Feature: Dynamic eTexts

Interactive eTexts bring learning to life.

Simply making a textbook digital isn’t enough to capture the imagination of today’s students. Top Hat’s dynamic courseware with Interactive eTexts empower you to create learning experiences that are personalized, inclusive, and designed to prepare your students for their future.

91%

of instructors believe Top Hat drives positive student learning

81%

of students think their Interactive eText is worth the price

75%

of students say they’d like to use a Interactive eText again¹

¹ Source: Top Hat Student Survey: Tell us about your interactive text!

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Personalize an Interactive eText from our extensive catalog featuring titles across all major disciplines optimized for an active learning experience.

All titles are built to reflect and respond to today’s students experiences, and learning styles
Customize the content down to the individual words, photos, or videos that appear in the text
You decide which text updates to accept, so your content stays as current as you see fit—there’s no need to switch to a new edition
Our eTexts are designed based on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA and Section 508 standards

Make OER your own.

Teach with OER? Use Top Hat to keep the content up-to-date
Add multimedia, activities, and updates for an interactive learning experience
Adopt and personalize existing OpenStax content that has been optimized for our platform

Give your content the treatment it deserves.

With Top Hat, you can design a custom interactive eText as unique as your students
Intuitive content creation tools allow you to bring content to life by incorporating multimedia, auto-graded questions, polls, and discussions
Our dedicated team provides you with project management and 1:1 instructional design expertise to guide you through every step

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Choose from a robust catalog of dynamic digital textbooks and labs, to empower your delivery of personalized, inclusive and career-minded learning experiences.

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Actionable data for evolving teaching.

Every interaction in Top Hat leads to actionable data you can use to help students and personalize your teaching
Capture results from graded discussions in the Top Hat gradebook, along with quizzes, polls, and tests
See how your students are responding to material in class and out, so you know who needs extra support
Easily integrate with LMS platforms like Blackboard, Canvas, D2L, Moodle, and Sakai

Tools for teaching, learning, and engaging.

Textbooks 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.

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Frequently Asked Questions

If you are a student looking for a specific textbook, make sure you are in the Top Hat course that corresponds with that text. You can refer to the course title and unique 6-digit join code at the top of the course page to confirm you are in the right course. To find your textbook, navigate to the All Content or Assigned for Grades section of your course. All available textbook material including chapter readings and assignments will be listed here. You can then click into the folders to reveal their contents and then click the corresponding reading or assignment to bring it up on their devices. For more information, see this Support Center article.

Top Hat textbooks empower educators to create learning experiences that are personalized, inclusive, and will prepare students for their future. Using Top Hat with Interactive eText offers customizable content options for educators, while offering engaging content experiences for students. Our standalone Interactive eTexts are not customizable. They are either bundled with the Top Hat platform (Top Hat with Interactive eText) or purchased separately by students to use independently without having to pay to use our platform (Interactive eText).

Top Hat offers flexible pricing options for students depending on how long they will be using the platform. Generally, students pay for 1 term (4 months) or 1 year (12 months) depending on which courses they will be using Top Hat with. If an educator is using a Top Hat interactive textbook, students pay just one combined price for the platform and the textbook for that term. Find more information on our Pricing page.

Why educators and students love Top Hat.

“The Top Hat textbook material helped me build effective lessons that would engage and include my students who come from a variety of different backgrounds.”

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Department of Communication, Missouri State University

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“Only the Top Hat textbooks provided us with the level of detail we needed to get accreditation from the CPHR.”

Nisa Chand

MBA Assistant Professor, University of Canada West

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“Customizable content, a promise to improve student engagement and retention, a promise to reduce the cost of materials. It was all the things we needed at the right time.”

Dr. Nancy Legge

Professor, Communication, Media, and Persuasion, Idaho State University

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“There is something to be said for the fact that students are more enthusiastic and are exhibiting a more positive attitude towards the course materials.”

John Redden

Associate Professor, Physiology & Neurobiology, University of Connecticut and author of Anatomy and Physiology in Context

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“I believe you have to present information in three ways: the scientific and highly academic way, in layman’s terms with analogies, and the visual way with pictures. Top Hat lets me do all three.”

Stephanie Dillon

Director of Freshman Laboratories, Florida State University

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Not sure where to start? Try our catalog.

Make OER your own.

Give your content the treatment it deserves.

Explore our extensive catalog:

Actionable data for evolving teaching.

Tools for teaching, learning, and engaging.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why educators and students love Top Hat.

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