Feature: Top Hat Pages

Personalize learning. Extend engagement.Improve outcomes.

Top Hat Pages expands your ability to engage students well beyond the classroom. With Pages, you can add personalized learning to your course with interactive multimedia, real-time events, historical milestones, and articles that better resonate with your students. Plus, you now have the option to quickly generate AI-powered questions to save time with course prep.

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Ace brings AI super powers to course prep in Pages

Ace, Top Hat’s AI-powered assistant, makes it easy to integrate asynchronous engagement into any course by quickly adding low-stakes assessments
With one click, Ace generates questions, hints, and explanations, giving students more opportunities for practice and immediate feedback
The content generated by Ace can be added directly to the material or edited, saving you time while still providing full control over your course

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Personalize learning to pique every student's interests

From Top Hat Interactive eTexts to OpenStax, we have hundreds of textbooks ready to adopt, with the option to edit for your course
Assign different question types to let students demonstrate their learning
Add in relevant, local examples, case studies, videos, and images that reflect your students’ lives and interests
Whether you’re customizing a textbook, updating OER or building simple assignments, keep content current by adding relevant articles and multimedia from today’s headlines directly into your course

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AI- and peer-to-peer-powered study support

Ace, our AI-powered assistant, lets you unlock the power of personal study support for every student—they ask questions about what they’re learning, and Ace provides a response built from the course material
With Class Threads, a conversation can start anywhere alongside your assigned course material, letting students ask questions, connect, and learn from each other asynchronously
Both of these innovative tools take what students are already talking and thinking about and puts help directly into their course

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Relevant questions spur timely discussions

Pages is more than a content editor—choose from 14 questions types to liven up lectures, readings, and assignments, while immersing your students in interactive content that invites them to interact with each other
Adding in varying questions lets students demonstrate their learning in different ways
Using Ace as a question generator, you can save valuable prep time by generating content from our AI-powered assistant in seconds

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Tools for teaching, learning, and engaging.

Pages is 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.

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“Top Hat Pages makes it so easy for me to add things that happened two weeks ago, or two days ago. I’m able to pop in a link or a video I want them to see, which means everyone’s read the same thing and is up to date.”

Holloway Sparks

Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Georgia State University

“Using Top Hat Pages, I’m able to integrate Desmos and graphing software into my book. It’s become an interactive experience that students can play with.”

Blake Regan

Associate Professor of Mathematics, Ohio University

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Frequently Asked Questions

Top Hat Pages is more than a content editor. With Pages, you can incorporate visual and interactive elements such as images, videos, Top Hat questions, and other personalized content to increase engagement and student comprehension. Pages also lets you use Ace, our AI-powered assistant, as a question generator to handle much of the work for you.

Top Hat Pages is for educators that want more than a content editor, they want full control of their course materials. Pages gives educators the freedom to personalize learning and their course content as much or as little as they want. This could include adding more interactive content, low-stakes frequent assessments, current events as well as editing Top Hat Interactive eTexts to better represent their students. Top Hat Pages makes it easy to add personalized content and customized content to any course.

Research has consistently shown that frequent low-stakes assessments can improve students’ retention and understanding across many disciplines. Assessments are commonly used as tools to measure learning, but they can also be used to enhance it—instructors can have students activate recall while they learn in class or read a text, rather than only during high-stakes assessments. This approach enables retrieval practice, a strategy to strengthen memory by recalling information. As a dynamic courseware platform for active learning, Top Hat makes it easy for educators to incorporate frequent low-stakes assessments in and outside of class. You can learn more about the research behind Top Hat here.

The difference comes down to context. When you ask a question in Chat GPT, the relevance of the response you get depends on the quality of your prompt and the context provided in your question. Because Ace operates alongside course materials and has contextual knowledge of what is being studied, it can address student questions with relevant responses that are based on the specific course contents.