Top Hat - Better Learning

Top Hat Corporation

About this app

Top Hat is the comprehensive assessment platform that helps you learn better before, during and after class. Top Hat makes learning fun and engaging (seriously!) and sets you up for success, helping you connect with your professors, your peers and the content you're learning in and out of the classroom.

Here's what Top Hat offers you:

Compelling resources, delivered on your smartphone or laptop

• Follow your prof's lecture slides on your own device
• Contribute in class with an easy-to-use response system that's always with you
• Participate with your profs and peers using in-app discussions

Affordable textbooks that keep education costs down

• Experience dynamic, interactive textbooks loaded up with images, videos, audio clips and more
• Learn from content tailored to your course with information that's kept up-to-date in real time
• Read your digital materials from anywhere and keep them forever

Quizzes, tests and polls that improve learning comprehension

• Challenge yourself by taking polls and quizzes on your own devices
• Improve your knowledge retention with interactive assessment elements
• Check for gaps in your understanding with graded and non-graded homework and short quizzes

Thanks for using Top Hat. As you experience the app, we'd love to get your feedback: [e-mail] or follow us on Instagram, Twitter or Facebook @TopHat

Ratings and reviews

I've taken a lot of online college coursework and this is my least favorite app so far. On mobile, the chapters bounce around and reload when you leave the app and come back. The embedded videos are not centered well and sometimes mess with navigation as well. There is no read aloud feature. On PC, you are not able to put the screen in dark mode, and there's no easy way to see which assignments are completed.

I really dont like the new update they did. In my class we use it as in class points for showing up which is good but we also use it as a study guide. With this new update it takes so long to go over one chapter because each chapter has it's own questions and you have to unduvuallly click in and out of the questions making it more time consuming. The older tophat app made one chapter a cohesive easy way to study and go through it all in one swoop.

The idea behind this app is cool. You can submit answers to quizzes or questions asked in a lecture anonymously, however this app is super buggy and sometimes the keyboard function doesn't work. Also, if you want to renew your subscription then you have to go through the website to do it because the app only let's you see when your subscription expires. It's pretty obvious that convenience and easy to use were ideas that were not thought of when this app was made.