Top Hat Resources Guide

What is Top Hat?

Top Hat is an engagement platform that empowers educators to incorporate active learning into every area of their course. This guild provides links to help articles, training videos, and Top Hat Support.

Log in to Top Hat here: https://app.tophat.com/login

Top Hat Platform Training is Always On

Our series of live and on-demand webinars are designed to help faculty bring active learning to your course—and get comfortable using the features of the Top Hat platform. Watch on-demand or sign up for live webinars here.

Need help?

Get in touch with Top Hat’s support team:

• Live chat in Top Hat’s platform: Find it next to your name, in the top right corner of your screen
• Phone: 1-888-663-5491 (Monday to Friday 9 AM–9 PM EST)
• Email: support@tophat.com
• Support Center: Website

Ready to use the integration in your course? Follow these steps to get started.

1. Set up your Top Hat course
2. Connect your Blackboard course to Top Hat
3. Learn about automatic roster sync
4. Create deep links
5. Learn about automatic grade sync
6. Include information in your syllabus about how to get started
7. Connect your Canvas Course, Deeplinking, Roster and Grade Syncing

Resources

Getting started for instructors

• Quick Start Guides
  • Create Your Account and Course(s)
  • Navigating Your Course(s)
  • Create Content
  • Create a sample student account (see what your students will see)
  • Enroll Your Students
  • Present Your Content
  • Student Participation
  • Take Attendance
  • Gradebook
• Videos
  • If you have 5 minutes…
    • Creating Questions
    • Presenting in Top Hat
    • Taking Attendance
    • Assigning content
    • Top Hat Assessment Space (creating tests) (video is embedded)
  • If you have 30 minutes…
    • Introduction to Top Hat
    • Using Top Hat Pages to flip the class or teach asynchronous courses
  • If you have 1 to 2 hours…
    • Top Hat Summer Camp: Recordings from a virtual event in July 2022, with panel discussions on Inclusive Pedagogy and Interactive Content, as well as deep dives into Top Hat functionality
    • Top Hat Certification: Hands-on training to learn the fundamentals of Active Learning and Top Hat, delivered in Top Hat.

Top Hat Interactive Textbooks

• Top Hat Catalog

Anonymous Guest Access Courses

• Are you attending a professional conference or need to do interactive polling outside of class and don't want to set up student accounts for participants? Contact Top Hat Support for information about Guest Access.
  
  

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