With Top Hat, student engagement isn’t a game. We give you the question types, the data, and the tools to build interactivity into your course, offering you the insights and flexibility you need to keep your students focused on learning.
Student Progress
Top Hat clearly captures each student’s assessment, attendance, and participation data in a gradebook that integrates directly with your LMS, making it easy to track progress in and outside of the classroom.
Kahoot! lets students use nicknames, making it difficult to connect results with individuals and track their progress over time.
Learning
With over 14 question types, Top Hat is the best Kahoot! alternative where students can better demonstrate their understanding of what they’ve learned. Chemistry response, graph response, and graded calculation questions make Top Hat easy to use in a wide variety of disciplines, including math and science. Educators can also use Ace, Top Hat’s AI-powered assistant, to instantly generate questions from their content.
Kahoot! has only nine question types.
Dynamic Content
Go beyond slides, captions, and PDF files to create a truly dynamic learning experience. Our flexible content tools and AI-powered question generation allow you to build or adapt interactive and media-rich assignments that you can tailor to fit your course. Discussions and activities can appear alongside content for a more integrated learning experience for your students. It’s easy to use software like Kahoot!, with more advanced functionality.
Kahoot! lets users create basic self-paced lessons built around PDFs, slides, captions, and questions.
LMS Integration
Unlike websites like Kahoot!, Top Hat delivers a smooth and consistent experience for faculty and students through seamless integrations with all major LMS providers, including Blackboard, Canvas, D2L Brightspace, Moodle and Sakai.
Kahoot! only offers learning management system integration with its institutional plans.
of students say Top Hat helped them feel engaged in the learning process.
*Top Hat Spring 2024 Student Survey. n=21,033 students
Average exam score for students who used Top Hat in a Business Analytics course*
*Read the full case study from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
of students recommend that their instructor use Top Hat again.*
*Top Hat Spring 2024 Student Survey. n=21,033 students
"Top Hat is the most engaging platform that I have ever used for classes. I would prefer to use Top Hat over other digital content (compared to Kahoot)."
-Student from Washington State 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.
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.
"The major thing that sets Top Hat apart from other teaching platforms is immediate feedback of students’ learning. I have seen students’ performance improve since I started using Top Hat."
Echu Liu
Associate Professor, Health Management and Policy, St. Louis University
“I used Kahoot! this past semester based on a recommendation from a colleague. I will NEVER use it again. Top Hat is by far the superior system. The immediate feedback and ease of use of the platform is definitely what sets Top Hat apart.”
Amanda Farmer
Lecturer, Accounting, University of Georgia
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Explore Top Hat’s dynamic courseware. We’re your partner in transforming student engagement—wherever and whenever learning takes place.
