Blackboard vs. Top Hat
Blackboard
Blackboard is a learning management system (LMS) that is optimized for distance learning and collaboration. Used in higher learning institutions, Blackboard provides instructors and students with access to teaching and learning resources.
Top Hat
Top Hat is an end-to-end teaching platform that helps students and professors engage before, during and after class by emphasizing collaboration and active learning. With Top Hat you can:
- Seamlessly integrate with Blackboard
- Securely take attendance
- Gauge student comprehension
- Adopt and customize affordable, interactive textbooks
Blackboard alternative? Here’s how we compare:
More question types
More question types
Multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, click-on-targets—Top Hat offers a wealth of interactive questions
Secure attendance
Secure attendance
Top Hat’s proximity-based solution tracks attendance in class
Large community
Large community
Over 16,000 professors and
three million students already use Top Hat
Easy account creation
Easy account creation
For both students and professors, Top Hat is popular because it’s easy to use
Hybrid connectivity
Hybrid connectivity
Top Hat offers support through mobile, web and even SMS texting
Trackable engagement
Trackable engagement
Top Hat’s graded, interactive questions reveal which concepts to reinforce
LMS integration
LMS integration
It’s easy to measure student participation when integrating Top Hat with your LMS
Customizable content
Customizable content
Top Hat allows you to tailor content to suit the needs of your class
Create your perfect course with Top Hat’s all-in-one teaching platform
Classroom
Leverage students’ devices to increase in-class engagement and get real-time feedback
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Before class
Textbook
Adopt and customize affordable, interactive textbooks, or create your own
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During class
Classroom
Leverage students’ devices to increase in-class engagement and get real-time feedback
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Elevate your teaching skills by integrating Top Hat with your Blackboard LMS
Top Hat’s innovative Blackboard LMS integration allows professors to sync grading and course data, leverage the functionality of Blackboard in a physical classroom setting and employ a variety of poll question types online or in a classroom of any size.
Top Hat also provides unparalleled support and concierge services to professors—a service unmatched by learning management systems like Blackboard.
See what these professors have to say about Top Hat
“I created my Top Hat digital textbook to complement how I teach. It’s now an integral part of my class.”
Matt Numer
Professor, School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University
“My students already have their phones in their hands, so why not turn that into something useful?”
Lorna Profant
Lecturer, Department of Biology, California State University
“Top Hat makes my lectures more provocative, more dynamic and more effective, and that’s why I use it.”
Patrice Dutil
Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Ryerson University
Frequently asked questions
Of course. With instructional designers and 24/7 support, we can integrate Top Hat with your current LMS.
Two million students and thousands of professors across 750 campuses use Top Hat every semester.
Round the clock support, for students and professors with dedicated on-boarders and training personnel assigned to every professor.
One term costs students $26; for professors it’s free.