to get immediate insights into comprehension and make the most of your time with students

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In-Lab

Top Hat Pages

Use our platform to walk students through material during lab time

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PDF*

Students can print a PDF file to use in the lab

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Post-Lab

Top Hat with Interactive eText.

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    Dynamic questions, interactive diagrams, animations, and video demonstrations

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    Incorporate and customize your post-lab materials for student reflections while gathering data and insights from their performance

Dynamic questions, interactive diagrams, animations, and video demonstrations

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Incorporate and customize your post-lab materials for student reflections while gathering data and insights from their performance

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In-Lab Exercises

Print Options Available*

Looseleaf editions, available from your institution's bookstore

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*Title-dependent: print options include in-lab or full manual for select titles

Managing multiple labs made easy.

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    Manage classes and graduate assistants through one platform to ensure a consistent experience for everyone

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    Reduce admin time with auto-graded questions and automatically compile results in the Top Hat gradebook or your Learning Management System

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    Easily view grades and participation data at a student, class or program level

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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

Why educators and students love Top Hat.

Tools for teaching, learning, and engaging.

Interactive Labs are just one of the many ways Top Hat enables professors to teach with engaging content, tools and activities in online, hybrid or face-to-face classrooms.

Affordable, purpose-built print lab solutions.

To meet the needs of all users, we still provide a number of print resources to enrich the student learning experience. Your institution’s bookstore can easily order print textbooks here.

Frequently Asked Questions