Training Workshops
Top Hat SkillBuild
Top Hat SkillBuild is a series of live and on-demand training workshops designed to help you bring active learning to your course—and get you comfortable using Top Hat's most impactful features.
Activation Session: Introduction to Top Hat
In this introduction to Top Hat, you'll learn how to use our platform to engage your students before, during and after class. This session focuses on the key building blocks for creating a successful active learning experience for your students, in both synchronous and asynchronous learning environments. Learn how to navigate the platform, create interactive Top Hat content and digitally deliver that material in class.
After this session, you'll know how to:
- Create interactive Top Hat questions that make students active participants in class and give you immediate insights into student comprehension
- Track comprehension and engagement
- Effectively deliver course content synchronously
- Assign content for asynchronous learning
30
minutes
Who's this session for?
Educators who are either new to Top Hat or need a refresher on the platform's features.
Level Up: Building Dynamic Content
In this session, you'll see how our Top Hat Pages feature makes it easy to personalize your course for more relevant, inclusive, and current learning. We also explore ways you can extend engagement outside of the classroom with content tailored to your students.
After this session, you'll know how to:
- Create and customize a Top Hat course
- Add relevant and engaging interactive and multimedia elements to your Top Hat course
- Understand the full scope of Top Hat questions and discussions, and how to implement them into your teaching
30
minutes
Who's this session for?
Educators who want to enhance their Top Hat experience with interactive and multimedia elements
Level Up: Gradebook
This session is a deep dive on the capabilities and functions of the Top Hat Gradebook. You'll learn how to navigate the Gradebook and customize it to suit your specific needs and preferences. You'll also learn how to manually adjust and input grades and attendance to keep track of student success. We'll cover Gradebook reports for questions, assignments and indivdual students, allowing you to take full advantage of the data collected in the Gradebook.
In this session, you'll learn how to:
- Read the Gradebook and adjust advanced settings for an optimal course experience
- Edit grades and enter manual grades as necessary
- Discern course-wide trends in student comprehension
30
minutes
Who's this session for?
Educators who want to learn more about the capabilities of the Top Hat Gradebook
Teaching and Learning with Top Hat Ace
This session is an overview of Ace, Top Hat's AI assistant. You'll learn how to harness the power of Ace to enhance your lectures and course content with the click of a button. You'll also learn how students can use Ace to help study and self-assess asynchronously.
In this session, you'll learn how to:
- Create Ace-generated questions in slide decks and pages
- Discuss the use of AI in education with your students
- Guide your students through using Ace to study and self-assess
30
minutes
Who's this session for?
Educators who are interested in unlocking the power of AI in their teaching
Interactive OpenStax in Top Hat
This session takes a deep dive into using Top Hat's Interactive OpenStax texts. You'll learn about the features and functions of Interactive OpenStax texts, as well as how to take advantage of Top Hat's interactive elements to foster an affordable and equitable active learning environment.
In this session, you'll learn how to:
- Navigate and customize a Top Hat Interactive OpenStax text
- Create and foster an equitable and affordable active learning environment
- Use Top Hat to track engagement, allowing you to support ongoing student success
30
minutes
Who's this session for?
Educators who are concerned about affordability and accessibility, but still want to provide a personalized and modern digital learning environment
Online Assessment & Remote Testing
From formative quizzes to high-stakes exams, Top Hat makes it simple to create, manage, and deliver assessments. This session begins with an overview of effective formative and summative assessment strategies using digital course tools. Viewers will then learn about Top Hat’s unmonitored and monitored testing options.
By watching this session, you will be able to:
- Manage the entire assessment process—from creation to deployment to grading—all in one place
- Understand the difference between open book and monitored assessments with Top Hat
- Apply best practices before, during and after your test for a successful experience
30
minutes
Who's this on-demand session for?
Educators who are new to creating online assessments, as well as those who are new to Top Hat
Top Hat’s Five Pillars of Dynamic Courseware & Learning Design
In this session, we cover Top Hat’s five pillars of a dynamic course, and introduce (or refresh!) viewers on Top Hat’s approach to learning and instructional design. What does a good course look like with Top Hat? How can I redesign some activities or lessons in my course to make use of Top Hat’s capabilities? Viewers will learn how to approach designing their course in-line with the same foundations of learning science that inform Top Hat interactive content.
By watching this session, you will be able to:
- Decide which learning design pillars are most relevant to your course goals
- Apply at least one of Top Hat’s Five Pillars of Dynamic Courseware in your course design
- Identify measures and changes that you will use to track the impact of your changes and learning design
20
minutes
Who's this on-demand session for?
Educators who are new to Top Hat or are familiar with Top Hat but want to experiment and integrate new teaching techniques in their courses
Top Hat Certification: Foundations of Active Learning
Join us for an interactive Top Hat Certification session where you’ll learn the fundamentals of bringing active learning to life with Top Hat. We’ll go in-depth on how to use Top Hat to motivate students, get real-time feedback, and enable you to teach with insight before, during, and after class.
By attending this session, you will be able to:
- Use Top Hat to create a custom assignment for your course that embeds media and interactive questions in your assignments
- Design presentations that will enable active learning during class with Top Hat questions, discussions, and frequent formative assessments
- Interpret the data in your gradebook to make decisions in real time about course content, and how best to support student learning
- Plus, you’ll earn your Top Hat Certification badge & certificate!
1
hour attendance
Who's this live training for?
Educators who are already familiar with Top Hat and want to expand the impact of Top Hat before, during, and after class. This is a mark of distinction for Top Hat professors and innovative educators!