Top Hat’s dynamic courseware empowers educators to move beyond classroom clickers and connect with students through interactive assessments, discussions, and readings that help them demonstrate their learning in different ways.
Engagement
Unlike classroom clickers, Top Hat lets educators engage their students wherever learning takes place. Add questions, polls, and discussions to readings, review materials, and other content that students can interact with in class or on their own time.
iClicker offers asynchronous polls and quizzes for students to respond to outside of class.
Learning
With over 14 question types, Top Hat encourages students to think of what they’ve learned and apply it in different ways. Educators can also use Ace, Top Hat’s AI-powered assistant, to instantly generate questions from their content. Clickers for classrooms can only go so far.
iClicker offers polling with only five question types.
Controlled Quizing
With Top Hat, the questions you create are stored on our platform. They can be used to assess students in formative, low-stakes, and high-stakes settings, while you stay in control of custom due dates for your class and individual students.
iClicker’s low-stakes quizzing allows instructors to ask questions to students outside the platform. This makes it difficult for students to look at quiz results when they study.
Direct Support
Top Hat’s best-in-class support staff guide faculty every step of the way, from creating your course to building mid-semester check-ins and assessments. One-to-one onboarding, instructional design expertise and 24/7 technical assistance ensure you’re ready to deliver transformative learning experiences.
Some iClicker users have found it difficult to set up and use.
Personalized assignments that
engage students wherever they learn.
Personalized assignments that
engage students wherever they learn.
of students say Top Hat helped them feel engaged in the learning process.
*Top Hat Spring 2024 Student Survey. n=21,033 students
Top Hat can be used on a variety of devices to make learning equitable and available for everyone. Plus, we designed our platform with accessibility top of mind, making it compatible with screen readers and offering keyboard navigation.
"I liked the ability to participate in class without having to raise my hand or speak out. Using Top Hat was easy and efficient to help my learning experience."
-Student from Northern Arizona University
Top Hat provides unparalleled support to professors. We offer market-leading concierge service to convert your existing content into the Top Hat platform, while a dedicated instructional designer can help ensure you meet your course goals and ease your class prep.
We offer seamless integrations with all major LMS providers including Blackboard, Canvas, D2L Brightspace, Moodle and Sakai. The Top Hat gradebook houses digital interactions between instructors and students, including results from attendance, quizzes, tests, assignments, and participation, and is available in your LMS from the moment each semester begins.
"Molecular biology is highly abstract and if students don’t get concepts early, it’s hard to catch up. Now, the classroom conversation is better and motivation is much higher because students remember the materials from the week prior."
Sue Ellen Dechenne-Peters
Assistant Professor of Biology at Georgia Southern University
(Top Hat Educator Story)
"[Top Hat is] better than a clicker and easier to access. [I like] the ability to watch class presentations and answer class questions simultaneously."
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