What is Top Hat?
Top Hat is an engagement platform that empowers educators to incorporate active learning into every area of their course. Top Hat is integrated with ELMS-Canvas and is available for use in your courses.
Instructors use Top Hat during class to drive discussions, take live polls, and give students real-time feedback on how well they understand course concepts. Outside of class, Top Hat enables instructors to adopt and personalize interactive content, assignments, and assessments.
Top Hat Features
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- Student Response & Assessment
- Discussions: Foster collaboration, critical thinking and community by posing questions and discussion prompts students can answer on any device.
- Polls & Quizzes: Keep your students engaged with 14 question types, including click-on-target, word answer and multiple choice, and immediately see how they’re responding.
- Assignments & Exams: Make homework a learning experience with interactive assignments and multimedia. Our formative and summative assessments put students’ knowledge to the test.
- Automatic Attendance: Automate attendance in any in-person or online course and get instant insights to help at-risk students.
- Personalizable Content
- Pages Content Editor: Create interactive, personalized content that reflects your students and community.
- Customizable Textbooks: Packed with interactive features and the ability to edit, Top Hat textbooks take dynamic learning to a new level.
- Interactive Labs: Adopt and personalize virtual lab manuals with interactive diagrams, animations, and video demos.
- Educator Tools & Insights
- Real-Time Data: Top Hat creates actionable insights from attendance, quiz, poll, assignment and test data, so you can improve learning in the moment and over time.
- Accessibility: Our dynamic courseware is designed to meet or exceed internationally recognized accessibility standards and offers flexible options for individual students.Top Hat also offers services such as group training, individual consultation, and instructional design support to help faculty achieve their desired course outcomes.
Service comparison of Top Hat and other solutions
View Top Hat's comparison to competitors information. Other polling solutions such as Echo 360/PointSolutions/Clickers remains integrated within ELMS-Canvas. If you wish to use any other solution that is not currently integrated in ELMS-Canvas, please contact itsupport@umd.edu to initiate a security and compliance review.
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