Top Hat Review

Build An Engaging And Interactive Learning Environment

Top Hat is equipped with a tool that enables teachers to build an interactive learning environment, make classroom management activities a breeze, manage educational content and materials online, and evaluate student performance instantly. Let us explore these capabilities of the tool and find out how they move learning to the next level.

Learning should always be a two-way process. This means professors and teachers must be able to deliver the educational content that their students need and students, in turn, should consume it in such a way that they are inspired and motivated to learn. Top Hat’s classroom management tool is designed to build a learning environment where students can actively involve themselves in the learning process, giving them the opportunity to join in classroom discussions right straight from their own devices. They can comfortably voice out their opinions and thoughts about a lecture without the need to reveal their identities, vote on the responses of other students, and even respond using drawings.

Deliver Synchronous Learning Experiences

The classroom management tool ensures that all students are on the same page during classroom discussions and lectures, making learning a synchronous experience. The tool can synchronize lecture slides between the teacher’s device and student’s devices so that all students are able to consume the same educational materials and contents and follow along in real-time. Teachers can also collect responses from students in the middle of discussions and evaluate those responses to correct misconceptions. Students can download lecture slides and review them at home as well.

Consolidates All Learning Materials In One Place

Top Hat’s class management tool consolidates all educational resources and materials in one place. This capability makes it easy for teachers to prepare and customize lessons, multiple interactive types of questions, lecture slides, presentations, and other learning materials, which they can do online.

Automates Daily Classroom Routines

The tool also automates the daily routines teachers are performing in the classroom such as checking students’ attendance, grading quizzes, and monitoring the performance and progress of students. For example, the tool permits students to confirm their attendance by logging into their devices and entering unique codes. The tool can even track the current locations of students so that teachers can verify if a student is present in class or not.

Assess The Performance Of Your Students Automatically

When it comes to grading, the tool enables teachers to set up their own grading system wherein they will be able to add grading weights to interactive questions, students’ participation, and attendance automatically. They no longer have to apply scores and grades manually, as the tool can instantly take care of that. When students want to view their grades online, they can do that easily on any device at any time.

A Tool For Creating And Delivering Digital Textbooks

Another tool built into Top Hat is a tool that it allows teachers to create interactive and engaging textbooks and other learning materials. This is a unique authoring tool that eliminates the need to use paper textbooks. In other words, students no longer need to purchase textbooks from bookstores or the university’s supply department, thereby helping them reduce costs. With this tool, teachers will be able to create textbooks online and customize them by adding interactive questions, animations, and videos, permitting them to deliver textbook experiences that inspire and motivate students to learn. In addition, Top Hat has a marketplace where digital textbooks and learning materials from various authors are posted. Most of these textbooks and learning materials can be accessed and used by students for free.

Personalized Assignments That Make Learning Inspirational And Motivational

Top Hat provides a tool that allows teachers to create, customize and personalize, and deliver assignments to students instantly. Like textbooks, assignments can also be customized using graphical and interactive elements which include videos, images, website links, and question packages. Teachers can customize assignments in various ways so that they can deliver personalized learning experiences to their students and inspire and motivate them to learn. For instance, the tool enables them to add comments to assignments in order for students to understand concepts better. When it comes to delivering assignments to students, teachers can set criteria for routing assignments to specific students or groups of students. Students won’t have a hard time accessing these assignments, as they are immediately delivered to their own devices.

Create, Administer, And Grade Tests Instantly

Creating, administering, and grading quizzes, tests, and exams using Top Hat is also automated. This is because the education software offers a tool exclusively built for managing tests. With this tool, teachers will be able to create tests in just a matter of few minutes. Once they are done creating tests, they can deliver such tests to students securely via a web browser. What’s great about this tool is that it has mechanisms that identify and prevent cheating behaviors. It uses proprietary algorithms to detect students that are cheating on their tests and locks those students out. The tool, furthermore, automates the process of grading tests. Test scores and grades are automatically uploaded to the software’s grade book. As a result, this makes it very easy for teachers to monitor and assess the performance and progress of their students