Top Hat is the Hayden-McNeil
alternative that puts you in
the driver’s seat of digital and print labs.

With Top Hat’s dynamic courseware, educators can create affordable digital and print lab manuals that can be personalized using the largest image library on the market.

What sets Top Hat apart:

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Content Variety
Lab coordinators can leverage content to complete their custom lab manual.
Build your perfect manual by picking and choosing content from a robust database of labs including the #1 selling lab manual on the market.
Image Selection
Provides in-house designers to help select images.
We have in-house services to help AND offer the largest library of images on the market, organized in an easy-to-use cloud database so you can pick what works best for your students.
Interactivity
Focuses on delivering custom print solutions. Digital offerings are essentially a static print reproduction.
Along with custom print solutions, Top Hat delivers a dynamic digital experience to make learning active and engaging for students—before and after the lab.
Labs & Lectures
Offers solutions for labs, but not lectures.
Top Hat's dynamic courseware has content and tools for both the lab and the lecture, so educators can rely on one tool for their course.

Content Variety

Build your perfect manual by picking and choosing content from a robust database of labs including the #1 selling lab manual on the market.

Lab coordinators can leverage content to complete their custom lab manual.

Image Selection

We have in-house services to help AND offer the largest library of images on the market, organized in an easy-to-use cloud database so you can pick what works best for your students.

Provides in-house designers to help select images.

Interactivity

Along with custom print solutions, Top Hat delivers a dynamic digital experience to make learning active and engaging for students—before and after the lab.

Focuses on delivering custom print solutions. Digital offerings are essentially a static print reproduction.

Labs & Lectures

Top Hat's dynamic courseware has content and tools for both the lab and the lecture, so educators can rely on one tool for their course.

Offers solutions for labs, but not lectures.

Make your lab manuals
your students' favorite tool.

Make your lab manuals
your students' favorite tool.

95%

of students approved of Top Hat as a tool for learning before and after class, and it motivated non-science majors to care about Chemistry.

*Educator Story

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Students get your
lab manual for life.

Learning doesn’t have to end when the course does. With Top Hat, students pay once to access a lab manual for life.

Students rate our mobile app 4.7 out of 5 stars

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"Top Hat made the course super fun and exciting!"

-Student from Arizona State University

Make labs look sharper than ever.

Our extensive library of high-quality scientific images lets you create a lab manual that is as accurate as it is engaging.

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Bring your lab to life.

On top of images, we offer a database of national and custom labs you choose from to create the manual you’ve always wanted for your students.

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