Top Hat

Top Hat's advanced Canvas integration allows professors to sync grading and class roster information between the two systems. The integration is designed to ease student registration and on-boarding, and to allow professors to easily send grades from Top Hat into Canvas.Take attendance, present slides, host discussions, give homework, assign interactive readings and run tests—and do it all in one place.

  • Available to:  Faculty, Staff, and Students
  • Where to use: Online
  • Cost: Free with some paid components

Top Hat is a Canvas LIT geared towards seamlessly helping instructors and students in the classroom and beyond.

Top Hat allows you to do the following:

  • Foster collaboration, critical thinking, and community by posing questions and discussion prompts students can answer on any device.
  • Keep your students engaged with 14 question types, including click-on-target, word answer, and multiple-choice, and immediately see how they’re responding.
  • Make homework a learning experience with interactive assignments and multimedia. Formative and summative assessments put students’ knowledge to the test.
  • Automate attendance in any in-person or online course and get instant insights to help at-risk students.