Top Hat

Top Hat is a teaching and learning platform for higher education. Instructors use it to make lectures more active, and students use it for readings and study support.

What Top Hat offers

• In-class engagement — polls, quizzes and activities that encourage discussion and participation.
• Interactive textbooks — personalised content from its catalogue, including open educational resources, or custom materials.
• AI assistant — helps create assessments and gives students study support at any hour.
• Student insights — uses attendance, engagement, reading and assessment data to find learning gaps.
• LMS connection — links to learning management systems with synced grades.

Who it works with

Colleges and universities. Its website says more than 1,200 institutions use the platform, and its older profile cited use by millions of students across North America.

Key facts

• Sector: higher education
• Institutions: more than 1,200
• Integration: learning management systems