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This Week's App: Top Hat


What is Top Hat?

Top Hat is a tool all about student engagement. It provides tools in the classroom that track attendance, ask questions, feature interactive slides, and manage classroom discussions.

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It allows you to integrate all of this seamlessly into your presentations to create a simple and engaging experience for your students. Not only does it allow you to create interactive content in your classroom, but you can create interactive content that can be put into courses online as well, like interactive textbooks and interactive lab content.

What can it be used for?

Top Hat can be used for both in-class content and online content for your students. The key is no matter what you do it is all about engaging your students and tracking that engagement. In the tool, you can...

  1. Run live polls and quizzes to assess understanding and track participation.
  2. Take attendance
  3. Assign online homework and review material
  4. Host interactive discussions, games, and tournaments
  5. Obtain anonymous feedback
  6. Automate grading
  7. Obtain interactive textbooks

With Top Hat, you can create active learning activities and formative assessments in your classroom or for online courses that can truly enhance the experience for your students. You can see examples of all their tools on the Top Hat Features page.

How do I get started?

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First, we recommend trying Top Hat for free. With a free account, you can create slide presentations, capture attendance, create discussions, and create polling questions. You can sign up for a Top Hat account at app.tophat.com/register/. From there explore recreating some of your presentations in the tool and adding some interactive features you can use.

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